Category: SLA

  • Speak up. Create Action.

    One of my favourite albums in high school was The Decibels‘ Create Action. (They had a brief reunion in 2013. You might be able to see me dancing to their cover of “That’s When Happiness Began” by the Grains of Sand in this video.) The title track, “Create Action”, is a good anthem of actually…

  • SLA: Speak up, I can’t hear you.

    flickr photo shared by Ape Lad under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-ND ) license Update: On 21 May, 2015 SLA signed on to the COAR statement. Way to go, SLA! This morning an announcement hit my inbox from ARL about a number of library groups denouncing Elsevier’s new sharing and hosting policy.  (I wrote about it…

  • Get ready for SLA BOSTON!

    In June the SLA Annual Conference is taking over Boston. To get ready I made this playlist.  Listen and weep.

  • #SLAleads Tips (not just for first timers)

    SLA Leadership is next week in Memphis. I’m excited about it because Memphis is the home of Stax, Sun, and Goner records. I’m also excited because I get to hang out with the new crop of SLA leaders and get energized for the association. For newer SLA leaders (or not), here are just a few…

  • #hardtech slides and notes from #sla2013

    Last week Amy Buckland and presented at SLA2013 about hardcore technology. People keep asking us for the slides and notes, and through the power of GoogleDocs you can have ’em all! (Seriously, we love doing this stuff in GDocs because it’s easy to use from anywhere and even easier to share.) The Slides. The Notes.…