Category: SLA

  • Staying posi: How I learned to care in a different way.

    STAY POSI!, originally uploaded by bradwenner.com. I want to start off with an apology. I am sorry that 95% of my cultural references are either from punk or soccer. It’s really all I got. Today it’s posi. This post was inspired by this LSW FF discussion which was inspired by this Agnostic Maybe blog post.…

  • Conference Reflections and Projections

    Tonight I read Tara Murray’s post The After Conference, which suggests ways to continue some of the threads of discussion and follow the ideas of the conference. She also gives a nod to the wonderful Eileen Boswell, the Embedded Librarian. This has been a weird day for me because I’m still mentally processing and thinking…

  • Gov Docs online – can you trust them?

    This is something that only until recently started keeping me up at night. My LibPunk partner in crime, Sarah Glassmeyer, raised the issue with me once and it took me a second to get what she was saying. I mean, I understand why the legal community cares about the authenticity of an online document as…

  • The job market sucks, how are you supposed to compete?

    Imagine my surprise today when I was catching up on my HR blogs when I see a post from Ask A Manager featuring a question from a recent LIS grad. Of course this is a tired topic on library blogs (I know I’ve talked about it a lot from many different angles), but to see…

  • Collaboration and Teamwork – practice makes perfect.

    España campeona del mundo, originally uploaded by www.valenciaclubdefutbol.blogia.com. So the 2010 World Cup ended this past Sunday and I’m going through withdrawals. (I am a bit fanatical about football/soccer. I’m card carrying member of Wednesdayite, that’s seriously a burden of love.) So pardon me, if I use a picture of La Furia Roja to illustrate…