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  • Living with an ILS – it’s like the New World Order

    new world order, originally uploaded by wasteddaylight. I don’t know why recently, but I’ve been making lots of jokes about New World Order (NWO). It’s been long enough that most people just go, “Huh?” or “Ha. That.” This morning, while being trained on some ILS stuff, it sort of hit me that my little library…

  • Not all of us can be the Best: How to measure your impact?

    George Best #1, originally uploaded by sahmeepee. I’m trying to follow Sarah Glassmeyer’s advice and start working my horrible Association Football analogies and metaphors into my library writing. (Soccer to the most of you.) First I wast thinking about spinning Stanley Matthews into one. He was a vegetarian teetotaller and class-act. Instead, I’m going to…

  • LibraryCamp Monterey – You better be there!

    LibraryCamp Monterey, originally uploaded by Jenica26. So you know how I was talking about being a bad conference atendee and not really learning/participating? Part of it is because I get bored when people talk at me and not with me. Anyhow, one of my favourite, and most valuable, experiences at IL2009 was LibraryCamp Monterey. I…

  • Conferences – Are you there to learn, schmooze, or chill?

    20100123-don-nelson-3, originally uploaded by djbelc01. The HR Capitalist recently wrote a post titled Conference Session Attendance and Who Really Matters. He used a picture of Don Nelson because: 1 – Nellie was just released by the Warriors. (As a tacit Warriors fan, I can’t help but have a soft spot for him.) 2 – Nellie…

  • How did you use the library for research? (Or what’s up with the kids?)

    blue haired with a knife, originally uploaded by kendrak. It’s that time of the semester here at MPOW, where we get the students coming in with their end of term research topics. (Instruction ends Friday.) Here’s a fairly typical interaction: Me: Hello, can I help you with something? Student: I need peer-reviewed resources about the…