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  • The Future of Reference: Students Helping Students?

    Circulation Desk, originally uploaded by qbfianchetto. This week I participated in a discussion about the future of reference services in academic libraries. We talked about chat reference and how it has expanded the service we can provide. I think everybody was pretty much in agreement that it’s been a good thing for the service we…

  • LibPunk! What’s that?

    Golf Punk, originally uploaded by bugmancx. Sarah Glassmeyer, a hero of mine, recently blogged, as she is wont to do, about LibPunkRockStars. What the hell is a LibPunkRockStar? If you haven’t read her post, do it right now. I particularly like her analysis of the rockstar librarian phenomenon. This is my favourite part: Okay, check…

  • State DOTs and Social Networking

    This post might be very boring to the library folks, but this is what I do. I’m a transportation librarian, so I think about transportation stuff. One thing that I’m interested in is how transportation agencies use social networking to share information. This is why I started MashTrans, because it was clear that people were…

  • Brace Yourself Anyway You Can

    coffee, water, you know, originally uploaded by kendrak. It’s weird… it seems like something the past few months happened at work, and now I’m at some sort of critical mass where every other day I have a “call.” When you work on national committees and projects, you no longer have meetings, you have calls. Conference…

  • SLA is SLA, now let’s move on.

    do nawt eated meh, originally uploaded by Todd Barnard. Yesterday polls closed on the election to change the name of SLA to Association of Strategic Knowledge Professionals. From the press release: The Special Libraries Association (SLA) announced the results of its association-wide vote on a new name today. Voting in record numbers, SLA members failed…