Stephen Abram came to speak at McGill and the SLA Eastern Canada Chapter and rocked the house.
he wore an awesome tie.
key points from his chats:

reciprocal mentoring: the concept that newer librarians have skills to share with established librarians. love this concept. share share share people!
the concepts of victimization and risk aversion have become part of [...]

this is the LAST CALL for the Emerging Leaders issue of Library Student Journal – get off your butts and nominate someone!
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LAST CALL for emerging leaders in the LIS student community
Library Student Journal (www.librarystudentjournal.org) believes that
LIS students have new and exciting ideas. We see information needs in
new places (and new worlds). We can, and [...]

photo credit: jambina
think my prof will believe that my assignment is late because my cat is impeding my highlighting capabilities?
ya, me neither.
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today i helped some folks who live in countries where a lot of news is censored, find quality information to answer their immediate needs.
Amy Kearns had an idea a few weeks back about having a 24 hour “twitter librarian” that would answer questions shot into the twittersphere.
Metafilter offers similar reference services (tho not answered specifically [...]

my LIS friends at Université de Montréal (who blog here) pointed to a truly hilarious video by Têtes à Claques about a monsieur visiting a library, looking for a “magazine with pictures of the human body”
guess what he was really looking for… ; )
the video is in French, naturellement.
and please don’t ask me to [...]

*over the past few months i’ve discovered oh-so-many blogs and podcasts that i consider required reading/listening. i’m going to try and blog weekly about one of them and why i think LIS students – hell, even regular library-folk – ought to check them out.*
Uncontrolled Vocabulary is “A weekly live interactive roundtable discussion of all things [...]

for those of you unaware of who Stephen Abram is, he’s the president of the Special Libraries Assocation and has an oh-so-fun blog (Stephen’s Lighthouse).
(as an aside, i attended the SLA conference in baltimore just prior to beginning my MLIS and it confirmed my decision to go into the LIS field. i still have all [...]

i’ve just finished reading all the Movers & Shakers profiles.
my RSS feeder is now wonderfully full with the blogs of exciting folk in the LIS community.
so fortunate.
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… except that i haven’t actually filmed the movie yet.
i’m a bit in awe to be included in the list of Movers & Shakers.
i can’t believe i’m on the same list as these people – all of whom i look up to for the amazing work they’ve done in the LIS field.
as for me, well, [...]

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