i’m very excited to be giving my first Click U workshop at the upcoming SLA conference in Washington, DC.
Click University — Informing Avatars: Exploring the Possibilities of Virtual Worlds
Through a hands-on workshop, participants will have the opportunity to learn about the possibilities of virtual worlds, enter Second Life to create an avatar, and explore [...]

just arrived at CiL after a pretty bumpy ride on what must have been air canada’s teeniest plane.
off to a good start as i finally got to meet the awesome Karen Schneider while waiting for our shuttle to the hyatt.
this time last year, i was still in school and decided, on one crazy afternoon, to [...]

it’s Ada Lovelace Day (go read about her, i’ll wait) and i (along with 1694 other folk) pledged to blog about a tech heroine. so i started doing some research. then more research. and though i did uncover a lot of awesome women who have done amazing things, none of them  were just right.
and then [...]

In order to be really good as a librarian, everything counts towards your work, every play you go see, every concert you hear, every trip you take, everything you read, everything you know. I don’t know of another occupation like that. The more you know, the better you’re going to be. – Allen Smith, PhD
i [...]

so the excellent folks of LSW (especially Steve & Josh) have decided that though Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers list is a great way to get the word out about awesome things folks are doing (and you know, i ain’t gonna knock it), there are even more folks out there doing things that are worthy [...]