so despite being a librarian, i read very few books. i get most of my information from blogs, magazines, journals, podcasts, and talking to people (some of whom are writing books). some days i think this is a huge failure on my part, and i remember hearing something about multitaskers actually being unable to focus [...]

it’s getting to that time of year when MLIS students are spending more time working on their CVs and cover letters than on their coursework (note: get’er done guys). one aspect of the interview will certainly be a presentation (which can vary in length – i’ve heard of 5 minute quickies to 60 minute instructional [...]

the Emerging Tech Interest Group of CLA (which i co-convene with the truly awesome Amanda Etches-Johnson) is hosting a library-camp-style pre-conference at CLA in May (in the best city on earth – Montréal).
Jessamyn West (yes THE Jessamyn West of librarian.net) will kick-off our day with a keynote on emerging technologies, followed by two sessions on [...]

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 [...]

such as present at a workshop where you’re on the slate with seasoned veterans like Stephen Abram and Michael Stephens.
i would say that i am fairly comfortable presenting in front of a group. we do a lot of teaching at my branch, so i have had a lot of practice explaining somewhat complicated things to [...]

this story came through my RSS reader courtesy of the lovely Sarah Hougthon-Jan (the Librarian in Black).
last summer the folks at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre created a team to address innovation within the organization. the results of the analysis were presented in the form of a video, which was shown to managers last month. one [...]

sometimes print really is better. (Photo credit: inju at www.flickr.com/photos/35468141938@N01/112082907)
CBC’s Spark (i love Nora Young!) had a recent episode discussing the value of offline formats of communication: basically, stuff printed on dead trees.
hearing about Ben Tennett’s project Things Our Friends Have Written on the Internet, where he selected blog posts and published them as a [...]

Michael Franti released a new tune in honour of Barack Obama

hellz ya.
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no one tagged me but we all know how much i love a bandwagon – there’s a meme going around…
here are seven things you might not know about me.

i can sing the alphabet backward as easily as i can forward. i was a bored child and took to reading books backward once i had read [...]

actually becoming a business librarian. sure i like to play with emerging tech and figure out how to use it in my library, but i plan on spending 2009 developing my knowledge  of business databases. Bloomberg, Datastream and WRDS – i will master you!
The Trotsky a movie written and directed by a friend from high [...]