It’s Friday, and more than that: it’s the last day of the semester! This particular semester has been a bit of a slog, and I’m not sure why. It’s possibly because I’m becoming more involved in more initiatives, both here on campus and in the wider librarianship community, that pull me in disparate directions. These [...]
Hi folks! I’ve got a real post in the pipeline for Monday, but it’s not quite fully germinated yet. So in the mean time, get a load of this objectively adorable three-year-old: Stay tuned Monday for thrills, chills, excitement, and lesson plans: I promise!
March 15, 2010 – 11:52 am
It’s that time of year again: Library Journal has just released its list of “Movers and Shakers” for 2010. This year, the Library Society of the World (better link here) was well represented, with Movers & Shakers Maurice Coleman, Matt Hamilton, Jason Puckett, and Andy Woodworth. But most notably for the LSW, our very own [...]
January 8, 2010 – 1:10 pm
Inspired by Steve Lawson’s post, which was in turn inspired by John Scalzi’s post: When I was in elementary school, I read a book called There’s a Rainbow In My Closet that made me want to paint, and paint, and paint. I checked it out of the library a bazillion times, and read it many [...]
December 15, 2009 – 9:03 am
Things have been pretty quiet around here lately: actual in-class instruction has been done for several weeks now, but we’ve got a lot of projects cooking on various back burners. We’re going to be doing usability testing on the new library website in January, so we’re getting geared up for that, and I’m working on [...]
September 25, 2009 – 12:28 pm
My husband, Chris Cobb, wrote to me recently: I was twigged to a most exciting (for a medievalist, that is) news story last evening that I wanted to pass along to you, just because. It was announced today that the largest Anglo-Saxon hoard ever discovered has recently been found in Staffordshire, England. It is several [...]
September 6, 2009 – 8:20 pm
There’s a really nasty worm out there that’s attacking WordPress blogs, so if you’ve got one, and you’re a lazy bum like me and haven’t upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (2.8.4), please do so!
Part the First: Adventures in Library Instruction So I finally got around to listening to the first episode of the “Adventures in Library Instruction” podcast, and the first thing I have to say is, “woo hoo to Jason, Rachel, and Anna for putting this together!” There is seriously not enough going on in the library/web/blogo-2.0-sphere [...]
One of the things about being really late to this here “blogging” thing is that you miss out on a bunch of good memes. There have been several that I’ve wanted to join in on, but didn’t have a platform from which to join. Now I have that platform, but the memes are long gone. [...]
Things I plan to do at Computers In Libraries 2009 that have nothing to do with computers or libraries: Take a shower with neither a toddler nor a baby monitor in the bathroom with me. Eat breakfast sitting down. Sleep past 6:30 am. Eat a meal at a restaurant with cloth napkins and tablecloths. Think [...]
