Electing a US President in Plain English
It's no secret that I love the In Plain English videos, so I'm sharing the newest one, even though this is a bit off topic. Rg] Read more [...] ...
Archive for July, 2008
What advice do you have for an aspiring librarian?
Last week as I was writing for the Day in the Life Project I got an email from Shannon asking for professional advice, since I'm not a School Librarian, I feel ill equipped to give it. Instead I suggested that I post the questions on my blog for other librarians to answer. I know we're a really ...
Using a wiki for Reader’s Advisory
One of the first things we started when I came to MRRL was create online Reader's Advisory lists for patrons. We've used a couple of different services for this in the last 3 years, but they cost money and were controlled by outside vendors. Earlier this year I was looking for funding to be able to add some new ...
Day in the life of a librarian – Summary
As of writing this (10:30 am central time 7/19/08 ) there are over 30 people signed up on the wiki (thank you again Lori for having the smarts to make one!) I hope this can be an ongoing project with new people continuing to sign up and maybe people who participated now can do it ...
Friday & Saturday – days in the life of a librarian
Friday Technically I'm off because I work this coming weekend. I cleaned the apartment, cooked, went to the gym. I also check all email accounts and see a request from one of the other Librarians, she needs someone to cover the Reference Desk for her Monday, I was planning on taking Monday off, but I tell ...