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Show Your Support, Donate

April 24, 2012
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Show Your Support, Donate

UPDATE 5/1/2012 We have reached the goal! Thank you so much to everyone who donated! I will be at ALA 2012 thanks to your support and generosity! Making the decision to write this post was hard for me, after all I love NPR but pledge drive time drives me a little crazy especially after I’ve donated and it keeps going. But I understand why they do it and I wouldn’t have it any other ways. So, I’m going to be a little self-indulgent. A couple of weeks ago I realized I wouldn’t be able to make the trip to Anaheim for ALA. Some health issues, nothing life threatening, but expensive nevertheless have used up the money I had set aside. In a moment of wistful thinking I tweeted that if each of my twitter followers donated 50 cents I’d be able to go to ALA (and then some). John Jackson who writes the Ink & Vellum blog took the idea and ran with it. I was a little embarrassed but mostly humbled that he and others would think it worthwhile to donate to send me to ALA.  Donations have been coming in, about $300 right now. Then some more good news

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Books: A Love Letter

July 19, 2011
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Books: A Love Letter

I don’t write about books here. Not really. I write about ebooks and technology and the future of libraries (which may or may not involve books depending who you ask) and sometimes I write about what I’m reading, but I don’t really write about books. This is about books. I have a confession to make, like many people I got my library science degree because I love books. I love the idea of them, what they are capable of, the power within them (even if it is just a good index). I love what I do, I love where my career path has taken me and the focus of this blog and I still love books. I read. A lot. I thought I’d try to share that with you. I think it was after I finished my undergraduate degree that I realized that other people don’t really read as much as I do, I just assumed everyone did and they didn’t talk about it, it turns out I was wrong. It was a startling revelation. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think how much you read has a bearing on how much you love books. I’m just thinking out loud

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Real Winning Isn’t About Torpedoes It’s About Giving

April 8, 2011
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Real Winning Isn’t About Torpedoes It’s About Giving

Disclaimer: This post has NOTHING what-so-ever do with libraries. I can’t express how disgusted I am with the whole Charlie Sheen thing and that instead of helping that man people are encouraging him. I’m even more disgusted that people are willing to pay up to $350 to see him. Recently several of my friends retweeted this tweet by Wil Wheaton and I thought YES! This!  ”I wish everyone going to the Charlie Sheen Pay Attention To Me Tour would skip it and donate the ticket price to a battered women’s shelter.” I wish this SO much. Andy Woodworth has taken it one step further and set up a wiki encouraging people to donate to one of these charities. Domestic Violence: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence Drug Addiction: The Partnership At Drug-Free.org Mental Illness: NARSAD Now, I’m sure none of my readers have paid, or are considering paying to go see CS, but please consider donating to one of these, your local library or other charitable organizations. The BBB has some great tips and suggestions for giving wisely. PS if you do donate I’d love to hear about it. Leave a comment with the org and why you chose it. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this

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I am Honored and Humbled to be Included in the 2011 Movers and Shakers.

March 14, 2011
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I am Honored and Humbled to be Included in the 2011 Movers and Shakers.

Three years ago I when I started putting together a list of the Movers & Shakers with links to their blogs and Twitter accounts, it never occurred to me that one day I would be on that list. I am honored (and humbled) to be included with people I know, people I call friends and colleagues including Ned Potter, Courtney Young, Buffy Hamilton, Sue Polanka, Aaron Tay, Cindi Trainor, Anthony Molaro, Sarah Steiner and Gwyneth Jones! Plus so many great people I haven’t had the opportunity to work with yet! I have to say thank you to my peeps! I have some fabulous friends and colleagues, and some amazing coworkers over the years , (I hesitate to name names for fear of forgetting someone) who have been encouraging, supportive, and pushed me when needed. Thank you to everyone who nominated me I appreciate that you think I’m worthy! *cue the music* My write and up picture Twitter List of 2011 Movers & Shakers Movers & Shakers 2011, The People Shaping the Future of Libraries, the article Subscribe to all the blogs in one click! Thanks to the Google Reader bundle from Micah Vandegrift Congratulations to everyone! Joanna Axelrod @escolibrary; so-calconnection.blogspot.com Jason Casden Alison Circle @alisoncircle; blog.libraryjournal.com/bubbleroom Tracy Crawford Ryan

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Librarian by Day as an Android App

January 5, 2011
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Librarian by Day as an Android App

Earlier this week someone asked me if I had ever created an app. My answer – nope, never had a reason to.  But it got me thinking about it and serendipitously this morning on twitter I saw this: Quickly Turn Your Blog Into an Android App with Feed.nu  http://rww.to/dXuxtV Sure its just a blog but and its a very simple app but it uses RSS so you could use it for anything that produces a feed. Event calendar anyone? So I went through the process to create my own app.  You create an account a Feed.nu and it walks you through the process, basically enter your feed, upload some images and viola! You have a an Android app! I made the logo and header by grabbing an image of my blog using the Lightshot Chrome extension, editing them in Paint.net saved them as .png because that’s the file type Feed.nu said it wanted. Basically all together it took me maybe 15 or 20 minutes. Of course you could spend more time creating headers and logo images. The app can be downloaded from the website at http://librarianbyday.feed.nu/ (screenshots below) or I could spend the $25 to upload it to the Android Market

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photo by Beth Tribe

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