I'm thrilled to be on the list of librarians nominated in the Best Librarian/Library category, its an honor just to be included among such great company. Voting is open until December 14th. For those of you visiting for the first time - Welcome! I write about a wide variety of topics related to 21st century ...
My first memory of interacting with Ned Potter is when he emailed me about the Library Day in the Life style for a new project called Library Routes. We quickly connected via Twitter and occasionally email, and Ned soon became one of my favorite UK Librarians. (In fact if you click on the link to ...
Believe it or not, self promotion is not something I do well. It is brought home to me regularly when I'm writing monthly reports in the office or when someone asks me for my bio for a speaking gig. A couple of months ago I tweeted that I needed help with this and several people ...
I'm excited to announce that The Readers' Advisory Handbook is now out! Over a year ago my friend, and awesome librarian, Kaite Mediatore Stover asked if I would be interested in writing a chapter for her readers' advisory book. She wanted me to address the online aspects of RA. I'm more of a blogger than an ...
I am taking the next two weeks off. Your regularly scheduled blog posts will resume on January 4th 2010. Why? The short version - It's the holidays, things are slow and it's always good to take a break. The long version - I need time to regroup and realign my priorities. Lately I've been scrambling ...