Category Archives: my job

Notes on Plagiarism Tutorials

I’m about to get started on a new tutorial project, and wanted to get a lay of the land.  This one will be a lot different from the Toolkit, since the topic is plagiarism and can’t be covered in 2-3 minutes. And what better way to do that then to ask your Twitter friends what [...]

Lifestreaming with Facebook, Friendfeed, and Google Buzz

What fun timing! I had scheduled an emerging tech talk (a regular talk I do at work on emerging technologies) for this morning, and then two days ago Google Buzz was announced!
That night I was using it on my cell phone, and yesterday morning it was integrated into my Gmail. After the long anticipated introduction [...]

My Library Roots and Routes

Here’s a post on my roots and my routes, for the Library Routes Project. Ned Potter asked me to participate in this before the holidays, but as has been the case lately, I’m just now getting around to contributing….
It’s a great project. The idea is that library bloggers tell their story of how they got [...]

Worksheets for LIB100

I teach a one-credit information literacy course as part of my job. Many semesters, I’ve had mostly juniors and seniors, so I’ve adjusted my curriculum to be less about how to use our specific library and more about how to think about the information environment and how to change to be ready for whatever’s coming [...]

A Week in My Library Life

I love the Library Day in the Life project. So, after a particularly intense week, I thought it was time to post on the topic again. This is what the week was like for an Instructional Design Librarian at my library:
Monday

Started off with a morning with a casual meeting with some of my favorite instructional [...]