Tag Archives: reference

the future of the reference desk

I’m not sure the reference desk makes the most sense anymore. I say that, though, based entirely on my own experiences at my own institution. Most of the questions I get are either way out of my league and something for a subject specialist, or they are super simple “how do I print” or “where [...]

Toolkit Presentation

I’ve been working on a project for the past year with the library’s webguru. I, personally, think it’s a great one, and it’s getting to the point where we can do more with it. I’m giving a talk on it, for interested library staff, on Friday.
Toolkit Presentation
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I’ve written something in Computers In Libraries

I don’t read very many journals or trade magazines cover to cover. Most of my professional development reading happens online, and most of that is in the blogosphere. However, one of the ones that I do take the time to read cover to cover was nice enough to publish an article of mine, and [...]

how do we define ourselves?

The other day I posted about the culture of beta. I think this is a shift in a way of thinking that can, will, and should impact our ways of working.
I’ve also been thinking about shifting the way we define our work.
Over and over again I am seeing cases of industries having to rethink the [...]

tweet tweet

When I first heard of Twitter, I was skeptical. Then, I wasn’t sure what anyone would do with it. Then I figured I should give it a try so I could answer questions about it when it came up. I found a few librarians and started following them. I still wasn’t [...]