My article on MetaFilter, the community website that I moderate, is now up on the Library Journal website. Here’s the post on MetaFilter about it. I’m not the only liblogger who has written for them lately; Dorothea discusses being taken aback by the draconian terms of their author contract and has advice for potential LJ writers about how to negotiate the best deal to the rights of their own articles.
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Library Camp!
I’m in Connecticut and going to be heading over to Library Camp East tomorrow. I didn’t mention this before because there’s been a lot going on in my life lately and it was sort of a last minute decision. I drove down with Casey and Lichen and I’ll be seeing Michael Golrick later on today. Head on over to his blog and say Happy Birthday to him today.
My NDLA talks, from Fargo
I’m sitting in the back of the NDLA business meeting as this conference wraps up. What fun! It was the North Dakota Library Association’s 100th year. They had Michael Gorman and Loriene Roy, both of whom gave really interesting speeches which I listened to while eating some truly tasty food. I’ll give a little wrap-up later, but for now, here’s links to my two talks.
The Information Poor & the Information Don’t Care: The Digital Divide and Rural Libraries
Evaluating New Technologies for Libraries – High Tech on a Shoestring
portrait of the librarian at a young age
Today is my birthday. I am 38. It’s been a pretty good day so far. One of the places I am going today is the library.
I’m loud, foul-mouthed and frumpy
…and quoted in Pages Magazine saying so this month, in case you happen to see a copy. If not, I’ve got a photo of the spread.