If you’re in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina on March 21st, please stop by and say hello or come hear me talk about technology and the information poor.
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hitchhiker outreach
Another hitchhiker outreach story. I picked up a kid who was getting off work at the local ski resort and gave him a ride in to town. He said that he lived right near the library — where I was going — but he never went there because he had “$120 in fines or something” I let him know that our maximum fine on books that have been returned was only $5 so that it was unlikely his fines were that high. When I parked my car, I invited him in “just to check.” Turns out, he had $5 in fines and was so happy to not have his fine be in the double or triple digits that he paid it right then and there and renewed his card. I don’t think I can make a habit of this, but it’s nice when you just tell the truth about the library and people who have been thinking something untrue about it get the message.
low end powerpoint – streetref notes
Inspired by Michael’s white board shot, I have the notes from my street reference talk — which got at least one positive review — on-line. How are you at communicating your message without your gadgetry?
me – metabrarian shout-out
Here’s another picture of me from the weekend, at a meetup for Metafilter members, an online community that contains quite a few librarians or librarians-in-training. This was a shoutout to the people that couldn’t make it.
booklist RSS feed updated
Until we exist in a future world where auto-discovery of changed RSS feeds is the norm, dorky posts like this will have to do. If you’re subscribed to my booklist feed, the new URL for it is at this link. I’ll try to add some metadata to my pages so that I’ll be ready for that future world.