Jessica Baumgart is trying to put together some sort of librarian blogger event at BloggerConII which will be in Boston/Cambridge the weekend I’ll be down to speak at Simmons. Anyone else interested in getting together? If so, sign up [it’s free, free as in $0] and email Jessica.
Month: March 2004
core competencies for librarians
I love lists. These lists are great: The Top Ten Things a new Sci/Tech Librarian Should Know. I am sorry I missed this in Toronto.
9. You might get a lot of colds (working with the public).
10. You won’t be expected to do everything you promised in the interview.
11. Your colleagues are just as clueless or insecure as you are.
10. You won’t be expected to do everything you promised in the interview.
11. Your colleagues are just as clueless or insecure as you are.
read contest
ALA is sponsoring a READ poster contest to highlight their new $99 make your own READ poster CD. I did this myself a while back. Here is me and the Alternative Press Index, my reading material of choice. Man my hair grew fast.
hi – 15mar
Hi. I’m staying someplace in what I think is the “upper west side” here. I went to a meeting of the Progressive Librarians Guild last night which was really fun. Met some cool library students and librarians and said hello to some old friends. If you’re interested in progressive issues and you’d like to know more librarians, look these folks up, especially if you are in the NYC area. A lot of good thinking going on there, dues are cheap and you don’t have to be a member of ALA. [site hosted on Libr.org which as a new store up and running]. I got a Brooklyn Public Library card which may allow me to hassle smartie BPL librarians with “ask a librarian” questions in the afternoon hours.
hi – 13mar
Hi. My talk went well and is available in the very-slimmed-down slide format here. It was really exciting to get to hang out with a bunch of super-smart librarians who mostly “get” technology and hear what they had to say and what they were working on. I was the only public librarian in the room which I found quite amusing. People seemed to like my talk. The keynote by LoC librarian [and former private investigator?] Thomas Mann was unforgettable and I’ll try to sum it up in some notes later. No WiFi at Columbia, though there is WiFi through the walls of my friends’ Brooklyn apartment. Updates spotty for a few days.