What is Success?

I gave a talk last week to the Delaware ILEAD group (I'll be posting that talk next week - probably) and part of my talk was about how t...

Battle of the Sexes board game review

A few weekends ago we went to board game night at a friends house. Four couples total played games until 4 in the morning. The hosts decided...

Leading Means Teaching, by Patrick Wohlmut

As I write this post, I have just completed end-of-year evaluations for my library�s student staff of reference workers. You read that corre...

Interview Posts, Take 1

I got some great suggestions on last week's post , and I want to get working on them right away. I particularly like the idea of intervi...

The Seven Phases Related to Building My Job from Scratch, by Emily Thompson

Dom Williams checks out the first iPod Touc h.  � Emily Thompson Phase 1: Elation As many of my cohort will attest, 2011 was a rough year fo...

Four Years of Letters

Four years ago (well, four years and eight days as of when this post will be published) I started my very first  blog post with: "I wa...

The Swapper Postmortem - What Went Wrong

This is a two-years-belated follow up to my post-release discussion of what worked and what didn't in The Swapper.  What went right is h...

Money on Your Mind, by Dolly Moehrle

You know what we talked about in library school? Collection development; the history of libraries; marketing; web and tech-y things; and oth...

The "Snake People" Are Coming to a Generalization Near You

I hate generational labels. I remember when I first encountered "generation x" as a label for my generation, That article talked a...

Just for Fun: Animal Twitter

I was challenged to come up with a list of all the animal accounts I follow on Twitter. So, in this spirit of Carrie Anne 's Follow Frid...

Preventing Librarian Burnout

source Months back I read an interesting piece on Inside Higher Ed. " Can I Do the Same Thing Over and Over Again? " by John Warne...