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I just watched a patron get suckered by one of our frequent flyers. He’s a nice guy, but I’ve seen him do the “woe is me, I have no printer credits” performance many times. The well-meaning student logged into her student account to help the other guy print (100 pages no less, which I know [...]

I really do have great intent when it comes to blogging and posting. I even have a whole stockpile of half-finished drafts that I sift through every so often. I was just cleaning out the less…um…friendly of my drafts (I do actually have a filter, sometimes it even works) and came across this one…
I’m seeing [...]

Hey, lucky you. You have this amazing opportunity to help me. I need to rewrite some text and I need inspiration help.
In the PCC environment, when you go from here to some full text

you pass this along the way

My thinking involves some slightly colloquial language. Maybe something along the lines of:

It’s a bit long. [...]

I usually get perturbed with faculty who refer to our instructional services as presentations, orientations, and other non-teaching language. It’s recently occurred to me that this mostly just makes me a pretentious dork.
I still think it is important that our colleagues value and understand what we do (teaching) but I’m realizing that many of them [...]

I’ve clearly been under a rock recently and so missed the news about Amazon’s ridiculous failures in de-ranking. Y’know, where they “inadvertently” removed the sales rankings in many books with gay or lesbian themes in them somewhere. Something to do with adult content. NPR explains. Tweeple are outraged. Amazon blames some French guy.  Tweeple apologize, [...]

OK, I Went to Library School: Now What?
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This is a presentation for the Emporia State University SLIM Oregon cohorts brownbag lunch today. FYI, my reference to ITLWTLP is to point out that they are critical while remaining professional. Just in case you thought I was calling them jerks. (;  If you’re [...]

I know it’s been quite a while since my last update. I do have things to say about ACRL (it will be so outdated by the time I get around to it) but I’m dealing with some personal junk that’s occupying my time.
I received a pretty crappy letter from my employer over spring break. It [...]

I have a lot that I want to say but not a lot of time in which to say anything. This is largely about getting prepared to leave for for the airport in 20 minutes.
In lieu of belated resolutions or some sort of similar post, I’m going to give a list of things I hope [...]

Since I posted about my quest for moon boots the other day I’ve been thinking and rethinking some of my views. I’ve also been using our current housebound-due-to-snow status to catch up on a lot of reading. I suspect I’m about to go on a really long ramble.
I’ve talked in the past about the debate [...]

It’s the week before finals. That’s all I have time or energy to say… ♥ to those of you in academia and to our public counterparts who see our procrastinatory slaquers during our off-hours (and all other times, I’m sure).