shinylib

It’s not quite abandoned, just undergoing a complete rethink. The shinylib voice will rejoin the world, probably in early 2010, possibly with a different format. We’ll see what happens.
In the interim, most of my yapping and thinking is taking place on Twitter, where I’m still shinylib.

In preparation for the start of Fall term I am in negotiations with the Nursing (NUR)  faculty about the 1st year orientations and 2nd year research classes. This is an ongoing struggle to which you have been witness. We’re making progress, slowly but surely.
In an attempt to decrease the number of scheduled classes to which [...]

I keep wanting to write spiffy post-Denver posts and rambling-yet-fascinating commentaries about the state of the profession and everything else. The reality is that I just don’t have time. Fail.
Well, I do have a little time, so let me say a few things. Midwinter meeting is boring. If no one has come out and told [...]

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 [...]

There’s something especially slippery about the idea of obvious. For example, it seems really obvious to me that the little red card on top of the catalog terminals explains that you can’t get to the Internet-at-large on those computers. Judging by the number of times each day that I explain that you can’t do that [...]

Although I didn’t get to attend, I’ve been told materials from the UW workshop on assessment are available.
Links to online materials via delicious
http://delicious.com/assessment4librarians
UW Information Literacy blog
http://uwinfolit.blogspot.com/

Since Anne-Marie and Rachel introduced me to the idea of alternate reality games (ARGs) back at OnlineNW, I have been thinking about fun, marketing and outreach pretty much nonstop. The problem is really that I don’t know how to take these awesome ideas and bring them down to PCC scale.
I know that Trinity has [...]