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Information Wants To Be Free


Constructive criticism

Let this be a lesson to you — never write a comment on a blog post while you have a baby on your lap who is simultaneously grabbing at your laptop and spitting up on your pants (yes, this...

Started in Information Wants To Be Free • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: hi, librarianship, our digital future, tech trends
Shades of gray

Ever since the news of LibLime’s enterprise version of Koha and whether or not their actions consisted a fork of the code, I’ve been thinking about how black and white some of us (me...

Started in Information Wants To Be Free • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: assessment, librarianship, libraries, open source, our digital future
Who should teach library instruction?

Don’t worry, Walt, I won’t apologize for being away and I won’t promise that I’m going to post more often (though I have a lot of ideas for posts, something has been...

Started in Information Wants To Be Free • 2 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: instruction, librarianship, libraries
Roles and responsibilities for 2.0 technologies

I get asked a lot of things via email from librarians, but very few actually make it to this blog. This question was so interesting and probably better answered by the “hive” than just by...

Started in Information Wants To Be Free • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: libraries, our digital future, social software
It’s not about us (or more ramblings on possessiveness)

I know Jenica wondered if her blog post, Rambling about possessiveness, really had a point, but it was right in line with things I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. Jenica wrote about the...

Started in Information Wants To Be Free • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: work, libraries, our digital future
Help the Louisville Free Public Library!

I know a number of people in the Louisville area, so I’ve heard all about the horrible weather they’ve been having this year. But the flooding of the Louisville Free Public Library was...

Started in Information Wants To Be Free • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: libraries
Why I participated in Library Day in the Life

Sarah Cohen wonders what motivated people to participate in Library Day in the Life and who we are writing these for. I can’t speak for everyone else, but I wanted to share my own reasons for...

Started in Information Wants To Be Free • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: work, free the information!, librarianship, librarydayinthelife
Day 3 in the life of a head of instructional initiatives

8:00 am – Checked my email. Checked reference email accounts. Answered a few reference questions, forwarded a database error on to our Head of Digital Initiatives and a Norwich history question to...

Started in Information Wants To Be Free • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: work, librarianship, libraries, librarydayinthelife
Day 2 in the life of a head of instructional initiatives

With many of my colleagues on vacation and no students around, this isn’t the most exciting time to be recording my time at work. I will definitely do something similar during the Fall or...

Started in Information Wants To Be Free • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: work, librarydayinthelife
Day 1 in the life of a head of instructional initiatives

I cheated on this a little — I wrote this up on Friday since I’m not working until Wednesday. Until mid-August, I’m only working 2 days per week so that Reed can wait until...

Started in Information Wants To Be Free • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: work, about me, librarydayinthelife
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