Information Tyrannosaur

I just finished the book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath. I highly recommend it and got a number of great ideas from it. But when I read it, one idea in particular stood out in relation to libraries. The idea is “the Curse of Knowledge.” The [...]

I won the NextGen Librarian Award from Lyrasis. From their website: “The NextGen Librarian Award honors three librarians new to the library profession who demonstrate an innovative and fresh approach to the profession and are leaders in our rapidly changing world.” I feel really honored to get something like this. I’m really thankful to my [...]

In the past month or two there have been a lot of jobs for Emerging Technologies Librarians (at least six that I’ve seen). I find it interesting that we are seeing more and more of these positions. Looking at the ads there are some commonalities in what employers want out of an emerging technologies librarian: [...]