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How Libraries Can Leverage Twitter


Twitter has been working pretty well at our library. It is coming up on two years since our first tweet. I have been thinking a lot lately about how we use Twitter and our successes and shortcomings with it. Looking back on tweets, conversations, and interactions from the past year and a half, I noticed [...]

Improve Your Soft Skills


I’ve got a guest post up on the blog Hack Library School. If you are not following this blog, I would suggest subscribing. It’s a collective blog about rethinking library school and the future of librarianship. Here’s a short snippet from the post: In librarianship, speaking in public is necessary if you want to be [...]

Catch And Release For Ideas


We have ideas all the time. At conferences, in the shower, talking to co-workers, lying in bed, riding the bus, there is no shortage of ideas. Some are great and some are duds, but it’s necessary to capture them if we ever want to act on them. In fact, generating and capturing ideas is a [...]