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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 [...]

3 Insights From ACRL 2011


ACRL 2011 wrapped up this past weekend and much like the last time I attended, it was a great conference. There was a lot of great content and ideas in the papers, panels, posters and Cyber Zed Sheds. There were also some excellent keynotes that challenged us to think outside of the echo chamber of [...]

New Ideas: Separating The Chaff From The Grain


I enjoyed both Karen Schneider’s post and Meredith Farkas’ follow-up post about devil’s advocates. They talk about new ideas and how they require a lot of experimentation and iterations as well as people to challenge them to make them stronger. I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while, and I think it’s a very important [...]