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New Job Title: Innovation Catalyst Librarian


There are a growing number of positions that I’ve seen that are focused on new technologies and fresh ideas in libraries. From time to time I get questions or emails asking about my previous role as an Emerging Technologies Librarian and advice that I might have for people starting out in a similar role. While [...]

Advanced Twitter Search Case Study


I wrote up a case study titled Advanced Twitter Search for social monitoring and patron interaction for inclusion as additional online material for Ned Potter’s recent book The Library Marketing Toolkit. I’d strongly encourage you to check out his book and other case studies. Also the type of monitoring discussed in this case study is what led [...]

4 Reasons Librarians Should Join A MOOC


I am now in my fourth week of a Coursera course called Introduction to Finance. It’s a massively open online course (MOOC) that I am taking with thousands of other people from places like Ukraine, Malaysia, Indore, and Bogota. The class involves video lectures, working through problems, discussion forums with other classmates, quizzes, and even [...]