The Very Overdue #AISLNO17 Post (part 3)
My goal: to blog all the PD I’ve done this year before the academic year ends. In eight five four days. Get ready! **** Day Two: E-Books The best presentation advice: start on time, end early, feed...
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Summer is a great time to binge watch while digitally organizing/reorganizing/decluttering, isn’t it? So here’s what I’ve bookmarked and saved over the past few months. Books, Reading, etc. B&N’s...
View ArticleSome random thoughts on books and reading
For a variety of reasons, I’ve been home alone this past week and have had far too much energy for my own good. Which, of course, means that Things Are Getting Done: organizing, mostly, but reading and...
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In December I bought myself a new laptop, and this summer I finally cleared out my old files and programs. Yes, I procrastinate. A lot. Anyway, prior to using Feedbin, I used RSS Owl (which is great,...
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One of this year’s projects is an evaluation of our 300s – far too much has been dumped into that section and, oddly enough, a lot really belongs elsewhere. The other big project is to complete our...
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A holiday gift of sorts from me to you: linky goodness from the past few months. Enjoy! Books, Reading, etc. I so want to try this at work! BPL now has personalized RA via email. Ever wonder what is...
View ArticleTackling the junk drawer
Over the years, as students are doing research and as new books have arrived for the collection, it’s become clearer and clearer that the 300s (“Social Sciences”) are the junk drawer of the library...
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As promised, here are more of those links I’ve collected. Helpful tip: if you’re saving things as Twitter bookmarks, you can access them on your laptop by changing from twitter.com to m.twitter.com....
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One final round-up before school begins. Books, Reading, etc. If you do any Dewey instruction or are moving books around in your collection, think about some of the problems with DDC and how of its...
View ArticleTime to breathe
Because second semester is essentially Research Semester, with three months of classes (often 15-20 classes a day), we tend to tackle major projects in first semester. Perhaps not the smartest idea,...
View ArticleThe average day, fall version
Last October, the AISL blog had a post called What do you do all day? (sort of similar to the Library Day in the Life posts I did years ago). I thought it might be interesting to share what an average...
View ArticleFeeling vindicated
I know that there’s been very little blogging here the first half of the academic year. In part it’s because of a massive project we’ve been working on for the past two years that needed to be...
View ArticleNo time
One of the blogs I follow, Being More with Less, had a post recently called 9 Things I Refuse to Make Time For Anymore. Now, most of these are self-care things, like not rewriting the past or guilt and...
View ArticleThe art of “yes… but no”
One of the big project we’ve undertaken has been to go shelf by shelf, moving books to better fitting DDC numbers so our students can find what they need more easily. Sometimes the error was a simple...
View ArticleMinor Musings
It’s been well over a year since my last one of these. Let’s see what I’ve found since then. For many schools in the Northeast, there’s the approaching Spring Break in which to explore. Books,...
View ArticleOops!
One of this year’s projects is an evaluation of our 300s – far too much has been dumped into that section and, oddly enough, a lot really belongs elsewhere. The other big project is to complete our...
View ArticleNot a fan
There are words that we, in polite society, don’t say. Some of those words have been claimed, or reclaimed, by the group intended to be insulted by that word (eg, queer). And some are supposed to be...
View ArticleTwo weeks in
It’s been two weeks since the end of Spring Break. Two weeks since this great Remote Learning adventure started. Two weeks of a new kind of normal. It’s also been two weeks of Zoom meetings and chats...
View ArticleCataloging is FUNdamental
How can you possibly have an ALA-accredited library school and not have cataloging? It's the fundament upon which everything else rests for chrissakes — john "as b/4, someday, god willing" fink (@adr)...
View ArticleSo now we know… sort of…
Last week we finally heard from our Head of School what the start of the year would look like. Because Milton is such a complicated school, with three divisions, two of which are day only and one of...
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