Month: October 2020
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Weeknote 44 (2020)
This is my third week of weeknotes and I have to say that the format is agreeing with me. I did a quick search online to see if any other librarians have adopted this particular format and I couldn’t find anyone from the librarian profession so I have yet to become an influencer (*snerk*). I…
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Weeknote 43 (2020)
This was the week that I planned to remove myself as much as possible from my regular working responsibilities and reconnect with my chosen community of Access 2020 which is the GOAT of conferences, in my books. This did not happen. Instead, I ended up working on a variety of management-related responsibilities and caught what…
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Weeknotes : 42 (2020)
“Weeknotes are blogposts about our working week” Web of Weeknotes Having a set regular writing schedule seems to work for me. Since 2016, I send out a small set of recommended reads, games, and other things every Saturday morning via a TinyLetter to around 200 people. Since August of this year, I’ve managed to send…
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Why would anyone pay $1500 to learn how to write notes?
Part one In 2018, musician and writer Claire L. Evans spoke at the XOXO Festival sharing some of the stories that she tells more fully in her book, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. It was from this presentation that I first learned about the Microcosm system – a…