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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…
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Noting well
Scribble, scribble, scribble (Eh! Mr Gibbon?) Last week I read an article that made me very uncomfortable. I had been diagnosed by the author and was found to be diseased. The Twittering Machine is powered by an insight at once obvious and underexplored: we have, in the world of the social industry, become “scripturient—possessed by…
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Blogging is dead… here are some tips to manage your online working environment
Blogging is dead. Blogging as an ecosystem of blogrolls, blog rings, blog planets, RSS readers, and writers who link and respond to each other… it is long gone. Most people don’t even know that this network once existed, once thrived, and then was lost. That being said, I still believe blogging is good. Blogging can…
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Could you make history?
It started out with a dab. My son let me know that he dabs on the haters. I retorted that the dab is old news. It’s sooooo old… wait, how old is it now? I looked up the origins of the dab. And then I made a version of Timeline of dance moves using index…
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The Provenance of Facts
Brian Feldman has a newsletter called BNet and on May 30th, he published an insightful and whimsical take on facts and Wikipedia called mysteries of the scatman. The essay is an excellent reminder that if a fact without proper provenance makes it way into Wikipedia and is then published in a reputable source, it is…
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The future of Big Te(a)ch
Last week, my place of work announced that the university campus was going to be primarily online for the upcoming fall semester. From my understanding, the qualifier of primarily is being used because there are some professional programs that have compulsory in-person components such as in clinical nursing. Replicating hands-on or lab components of classes…
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It’s time to cut the CRAAP
I do not have a good understanding of what academic librarians are currently teaching students in regards to evaluating information they find on the Internet. Rather than read the literature, I searched for the word CRAAP in my custom Google Search Engine for Ontario Academic Libraries. I found that many libraries – including my own…
Librarian of Things
Mita Williams. Her blog.