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The Librarian as DJ
On Saturday night I had a Zoom call with a friend of mine from high school. My friend prefaced our chat with a warning that she was going to keep the conversation short because video calls are exhausting. I heartily agreed. During this call, my daughter and her son would grace our screens and through…
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Personality Testing using H5P
We don’t all play games the same way. One useful means by which we can categorize types of players by their style of play is through the use of Bartle Types, named after Richard Bartle who formed the characterizations from observing participants playing MUDs: So, labelling the four player types abstracted, we get: achievers, explorers,…
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Make good choices
I’ve decided to assign all the game-related posts here with the label of ludo. The word ludo is likely related to the words, luden and lusory that you can learn more about from my first-games related post in this series. Ludo is the name the Danes call the game that Canadians would call Sorry… unless…
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The Untitled Game of the Goose
I am an aspiring game designer in the same way that so many people are aspiring writers. I have been meaning to design games for several years now but despite my good intentions, I haven’t found a way to sit down and do the work. I have done some self-reflection on why I fail to…
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Choose your quarantine character
Choose your quarantine character: I have decided that the character that I am going to embody for this quarantine is an advocate of games. You may notice that I did not use the word gamer to describe this role. The reason why I do not call myself a gamer is because to do so would…
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The Library of the Living and the Library of the Dead
I am in the process of re-organizing my Google Drive and in doing so, I stumbled upon a bit of writing from 2013 that would have been a perfect addition to the post Haunted libraries, invisible labour, and the librarian as an instrument of surveillance which I wrote earlier this year: When I was a…
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Considering dark deposit
I have a slight feeling of dread. In the inbox of the email address associated with MPOW’s institutional repository are more than a dozen notifications that a faculty member has deposited their research work for inclusion. I should be happy about this. I should be delighted that a liaison librarian spoke highly enough of the…
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Making blog posts count as part of a not-so-secret feminist agenda
Introduction: Secret Feminist Agenda & Masters of Text I am an academic librarian who has earned permanence – which is the word we use at the University of Windsor to describe the librarian-version of tenure. When I was hired, there was no explicit requirement for librarians to publish in peer-reviewed journals. Nowadays, newly hired librarians…
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Open Refine for Librarians
On October 24th, 2018, I gave a half-hour online presentation as part of a virtual conference from NISO called That Cutting Edge: Technology’s Impact on Scholarly Research Processes in the Library. My presentation was called: And here is the script and the slides that I presented: Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to introduce…
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Back to the Future of Libraries
I am in the process of reading Clive Thompson’s Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World and I have to say that I am, so far, disappointed with the book. I am a fan of Thompson’s technology journalism and I really enjoyed his earlier work, Smarter than you think:…
Librarian of Things
Mita Williams. Her blog.