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do this, if you get the chance
Or maybe that should say – make the chance happen, if you can! So far, this “what I am doing today” focus is working for me as a way to jump start writing. Looking at my calendar for next week, I’m...
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it is too much, let me sum up
There was a little flurry of conversation in my social networks about Mark Bauerlein’s recent offering on the Brainstorm blog (at the Chronicle), and i just realized that it was almost all in the...
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Many Thoughts about Wikipedia
Back from LOEX, and it was pretty great. I was pretty sure I knew what to expect from LOEX, but I had no idea what to expect from Columbus. What we found was a highly walkable downtown, that didn’t...
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Article 6
So, according to TechCrunch in 2010, Bill Gates thinks that by 2015, people won’t have to go away to college anymore because Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best...
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The iConnected Parent (Summer Reading 2012) part 1
Today’s assignment — Chapter 1: iConnected Parenting 101. You know, I don’t do book clubs. I don’t know why. Well, maybe I do know why. I think for a book club to work for me it would have to be a...
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the iConnected Parent, Chapter 2
Chapter 2 — The Electronic Tether: Communication between Today’s College Students and Their Parents Summary We open with Doonesbury articulating the central tension of the book — not helicopter...
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The iConnected Parent, Chapter 3
One thing that I maybe haven’t made clear is that this book isn’t intended to be an exhaustive treatment of this, or any, phenomenon — it’s a parenting book, designed to give advice to parents with...
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If you don’t use peer-reviewed sources you’ll be SO grounded!
I have more writing to do right now than I have time, so it has of course become vitally important to write this blog post that has been buzzing at the back of my brain RIGHT NOW. My life as a parent...
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What I will be doing at the end of October
So this summer has been all kinds of crowded in terms of my schedule, but one of the best pieces has been working with the executive board of the Oregon chapter of ACRL to plan the fall conference we...
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lifelong learning
In our strategic planning meetings there has been some pushback against the phrase (not the idea) of lifelong learning – the feeling exists that we’ve been using this phrase so long in libraries that...
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Good Library Assignments, part 2
So if bad assignments are not better than nothing – what makes them good? Not what are the rules of good assignments, because tired of rules, but yes, there are some principles, or maxims or truisms...
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Good library assignments, part final
So we left off with the idea that research is scary and difficult, that it’s much easier to follow a familiar path than to try something new. I think the last two truisms really get at the place where...
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From the archives – the librarian can’t find the best source
This post from Lauren Pressley really resonated with me – particularly her note that not-blogging promotes not-blogging because when you don’t blog often you feel pressure to come up with something...
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What? So What? Now What?
So last week I was at the First-Year Experience conference in San Diego a couple of weeks ago. There were many highlights — starting with a conference that is actually in my time zone, to my excellent...
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Shiny! Our new outreach cart
Our new outreach cart You know how to brighten up the Friday of Dead Week? Getting your new outreach cart delivered to your office! Even better? Getting it hand-delivered by the senior Engineering...
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on the Makerspaces thing
Unless there actually was a thing? This post isn’t about a specific thing, just about makerspaces and libraries. I was at an event last week where a student from a local high school explained how his...
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Practice & the tenure question
I feel odd weighing in here, because I have actively not joined the conversation on twitter. Between a conference, putting one project to bed and ramping another one up – I knew that I would not be...
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Good library assignments, part final
So we left off with the idea that research is scary and difficult, that it’s much easier to follow a familiar path than to try something new. I think the last two truisms really get at the place where...
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The problem with context
“Judging from what you all, say” remarked Aunt Jamesina, “the sum and substance is that you can learn—if you’ve got natural gumption enough—in four years at college what it would take about twenty...
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#stealthgoals
Last summer I was observing a session of ACRL’s Immersion program. My purpose there was to observe the teaching as a future teacher, but as usual in the face of smart people with interesting things to...
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