Happy New Year! This year brings some big changes for me. About 6 years ago I began slowly steering my career in a different direction, and I’m finally fully on my new path, focused on digital library projects. In this new … Continue reading
This is a cross-post from the blog for the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) at Columbia University, where I was an intern in the summer of 2014. Last spring, I was looking for the perfect summer internship to … Continue reading
Below you’ll find the comment I just submitted to the FCC, as they’re currently accepting public comments about the idea of reclassifying internet access as a public utility, like water or telephone service. The initial period for public comments ends … Continue reading
Toward the end of March I had the wonderful opportunity to present at an inaugural conference on the subject of Women’s History in the Digital World (#WHDigWrld on Twitter), at the Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education (at … Continue reading
On my commute to work, I pass several different institutions that are (or used to be) convents or monasteries or seminaries, nestled in along the Hudson River. There’s also an episcopal church that has one of those lettered signs out … Continue reading
So, yes, the librarians come last. The thread on “Librarians” in The Atlas of New Librarianship, that is. While writing these posts, it has been very hard to divide these ideas into separate threads, they are so deeply woven together … Continue reading
The Mission of Librarians is to Improve Society through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities (Lankes, 2011) It is significant that “improve society” is at the beginning of this mission statement, not at the end – chronologically it should be at … Continue reading
I’ve been facilitating knowledge creation in my community for a while now – as a college level instructor. At a quick glance, the mission for new librarians expressed by Lankes in his book The Atlas of New Librarianship seems like … Continue reading
Consider this your warning! I’m getting ready to publish several posts reflecting on my first official week as a new librarian. I was just up at Syracuse University for librarian bootcamp – a week in residence to kick off my … Continue reading
