A Wandering Eyre

It is important to have a back-up plan when creating the plan you hope will work. Sometimes even the best laid plans go awry and then it is time to revamp, evaluate, call in the A-Team, or whatever is needed to keep the levy from breaking.
I recently gave birth in a Birth Center with a [...]

(I said Friday for big news, but I suppose I am unable to read calendars. This is the big announcement. Enjoy.)
People fear and worry about the unknown.
The PTB, Powers That Be, in most organizations perpetuate fear by having closed meetings, by distributing meeting minutes that have no substance, hiding or disguising the way decisions are [...]

I have been busy getting the Rochester household ready for our new addition and I have neglected to read the news from library land. I saw a few posts pop up about Swift when they first popped up, but I did not read them. I think maybe I should have because I would have seen [...]

I am still trying to figure out how to plan my work, house, and napping needs around the hours of my day. I think I am finally getting an idea of what is and is not possible in a 24 hour period for the stay-at-home Jane.
I am catching up on some much needed reading [...]

I have an interview with Christopher Harris over at the TechSource Blog today. We talk about his new project called Fish4Info.
The vision behind Fish4Info was a desire to create a positive library experience. I wanted to change the typical library catalog which is often used as a pass through to information into a destination where [...]

Since October, I have been working with a group of school librarians from the Rochester, NY area. I created and taught a Five Weeks type course for them called Library 2.0 Leadership Institute. The idea was the brainchild of Chris Harris who is, in my opinion, doing more for school libraries right now then anyone [...]

Joe Janes
Reference 2.0:Ain’t What it Used to Be… and it never will again
[My comments in brackets.]
[He is doing this without slides! Coolio.]
Mr. Janes self identifies as a Lackluster Enhancer [from Rainie’s talk yesterday].
First article we know of that talks about reference is from 1876. The primary motivation for helping people is that there is [...]

1385 people at the conference
Lee Rainie from Pew Internet and American Life Project
2.0 and the Internet World
[my comments in brackets]
[Lee always opens with humor and he goes through some things that have been blogged about him.]
[I can never keep up with Mr.Rainie when he talks. Everything he has to say is so interesting. Someone [...]

Today, I saw Dr. Wesch’s new offering about students in a couple different places. I have to say that the man is a genius. This should be required watching for anyone who teaches. It is funny because watching the video made me think of all the lecture halls I sat in while attending college. I [...]

The Future is Not Out of Reach: Change, Library 2.0, and Emerging Trends
Change affects each of us in different ways. Sometimes libraries change like turtles. We are the lucky ones. LITA, the techno geeks.
Social networking has been taking off in the last 2 years. Our patrons are using things like YouTube, but not all [...]