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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Some Days I Actually Feel Like a Librarian… Some Days I Don’t
I often feel like I stumble through my job by pretending I know what I’m doing. There’s always the lurking fear that if people really knew how much guessing and bluffing I do, they’d never set foot in a library again. Well, today has been both good and bad. At first I thought it would [...]
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Want Walt?
For all of you who’ve thought at one time or another, “Hmmm, I wish I had a Walt working here,” now’s your chance. He’s officially on the job-hunt, and I sure wish I could hire him. He’s a thoughtful writer and an engaged thinker, and he’s been a good and supportive friend to me ever [...]
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Beating Rocks Together: Print Styles for Blogger
Long story short (ish)… Walt liked a blog post but reminded me that I’ve never been able to figure out how to make blogger cough up a good style for printing posts. I whined that I don’t know how to fix it. Dorothea and Steve worked HARD to help me fix it. Steve was the [...]
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What Do We Teach? Information Literacy and Information Technology in an Academic Setting
A few times a term, librarians from Carleton and St. Olaf meet to discuss an article that is either about some aspect of information literacy and IL instruction, or can be discussed from the perspective of people teaching information literacy. This morning, for example, we talked for about 45 minutes about Ann Grafstein’s new article [...]
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