Monthly Archives: April 2009

Notes from One Who Aspires to Great Public Speaking

By Iris | Published: Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Catherine Pellegrino talks quite well about how active learning could be as much a part of conference presentations as it is a part of our classrooms. I won’t recreate her arguments here (go read them!), but they got me to thinking about my own presentation style, the styles of presenters I’ve seen recently that kept [...]

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"The Library" and Other Grand Unifications

By Iris | Published: Sunday, April 5th, 2009

A few weeks ago, while attending ACRL, I heard a question that nagged at my imagination: “If we define a doctor as ‘one who practices the art of healing,’ what is the analogous one-sentence definition of a librarian?” Yes, I know that boiling everything down we do into one sentence is a little bit absurd, [...]

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Best Conference Ever… In An Odd Way

By Iris | Published: Saturday, April 4th, 2009

I’ve been lying here on the couch for most of the day, too tired to move, or read, or get up to put on a CD. I feel like I’ve been extruded, or beaten about the head, or like I’ve given blood twice in one day. But you know what? It was totally worth it [...]