Category Archives: random thoughts

Who stole my summer??

By Iris | Published: Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
There’s always that one day — the day when you spend most of your day putting appointments into your calendar, the day when email volume doubles, the day when deadline work takes over and project work gets squeezed into a corner. That day was Monday. Fall is coming. Before Fall Term starts, I need to: [...]
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Evernote, Cloud Computing, and Reality

By Iris | Published: Monday, July 26th, 2010
I’ve been an Evernote user for four and a half years (which, incidentally, is pretty much the longest I’ve used any single program other than MS Office and Quicken) and recommended it to several of my colleagues. That’s where I keep notes from every meeting and conference I’ve been to since becoming a librarian, all [...]
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I Totally Don’t Care That This is a Marketing Campaign

By Iris | Published: Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Because it’s just so brilliant. The Old Spice Guy made custom videos, by request via social media. Andy did his awesome Andy thing and took that as a challenge, and so we ended up with this library-related video: And then came the news that 8 out of 5 dentists say that studying in the library [...]
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Communities and Places and Belonging

By Iris | Published: Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
I’m at least nominally a member of three online communities. Or, rather, I’m a member of three communities that have given themselves distinct names and spaces, and then there are a lot of people I interact with that also function as a community but with much fuzzier edges. Anyway, the Library Society of the World [...]
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Metadata as Content

By Iris | Published: Thursday, May 13th, 2010
This morning my fellow instruction librarians and I launched into one of our animated discussions about the different instructional values of disciplinary databases and Google, when we start students out in one, when we start students out in another, how the two are changing, how our uses of both are changing, and student responses to [...]
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