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Feeling Like a Celebrity

By Iris | Published: Friday, July 11th, 2008
Everyone should be lucky enough to know a graphic artist! Just hours after I mentioned that my ultimate dream was to have a Pegasus image for my blog header, the amazing Tim Keneipp emailed me an image. I fell in love with that statue Pegasus instantly. Of course, then came hours and hours of fighting [...]
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Hey Look! Things Look Different Around Here

By Iris | Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2008
I’ve been royally tired of my blog theme for a long time. So tonight, to distract myself from various things I didn’t want to be thinking about, I decided to choose a new theme and apply all my theme tweaks to it. So here it is, my first draft. Things might change for a while, [...]
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Growing via Comments

By Iris | Published: Saturday, June 7th, 2008
I’ve been having the most interesting exchange with Mark in the comments on my last post. I love it how a seemingly simple discussion about jargon can push me to interrogate my mission and place within the educational system in ways I’d never articulated before. Have I mentioned recently how much I love the fact [...]
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One of My Blogging Blindspots

By Iris | Published: Sunday, May 4th, 2008
People talk about blogs being conversation spaces in a large part because of their comment features. And I love the fact that people can comment on blogs. I get ridiculously excited when people comment on the posts I put up here (seriously, every single time it’s like I’ve never gotten a comment before). And I [...]
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Modes of Communication

By Iris | Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Yesterday reference and instruction librarians from the five Oberlin Group libraries in Minnesota. I always love these meetings. They’re a chance to reconnect with our colleagues at other libraries, to think together about issues that will shape our futures, and to take large issues and examine how they map onto our particular experiences. This time [...]
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