Oh f*ck

Heh. So, uh, remember how in my Shovers & Makers blurb I blathered on about how it’s just so frigging easy for me to get proposals accepted for conference sessions? How I practically do them in my sleep? Apparently I also submit conference proposals in my sleep because I have absolutely no [...]

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First, get yourself a gimick

Initially, I was a little wary of Sarah Houghton-Jan’s CIL presentation “The 10 LOL Cat Laws of Web Services for Smaller and Underfunded Libraries” My first thought was “SRSLY?” because, yes, LOLspeak seems so ubiquitous that I actually think in it sometimes. I thought, this LOLcat things seems played and here it [...]

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What you’re doing is awesome. Tell me about it, please.

Are you successfully using or successfully trying to use new technology/social software/web 2.0 tools to collaborate with or otherwise engage your faculty?
Well have I got a deal for you! If you tell me what you’re doing, how you’re doing it and how it’s changing the world (or engaging your faculty, either way), I’ll share [...]

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Pasting code is easier than forming sentences

It’s looking like every day this week will be Incoherent Though Friday.  My brain is about as substantial as the dozens and dozens of oysters I ate at The Brooklyn and I haven’t even glanced at my notes since I closed my book on Sunday morning.
In the meantime, I’ll share some numbers.  On Tuesday, March [...]

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What is Library Secrets?

The deadline for uploading handouts for ACRL is coming up, so I’m hanging out with Picnik, SnagIt and Publisher a lot these days.  I can’t seem to come up with a fine enough argument to convince anyone to buy me Photoshop and I’m too lazy to use a public computer in the lab.
I’m a big [...]

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What are you doing Saturday March, 14th at 9am?

The ACRL 14th National Conference program is up and searchable for your 3 months-in-advance planning pleasure.   I will be in Exhibit Hall D,  Poster 22, covered in duct tape and wrapped in fishing line.  It’s really more of a performance art piece than a poster session… I’m pretty sure I didn’t [...]

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I’ll be the one in the Reading Is Crazy Shit t-shirt, smacking you in the back of the knees with an overlarge poster board

I’m presenting my poster session at ACRL! I’m completely looking forward to it, as I have been since I put in the application, but now I have to start thinking of logistics. Like, how the hell do I get poster presentation materials from Chicago to Seattle?
Has anyone out there done a poster session [...]

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An honor and an honorarium

Hey, librarians of the experienced speaking and presenting persuasion!  I need your help!
This morning I got a call from an out-of-state library network asking if I’d be interested in holding an all-day workshop on Library Secrets– I guess one of their members saw my presentation at LOEX of the West.   Naturally, I was completely flattered [...]

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Slide space

I’m a fan of both the Librarian in Black and Walking Paper, so when Sarah Houghton-Jan posted a link to the slides for her and Aaron Schmidt’s Internet Librarian presentation, Digital Marketing: Successful Plans/Organizations I immediately clicked through.
The slides looked a little familiar and I recognized the presentation that Aaron gave at a Metropolitan Library [...]

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The constant battle against crappy PowerPoint presentations

PowerPoint certainly gets a lot of flack when it comes to godawful slideshows and presentations, but we can’t solely blame them.   I’ve seem equally godawful Keynote presentations and Google Docs presentations, so it has to be us, not them, right?
Well, I think presentation software has to play the enabler in this dysfunctional relationship.  It [...]

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