Free Range Librarian

This is about two women, a blog, and a statewide mentoring program.
I recently had to write a midway review for my participation in the 2007-2008 Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute — also known as the “mentoring program.”
Mentors are like favorite aunts. We can hone in on helping our mentees with a focus that isn’t always [...]

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Pete Warden of PeteSearch provided a great summary of my defrag talk. (I love his one small error: don’t you think we work with “marked data”? There’s a posse lookin’ for yew, and yew is marked.)
I’m tagging this with the naive tag provided at the conference (defragcon) and two variants: defragcon07 and defragcon2007 (Y2K-compliant [...]

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The Defrag conference, which took place over two days in December (!) November, featured speakers and panelists such as David Weinberger, Doc Searls, Esther Dyson, Marti Hearst, and a constellation of other digirati and hopefuls. There were a few interesting exhibits — Yahoo, AOL, and Siderean were there, among others.
I have the usual core dump [...]

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My voice-over for this talk included a few facts about community colleges and libraries, plus a mention of Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, a game I learned from Andy Havens of OCLC. Using WorldCat Identities, I can get from David Weinberger to Francis Bacon in four steps!
(Also, the Flickr tag data is courtesy of [...]

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Something is amiss with CommentPress; the blog I set up for my presentation won’t display the posts. I’ve installed CommentPress before on other sites, so I’m assuming the latest version of CommentPress isn’t playing with the latest version of WordPress.
Ohhhhkayyyy. I’ll make sure I have the boring, predictable, but safe PowerPoint, but I’ll also do [...]

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I got up far too early, pulled the Times from the sidewalk,  and opened the Styles section to its “Weddings/Celebrations” section to count the gay marriages. Imagine my delight to see an announcement of the civil union for Larissa Cheney Brookes, SJSU LIS student, and her EPA-lawyer partner, Elizabeth La Blanc. You go gals!
Then I [...]

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I have worked places where filing travel receipts almost made me cry, or where I had to grovel with some extremely unpleasant person who would scold me for minor infractions. So when I said today I wasn’t sure how to file my travel receipts, imagine my delight when someone from MPOW came into my office [...]

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I’m in a friend’s lovely, lovely, lovely home. But what makes it the most utterly loveliest place of all? My Peet’s French Roast, hot and sweet on the bedside table.
In five hours I’ll be airborne, and by just after midnight I’ll be home. Then I leave Sunday on another junket, headed to the Defrag conference [...]

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I’m in Monterey attending the Internet Librarian 2007 conference. I’ve had a perfectly lovely weekend and will need to send thank-you cards to Walt and Marsha and Thomas and Jenny and Alexis and Marie and Dinah and Gail, and I’ve eaten mmmmmmmmmmmm so many good things, glad I wore nice roomy cords, and I’ve seen [...]

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I put the slides on Google after two uploads to slideshare.net failed abysmally.  (My talk was also greatly enriched by two slides I stole, one from Andrew Pace and the other from Darlene Fichter. Thanks ;-)  )
This was a great experience. I haven’t done a pure “2.0″ talk in over a year, which meant I [...]

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