I’m a tattooed geek
I'm emerging from holiday break just long enough to link to my picture on the Geeky Tattoos blog, whose author calls me a "hardcore librarian." Word.
ALI episode 9
Before my winter break starts, I've posted the December episode of Adventures in Library Instruction. Happy holidays, everybody. See you in January.
Zotero storage
Zotero just announced a new free storage feature for attachments. I blogged about it over on the library's site, so I won't repeat it here.
The first 100 megs of storage is free. I've got a fair-sized library, and I'm only using half that. I probably won't need to upgrade to paid storage until well into next year, but you can get a gigabyte for twenty bucks a year. That strikes me as quite reasonable. I'd pay twenty dollars for another gig in my Dropbox in a heartbeat.
What’s up?
Hi!
So what have I been doing since Internet Librarian a month ago? Anna rightly called me out for not blogging much this fall.
Well, we did another episode of Adventures in Library Instruction a couple of weeks ago, but you knew that.
I've been writing a lot for the last month. I wrote an article about LibX and Zotero for College and Research Libraries News, which I'll link here once it's up. It's also sort of a tie-in for a webcast I'll be doing for them early next year.
I also did an article for Georgia Library Quarterly, which I'll post here after it goes to print. It's for a column called "My Own Private Library," about librarians' personal libraries. I wrote about free audio books and fiction podcasts.
I'm trying to finish an article on DRM before I go out of town for the holidays, and I hope that's it for this year. (If I mention it in public maybe I'll shame myself into finishing it.)
Coming up next year, I'm doing a presentation on LibGuides and Zotero for the staff of GALILEO, a Georgia virtual library initiative. I'm also been asked to give an online Zotero workshop for librarians and staff of a New Jersey library system, and there's that ACRL webcast in March. In April, I'm giving a podcasting presentation at Computers in Libraries.
Plus, you know, doing my actual job too. In some ways my first fall back at GSU Library has blasted by like a jet-powered monkey-navigated rocket car across the alkali flats, and in some ways this has seemed like the endless semester. Lots of changes, and I'm looking forward to my new role as a subject liaison. I'm really enjoying learning my way around collection development and I'm looking forward to working on outreach next semester and getting to know the Comm department.
My Zotero book
Adventures in Library Instruction podcast
My posts @GSU Library
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Twittering
- GSU students who ask us when's a good time to find an available library study room: turns out the answer is Superbowl Sunday. #tumbleweeds