Librarian X

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.

Tomorrow (Thursday October 8th) I’ll be giving a presentation at the Georgia Council of Media Organizations (COMO) in Columbus, Georgia. My friend and colleague Sarah Steiner and I are presenting a session called “Finding Your Voice: Creative Ideas for Beginning a Pod- or Vidcast Series.” Say hi if you have a chance to attend.

I forgot to post this along with the audio and slides the other day.  This is the bibliography and links that we gave out to attendees.

Articles

Berk, J., Olsen, S., Atkinson, J., & Comerford, J. (2007). Innovation in a podshell: bringing information literacy into the world of podcasting. Electronic Library, 25(4), 409-419.

Deal, A. (2007, June 4). Podcasting: A Teaching with Technology White Paper. Retrieved July 30, 2008, from http://connect.educause.edu/blog/jklittle/podcastingateachingw/44653.

Griffey, J. (2007). Podcast 1 2 3. Library Journal, 132(11), 32-34.

Mizrachi, D., & Bedoya, J. (2007). LITE Bites: broadcasting bite-sized library instruction. Reference Services Review, 35(2), 249-256. doi: 10.1108/00907320710749164.

Puckett, J. (2008, February 10). Podcasting in Academic Libraries. Jason Puckett.net. Retrieved July 24, 2008, from http://jasonpuckett.net/projects/podcasting-in-academic-libraries/.

Stephens, M. (2005). Libraries Get Podcasting. Library Journal, 130, 24.

Worcester, L., & Barker, E. (2006). Podcasting: Exploring the Possibilities for Academic Libraries. College & Undergraduate Libraries, 13(3), 87-91.

This is the audio and slides from Rachel Borchardt’s and my presentation at the GALILEO/GOLD Users Group Conference, August 1st 2008.  (PS: I finally remembered to post the handout.)

 

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Yesterday Rachel and I gave our presentation on instructional podcasting at the GALILEO/GOLD conference.  I felt like it went very well, and we got lots of very nice feedback afterward.  We experimentally tried recording it, and if the audio came out okay I’ll post it here soon.  (Note the lack of date commitment.  I have a busy few more days ahead of me as I finish up school.)

But that’s not the point of today’s post.  I want to show off the graduation present I got after the conference.

Photo credit: Rachel. Tattoo by my very dear friend Ron Hendon, owner of Midnight Iguana Tattooing, Athens Georgia.  Thank you, Ron.

I usually try to post about once a week or so, but I’m coming up on crunch time at school (I graduate with my MLIS in just over a week). It has eaten my life.

Tomorrow, Rachel Borchardt and I are presenting on instructional podcasting at the GALILEO/GOLD conference in Athens.  I am anxious but excited — they have put us in the Big Room because we had the most signups of any session in our time slot!

Jason & Cory

Originally uploaded by Photos o’ Randomness

I was, and am, way too excited about this.

Massive kudos to ALA for inviting him to come to Annual. I only wish his Sunday session on privacy had been better promoted — it was one of the best ones I attended at the conference.

Man, am I tired.  I think I did more stuff at this conference than any I’ve been to previously.  Still recovering.  Some standouts:

Win: Preconference on “Library Instruction 2.0” presented by Karen Munro, Anne-Marie Dietering and Rachel Bridgewater was one of the best conference sessions I’ve ever been to.  I came away with a ton of ideas.

Win: BIGWIG Social Software Showcase was not only interesting but fun.  I spent the whole session with Cindi Trainor’s Libguides discussion group since I had some experience with it and felt like I could contribute.  (Libguides seems to be a theme for me this summer.)  I’m so glad that groups like BIGWIG are experimenting with new presentation models like this.

Win: I got to meet Cory Doctorow, my technology activist hero!  The ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom had him, Beth Givens and Dan Roth in a fantastic panel discussion on privacy Sunday afternoon.  After hearing this session, I’m planning to create a guide to online privacy tools for students.  Win: Trading Twitter messages with Jessamyn West during the session.  Fail: The session was poorly publicized (last-minute addition?) and therefore poorly attended.  This should have been a centerpiece of the conference.

Addendum: Jessamyn’s blog post about the session, Jenny Levine’s post at Shifted Librarian, Kate Sheehan’s post at Loose Cannon Librarian.

Fail: The (paid) speaker at the LIRT session “Energizing Your Instruction” included ads for his wife’s (?) weight loss business in the handouts and opening slides.  That’s the tackiest and most inappropriate thing I’ve ever seen in a presentation and it put me off even before he started.

Win: Meeting (“meating,” as my friend Amy would say) some online friends and acquaintances in person for the first time: Karin and Cindi, great to meet you guys at last!  Fail: Logistical confusion ensued when some of us split off from the Twitter meetup at dinner and I didn’t get to hang out with Colleen and others I wanted to.  Can we try again at Midwinter?  Win: Made some unexpected new friends as well as seeing some old ones.

Win: I’m now the co-chair of Library Instruction Roundtable’s Teaching, Learning and Technology committee — we had a great discussion at our meeting and it looks like we’re going to do some sort of project based around reviewing/analyzing Libguides and its open-source competitors.  (Is there a name for programs like Libguides?  Research guide creator software?)

Cindi Trainor included my “How to make a Libguide” page on her Librarian’s Guide to LibGuides in the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase.  Thanks, Cindi!

Here’s my intended ALA conference schedule as it exists right now, Monday morning afternoon.  I haven’t filled in all the gaps yet, but if I don’t post it soon I won’t get around to it.

Thursday: Airplane!

Friday:

Library Instruction 2.0: Building Your Online Instruction Toolkit preconference (all day)

Maybe: LITA happy hour in the evening.

Saturday:

8:00: Try to catch the first hour or so of If We Don’t Call it Distance Learning, Does it Exist?

All morning: Library Instruction committee meetings.

1:30-3:30: LITA Social Software Showcase.

4-5:30: Science Fiction and Fantasy:  Looking at Information Technology and the Information Rights of the Individual (Cory Doctorow!)

Sunday:

8:30-10:00: The Highly Effective Job Search

10:30-12:00: Energize Your Instruction: Keep The Magic Alive for You and Your Audience

1:30-3:00: Either LITA Top Tech Trends or Privacy: Is it Time for a Revolution?

Monday: Airplane!