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IM web conference

Thank you to everyone who attended my web conference this afternoon on IM reference! The handout is here. We started a bit late as a result of some file upload issues (totally my fault!), so I apologize for skipping over the last few slides and cutting short the Q&A. If you have any questions about [...]


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22 Oct 2006

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another one done!

My second workshop is done, now I get to kick back and enjoy the rest of the show! Thank you to everyone who attended the IM workshop – it was fun and I certainly learned a lot, hope you all did too! For those who there, here are the resources I rushed through at the [...]


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4 May 2006

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IM: where we’ve been, where we’re going

I gave a talk on IM to a great bunch of librarians at Wilfred Laurier University this morning. Most of it was about our experience with IM over the past year, it was a great excuse to spend some time pouring over our logs and crunching the numbers. Brief recap of our first year: good, [...]


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24 Mar 2006

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CiL: Virtual Teaching Moments

Clara Hudson, University of Scranton; and me! Again with the poor note-taking since I was up on stage. Clara got our session going by outlining the research she’s been doing with the virtual reference logs for her VR consortium. The part that stood out the most was that her initial assumption, going into the project, [...]


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22 Mar 2006

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CiL: Building Communities with IM

Michael Stephens, Dominican University; Aaron Schmidt, Thomas Ford Memorial Library; and me! Truth is, I didn’t really blog this session. I still haven’t figured out the art of blogging a session of which I am a part, I can’t seem to get away from the double-edged sword of note-taking assisting in my general comprehension of [...]