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10 Jan 2012

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you might have known this was coming

Hi! So, given that I haven’t shown up in these parts for over a year, you might be thinking that I’m only popping in to tell you that I’m shutting down this blog, once and for all. If so, props to you! You are right. The truth is, I am an intermittent blogger at best [...]


library day in the life: observations

As I mentioned last week, one of the reasons why I participated in the Library Day in the Life meme was because it provided a good opportunity to track my daily activities for a week. I guess I have enough of a non-traditional job title that I get a fair amount of email from librarians [...]


library day in the life: Friday

AM Conference planning meeting. McMaster is hosting WILU 2010 (which is a library-ish conference about information literacy, active learning, &c.) in May of next year. I am on the planning team and we’re furiously making plans for an awesome conference. Create practice bibliography and gather reference questions for mentoring meeting. Mentoring meeting. Customize 2 Drupal [...]


library day in the life: Thursday

AM Endeca Development Team meeting. Discuss testing results and issues that need resolving before going live with upgrade to next version (which I’m calling 1.5, since 2.0 is already under development and will be radically different). Decide to move upgrade to next week. Quick coffee with few colleagues. Head into meeting room for the Handheld [...]


library day in the life: Wednesday

AM Review calendar. Rejoice over large block of free time in the middle of the day. Things will get done! One-hour download from programmer who is leaving us next week (these folks are lucky to get him). He has done some awesome research and programming work on a recommendation engine over the past few months. [...]




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