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18 Dec 2007

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the year in sentences

First spotted on Walt’s blog, and seen on many others since, here are the first sentences of the first posts of every month in 2007 here at bwal.net. The missing August and September? That’s not me forgetting my months of the year, it’s me being a hopelessly inconsistent and generally lazy blogger. Can you expect [...]


e-info global

Got back yesterday from the 2nd Annual E-Info Global Symposium at the University of Alabama Huntsville, which focused on technology, innovation and change in academic libraries. And what a great conference it was! Excellent speakers, fascinating conversations, and fabulously friendly people (those Southerners!). I did something I haven’t done in a good, long time: I [...]


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27 Nov 2007

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LIS students rock

Today was good. I gave a quickie guest lecture at my friend Laura Anderson’s Intro to Reference class at the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. I mentioned in the class that I felt like I was trapped in a weird personal time warp because the last time I was in a [...]


how I spent my research leave

I was on research leave for four weeks this summer, and I spent my time exploring information architecture, usability, and user experience design. I had good intentions of blogging throughout my leave, both about the topic in specific, and the research leave process in general, but for whatever reason, it didn’t happen. I still have [...]


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1 Oct 2007

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RSS means never having to say you’re sorry

Remember me? I used to blog here. It was with a great deal of sheepishness that I sent off my request for a “Blogger” ribbon for Internet Librarian. I fully expected a response that said “Ha ha! A Blogger ribbon for you? Good one!”, but, of course, the Information Today folks are too polite for [...]




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