Last night I attended the CILIP ILIG and CILIP in London AGMs which were followed by an entertaining talk by Phil Bradley on traveling for librarianship and social media. The talk brought back memories of a talk I gave four years ago at ALA about making the most of working overseas, secondments, conferences, and if [...]
Last weekend, I read The Information Diet by Clay Johnson. These days before I buy almost anything from a book to a vacuum cleaner I check online reviews. Reviews for this book were mixed, but positive enough for me to buy it. I needed something new on media bias and a reminder to not be [...]
Today, January 18, is a day of widespread Internet blackouts to oppose Protect IP Act and Stop Online Privacy Act, PIPA and SOPA in the US. Just about every post from every country in my RSS reader this morning is discussing this topic. Global Voices has a particularly good post on the issues, and importantly, [...]
School, and what comes after
Meredith has a great post on her research workflow over at Information Wants to Be Free. My research needs are a little different now that I am no longer working in an academic library. When I had access to scholarly databases everyday from my desktop, I was reading the literature far more regularly than I [...]