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Correction, it’s LINT not ALIA
Thank you Kathryn for correcting me.
It seems that the postings that inspired my idea of a Featured Visitor series if from LINT not ALIA. There are many people who overlap in membership but it’s not the same thing. I love being corrected like this because it means I’m that much closer to understanding [...]
Do you write reviews for any online booksellers?
Not like I need another avenue to express my opinion, but I’ve somehow become addicted to writing reviews for Amazon.ca. As you can see on my Amazon.ca Profile Page, I’ve only written a few but it’s a lot of fun. Considering I use reviews to make purchase recommendations for my library, it’s really [...]
Posted by Laurie on April 30th, 2007 under Laurie speaks! | Comment now »Would you like to be a Featured Visitor?
I’m about to go on vacation, May 8th to the 23rd, in Ontario to visit family and attend and present at WILU 2007. While I’m gone, it’d be great to find a way from keeping this blog looking stale. WordPress allows me to set postings to be released at a later date and [...]
Posted by Laurie on April 28th, 2007 under Featured Visitor, Laurie speaks! | 3 Comments »12 minute online animated presentation on how I used Google Co-op to create a custom search engine
Since I couldn’t afford to travel down south yet again for another conference, the lovely organizers of the Media Exchange Cooperative (MEC) Annual General Meeting made arrangements for me to do my presentation for the panel on Library 2.0, part of the annual conference/AGM for MEC, through a “Breeze’d” presentation.
Thank you to Shawn [...]
New book released on Information Literacy by the leading international authority, Susie Andretta
No, I’m not getting any money from this plug. I just feel strongly that Susie Andretta’s last book, Information Literacy: A Practitioner’s Guide (2004), was the number one best book out there on information literacy so I’ve been dying for her next one. Since Andretta’s book came out, she has been frequently quoted [...]
Posted by Laurie on April 27th, 2007 under Laurie speaks! | Comment now »The new year-long maternity leave is changing Canadian society… why not the library world too?
That’s right, the relatively new implementation of the year-long maternity leave by the Canadian government is changing society. This is not the maternity leave of my mother’s generation. Mom — I still don’t understand how you did it! Only six weeks off???
Within my circle of friends a mini-baby boom has started [...]
Why you’re crazy if you’re NOT submitting your LIS output to E-LIS
Benefits to using E-LIS over hosting it on your own server, website, etc.:
The number one rule of data preservation is to store it in multiple locations, E-LIS is offering to do this for you for free. You can’t beat free!
The server is in Italy. For non-European LIS professionals, that’s extreme disaster planning [...]
Watch a great Evidence-Based Librarianship Conference unfold online!
You probably have heard me wax poetic about my favourite new journal, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. It’s Open Access (i.e. free online yet still peer-reviewed), check it out! Since I’m relatively new to EBL, although I think most of us are since it only recently entered our professional lexicon, I’ve been [...]
Posted by Laurie on April 25th, 2007 under Conferences | 1 Comment »For those of you waiting for the digital copy of my handout on creating Online Animated Tutorials (OATs), it’s now available
Thank you to the four people who were kind enough to check with me first before deciding to distribute my handout to people who could not attend my BC Library Conference. That was very respectful of you. It also reinforced my belief of the power of handouts, but that’s another topic of conversation [...]
Posted by Laurie on April 24th, 2007 under Laurie speaks! | 1 Comment »If you want to be a good presenter, here is a list of recommended things to do
I’ve got conferences on the brain! And I’ve come to the realization that I have some very strong opinions about what I think is required to ensure a good presenter:
You must…
practice your presentation at least once beforehand.
do what you can to make eye contact with your audience for as long as you can.
have a [...]
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