Today is a semi pay-it-forward day…It’s 3lOg Day The general plan is to introduce someone else to 5 new or off-the-beaten-path blogs. You tell someone, and so on, and so on… Here’s my kooky, mostly non-LIS related list:
- Birding Babylon – first heard about this New England soldier on the radio. Chronicles his hobby as a birder and observer of natural history while on tour of duty in Iraq. Read it.
- Megnut – Meg Hourihan is certainly not unkown (a co-creator of Blogger), but I found her blog while doing some research for a program. Megnut covers her side hobby as a foody and avid reader of epicurean lit. It’s nice to see someone else who appreciates this genre.
- Chocolate & Zucchini I am a long time lover of all things French, this is another foody blog authored by Clothilde, a software engineer living in Montmartre, one of my favorite parts of of Paris. C&Z also includes enticing photos of culinary delectables and high-end cookery (!)
- etc. You all know Amanda Etches-Johnson from her blogwithoutalibrary blog. I am still trying to teach myself to knit. In the meantime, I’m inspired by all of her crafty powers.
- Tales of whey, get it? Bovine Bugle blog. Stories of cows and a family running an organic dairy farm in Vermont. Doesn’t get more wholesome than this.
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming…
You start thinking too hard about what you’re going to wear when you talk to the student athletes returning to campus! Can I wear the sparkly tee AND the Fluevogs? This is the last week of business casual before school starts (we can’t wear jeans, although I’ve tested the waters on a Sunday or two) and I try really hard not look either business casual or too much like the librarian stereotype. I even retired my Danskos after my last semester in grad school. The reference librarians here have been meeting with the academic arm of the athletic program this summer, brainstorming how we can better serve the student athletes. I really hope students will be less reluctant to stop at the reference desk after we drop in at the team meet & greets. I also hope they’ll be more likely to drop me an IM (or email even) after we get a chance to talk to them about some of the new things happening at the library.
I’ll be talking to librarians in RI about Trillian in November for the Office of Library and Information Services’ (OLIS) Continuing Education program. OLIS offers free CE programs for every variety of librarian throughout RI. Pretty cool service.
After today’s painful rss lessons learned (all self-inflicted) over on the ASIST conference blog, I was rescued, yet again, by the fabulous support from Blake at lishost. Every time I think I’ve asked the most annoying question evah, he still comes through. I’ve been faking it on the RSS front, and that’s just lazy. I know what it means, I know what it does for me in my Thunderbird mail, in Bloglines, etc. but I haven’t done any real investigating on all of the possibilities. I’m just a user. .92, 1.0 or 2.0 — who knows, I’ve just been upgrading ‘cuz that’s what you’re supposed to do right? The higher version is always better, blah, blah. I’m not saying I’ll devote a lot of brain matter to said possibilities, but I will try to be more informed, like Ken over at rss4lib. I think that since my library has III and no rss capability yet, there hasn’t been a big rush for me to ponder its use beyond my PIM needs. I think rss clips in our subject guides will be an obvious first place in the future.
I’m back from the land of silence. Anyone playing with Google Talk yet? I’ve been pining for this for a while. You do need to have a gmail account. If you want to play with GT but somehow still need a gmail account, ping me. First come, first served of course.
