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My Setup
In response to Paul’s suggestion that all blogjune-ers post on the same day, here are my answers. Paul’s suggestion: One of the blogs I follow is The Setup. This site, run by Daniel Bogan (ex Flickr...
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Advice to information studies students. Call me Karl and fill in those unit...
You know those “please give feedback on the unit” surveys we ask you to fill in at the end of the unit? Please fill them in. Please also pretend my name is Karl Greenhill, presume that I am...
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So, I wrote on the walls…
I need to do some writing in the next month or so. And have time to do it. So very happy about this. I think the “ultimate work environment” question from the My Setup post on Wednesday stuck a bit....
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Low-cost, low-tech reading journal system ?
I need to do a lot of reading in the next few weeks. I learn best if I make written notes as I read, even if I never look at the notes again. Something about having to encapsulate the meaning in my own...
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Don’t read this post
Go follow the hashtag the New Librarians Symposium 8 instead. #NLS8 Or read the programme. Or find a new librarian and be extra nice to them if they are not there. No related posts.
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Advice to New Librarians 1: A career break is OK
I will admit it. I’ve had coffee with Mylee Joseph. If you were at the New Librarians Symposium 8 where she keynoted last Saturday, then you will know that an occupational hazard of this is …...
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Advice to New Librarians 2: know your values
As I mentioned in my post from yesterday, the very nice Mylee Joseph asked me whether I had any “hot tips you’d like to share with newbie library types” for her New Librarians Symposium 8 keynote....
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Blogjune time travel questions
In gratitude for Paul’s suggestion that all blogjune-ers post about the same topic on the same day, I created a pre-packaged question and offered it to other #blogjune folk as a topic for today. Or –...
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Thanks & goaty Ferraris
Thanks to all who played along with my #blogjune challenge. I was going to summarise these, but… Both my sons received excellent school reports today, beating their personal bests and getting the best...
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So much more still to say …
… and nothing stopping me from saying it here after #blogjune has finished … but I suspect that I will pipe down a bit for a while. I still haven’t responded to Paul’s discussion of Content as...
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Weekly posting – I’m in…
Okay, so we seem to have started A Thing here… Moral: Be careful about the throwaway comments you make on Twitter. The way Con tells it, it was me. She enabled. So did snail and Kate and Andrew and...
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Tweeting your new blog post automatically
In my last post, I mentioned that I have used RSS feed readers to keep up with #blogjune in the past, first Google Reader, then on its demise I used feedly . In the last couple of years, though, I...
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What’s your blog all about ?
When people suggested the weekly #glamblogweekly posts, I wrote a very long post as my first one, which I have ended up chopping into a few posts. So, here’s my question for this week… What I would...
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Data privacy for information professionals
Watching from afar this week the VALA Tech Boot Camp in Melbourne and the Radical Librarians Collective meeting in Glasgow, it was interesting to see sessions at both about data privacy and security....
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Help! Soundcloud alternative?
Do you know a nice, stable, likely long-lived service that allows people to record audio online and then embed a player into another website? HINT: Soundcloud may be the wrong answer. I want ANOTHER...
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Iterative and incremental evaluation of what we do in libraries. Movie.
Do Australian academic libraries evaluate their learning projects often, in different ways and then act on it? Today, 14 February 2018, I am presenting at a paper on the topic that I co-wrote with...
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Control those tabs ! Five web browser tab tips.
This was me. Does it sound like you ? Too many tabs open in my browser …I think 64 was my record. In just one window. I am also a great “that is too messy, so I will open a nice, clean window” (but not...
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Ten years after Peak Biblioblogging
I would put the peak of Libraryland blogging (liblogging, biblioblogging) at around June 2007 to June 2008. (Well, extremely white, educated, academic, US-centric, liberal blogging about libraries...
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Text analysis and visualisation tools for literature searches
I’m beginning to play with visual tools for text analysis. Here’s some useful resources and explanation why. In a bit of an “aha!” moment last week, I realised that a problem with my research into...
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Linked Open Data in the Humanities seminar at Curtin University HIVE, 27 July...
Today I attended the LAMLOD Oz seminar at the HIVE at work. You can see full details of the presenters and their expertise in the link, but it is described by Eric Champion, who convened the meeting...
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