Life
Stressed: Organize your life and de-stress !
Like | robinna | Jan 17, 2014 | CMS, Life, Professional Life
For librarians, stress comes from many sources: building renovations and other changes in physical spaces; interactions with colleagues; changes and problems with technology and systems; new or outdated policies and procedures; more demanding workplaces; multitasking; institutional culture; and family, health, and life situations. Even managing stress can itself be a stressor. Stress not only impacts productivity and morale, but getting out from under the avalanche ...
One world, one blog – merging identities, merging blogs
Like | robinna | Nov 15, 2012 | History of Technology, Life, my art, my projects, twitter
robinart 2006ish So, I had a personal/art blog over at my domain (robinart.com) from 2004-2007 (prior to that, it was just a very simple site). This blog was an early experiment in using a CMS (Content Management System); originally, a photoblog (more about the software & history here); later, a place to talk about software, my projects, and life in general. It was a good run, ...
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Catching up…
Like | robinna | Nov 5, 2012 | Life
I know I’ve been woefully lax about posting to contentdivergent lately. Lots of news and updates coming soon. I attended the International Literacy Conference (presented on the ACRL literacy standards for Visual literacy through a lens of digital objects, specifically images), presented at COMO (metadata in a social world; linkeddata) and attended a regional IT conference. I did not make it drupalcamp this year. Oh, ...
On burning books – thoughts on books as sacred object vs. knowledge holders
Like | robinna | Oct 10, 2012 | Libraries, Life
I stumbled across an interesting post from a librarian who created a display for banned book week. Of course, this wasn’t just any old poster session about Banned Book Week — no, this one actually contained books that she had burned. Responding to some feedback about this particular display and her actions, Jessica blogged these thoughts: Personally? I love books. Love them to pieces. I’m ...
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Musings on the illusion of Facebook friendship
Like | robinna | Sep 1, 2012 | Life, social media, social media policy
I’m going to have to say that Facebook has been an interesting social experiment. In terms of brands, businesses, and institutions, I think it is a great tool in marketing and building community support. In terms of personal accounts, I’m just not sure. Maybe moving everyone to a page platform where it is public or private (sounds very twitter like, mmm?) would clarify things. Because ...
On being TOO connected / Information overload
Like | robinna | Aug 9, 2012 | Life, social media
This is somewhat humorous… Definitely some truth in there, tho..
Search terms (a case study: article on automation and staffing)
Like | robinna | Aug 6, 2012 | Libraries, Library Catalogs (ILS), Life, meetups/conferences, metadata, metrics/statistics, Search engines/browsers, web 2.0+
I always find it interesting to see what search terms people use to find what they are looking for (or not looking for). On that note, I thought I would share a quick behind the scenes of keyword searching for my article, The Effect of Automation on Academic Library Staffing: A Discussion . There is no abstract or keywords attached to this title, so the ...
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Digital literacy: Are social media skills required for success?
Like | robinna | Mar 2, 2012 | Life, social media
Interesting article about the impact of social media on employee skill expectations and the rise of social media training programs. “Pamela Tate, president and chief executive of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, based in Chicago, said digital literacy, including understanding social networking, is now a required skill. They are essential skills that are needed to operate in the world and in the workplace,” ...
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Facebook kills library’s historical profiles
Like | robinna | Jan 11, 2012 | History of Technology, Libraries, Life, social media, watch.see.hear
Sooo… Facebook has already killed the historical profile accounts which were written about well… just about everywhere (Google Joe McDonald) although it seems like they also killed a potentially great PR and marketing campaign. “While McDonald and Lewis initially only had friends who were distant relatives, their lists of connections swelled from just over 100 each to more than 1,000. They were featured in Mashable, ...