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Elements of Writing Style
(apologies to Elements of Style / William J. Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White) A writer’s task is to communicate whether they are bloggers, university students or lawyers. The form and content varies in each type of writing, but communicating clearly and precisely is fundamental to the writer’s task. The writer needs an engaged reader, but […]
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Bobbi Newman Rocks
I love singer Holly Cole and I think I read long ago she was learning to play the drums. Why do something crazy like that? It was a creative release and very personal, without musicians judging her. As librarians we are not a group known for innovation, despite our solid reputation. Before I say “I […]
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Observe then Analyze
My friends know I don’t make new year’s resolutions as it is hard to change habits and the resolutions set us up for a fall. They tend not to be small and incremental. If you have done job evaluations, you know about SMART objectives for measuring performance or project management. But I do think we […]
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Peter Hogg on Constitutional Law
Peter Hogg kind of fell into teaching constitutional law, when no one else wanted to teach the course at Osgoode Hall Law School. I found this anecdote amusing from the ex-New Zealander at his recent talk for the Toronto Association of Law Libraries. In 1971, Hogg and Canada was in a vastly different landscape, as […]
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Copyright Course
Lesley Ellen Harris is the guru for librarians and copyright issues. I have read her book on digital copyright and completed her course called Managing Copright Information. At first I was a bit intimidated about the course as it is 16 lesson over 6 weeks. But they are manageable chunks and take about half hour, […]
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Parallel Smartphone Situation
Smartphones and sewing machines in the same sentence? Read on about patent thicket or patent wars of competing sewing machines in 1800s. As I have a soft spot for sewing, I appreciated this post. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/10/28/why-is-a-smartphone-like-a-sewing-machine/ – Brenda
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Leaders and managers
Old and new ideas sometimes come together in a smooth blend. Vicki Whitmell wrote about building leadership skills and how it is different from being a manager in TALL Quarterly (membership only) from the Toronto Association of Law Libraries. Once I held the position of the library manager, but it was short-lived and I needed […]
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Tags: leadership, managing
The California Project
It has been a good news/bad news scenario for Jane Doe in California. If you live in Palo Alto, you could pop into a patient health library and get some accurate info instead of trawling around the Internet to find out possible claims about goji berries and their efficacy. The wow factor is that this […]
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Tags: community outreach, health library, Outsourcing, privatizing, public library
PechaKucha
I hate Powerpoint presentations normally, when I am researching for legal topics from seminars for lawyers. But my manager Katharine Thompson has been experimenting with PechaKucha, which takes advantage of PowerPoint’s strengths. It is an effective use of PowerPoint slides with 1 image per theme or thought. The format consists of 20 slides shown in 6 minutes […]
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Tags: 2010 AALL, conferences, PechaKucha, Training Ideas
Imagining E-books
As always in the hoopla and hype about new generation of e-readers, the discussion of content has been neglected. I also imagine the future like Karen, and I want to see more enriched content in e-books. As a kid I loved the Anne of Green Gables books, and in my perfect e-book there would be […]
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Tags: e-books, Publishing
Brenda Wong
Karen Sawatzky
