

Librarian of Things

Librarian of Things
	Weeknote 49 (2020)
§1 I don&#8217;t have much to report in regards to the work I&#8217;ve been doing this week. I tried to get our ORCiD-OJS plugin to work but there is some small strange bug that needs to be squished. Luckily, next week I will have the benefit of assistance from the good people of CRKN and &#8230; Continue reading "Weeknote 49 (2020)"
	Weeknote 48 (2020)
§1 First off is this recommended read from the November 17th issue of The New Yorker, The rise and fall of getting things done by Cal &#8216;Deep Work&#8217; Newport. As Newport himself describes his work, It’s not, however, really about David Allen’s productivity system, which longtime readers (and listeners) know I really admire. It’s instead &#8230; Continue reading "Weeknote 48 (2020)"
	Weeknote 47 (2020)
I had a staycation last week. It took me two days just to catch up on email I received while I was gone. And the only reason I was able to do that in two days is because I had booked the days off as meeting-free so I could attend an online conference. Said conference &#8230; Continue reading "Weeknote 47 (2020)"
	Weeknote 45 (2020)
Some things I was up to this past week: I registered for the Indigenous Mapping Workshop which will run Nov. 16-18; had meetings pertaining to servers and surveys; attended regular meetings including that of the University Library Advisory Committee, Leddy Library Department Heads, my bi-weekly meeting with Library Admin, and the WUFA Grievance Committee uploaded &#8230; Continue reading "Weeknote 45 (2020)"
	Weeknote 44 (2020)
This is my third week of weeknotes and I have to say that the format is agreeing with me. I did a quick search online to see if any other librarians have adopted this particular format and I couldn&#8217;t find anyone from the librarian profession so I have yet to become an influencer (*snerk*). I &#8230; Continue reading "Weeknote 44 (2020)"
	Weeknote 43 (2020)
This was the week that I planned to remove myself as much as possible from my regular working responsibilities and reconnect with my chosen community of Access 2020 which is the GOAT of conferences, in my books. This did not happen. Instead, I ended up working on a variety of management-related responsibilities and caught what &#8230; Continue reading "Weeknote 43 (2020)"
	Weeknotes : 42 (2020)
&#8220;Weeknotes are blogposts about our working week&#8221; Web of Weeknotes Having a set regular writing schedule seems to work for me. Since 2016, I send out a small set of recommended reads, games, and other things every Saturday morning via a TinyLetter to around 200 people. Since August of this year, I&#8217;ve managed to send &#8230; Continue reading "Weeknotes : 42 (2020)"
	Why would anyone pay $1500 to learn how to write notes?
Part one In 2018, musician and writer Claire L. Evans spoke at the XOXO Festival sharing some of the stories that she tells more fully in her book, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. It was from this presentation that I first learned about the Microcosm system &#8211; a &#8230; Continue reading "Why would anyone pay $1500 to learn how to write notes?"
	Noting well
Scribble, scribble, scribble (Eh! Mr Gibbon?) Last week I read an article that made me very uncomfortable. I had been diagnosed by the author and was found to be diseased. The Twittering Machine is powered by an insight at once obvious and underexplored: we have, in the world of the social industry, become “scripturient—possessed by &#8230; Continue reading "Noting well"
	Blogging is dead… here are some tips to manage your online working environment
Blogging is dead. Blogging as an ecosystem of blogrolls, blog rings, blog planets, RSS readers, and writers who link and respond to each other&#8230; it is long gone. Most people don&#8217;t even know that this network once existed, once thrived, and then was lost. That being said, I still believe blogging is good. Blogging can &#8230; Continue reading "Blogging is dead&#8230; here are some tips to manage your online working environment"