Hi. For those of you just getting to this from the LDitL wiki, my name is Sarah Glassmeyer and I am the Faculty Services and Outreach Librarian at Valparaiso University School of law. This is my day: 7:15 am – I am awakened by my alarm clock going off. This is already a bad sign for ...
Over the past day, I’ve probably seen at least a dozen links via Twitter, Facebook and Friendfeed to NPR blogger Linda Holmes’ recent assertion that Libraries may be the next big pop-culture wave. And just last week, spurred by Andy Woodworth, the “Old Spice Guy” made a short video promoting libraries. It even got ...
I am recently returned from my 5th AALL annual meeting. There are many things I could write about with regards to this meeting…the fun of hanging out with Internet friends in meatspace, my nervousness at having my sister be a presenter, the excitement of finally getting to “meat” people that I’ve only known online, reuniting with ...
SCENE : EXT – MEAN STREETS OF CRYSTAL CITY, VIRGINIA – NIGHT. I’m attending the Computers in Libraries conference. My conference husband and I were walking a friend back to her hotel (which was located approximately in West Virginia) for the night. We are approached by a couple drunkenly swaying towards ...
The following is the text of a 5 minute ignite speech that I gave as part of the CALI Conference Friday Plenary. The presentation slides appear here. The formatting will seem odd… those are my slide change breaks. CALI Ignite Speech Howdy. My name is Sarah Glassmeyer and I am a librarian. Don’t let the ...
Last year at AALL, my colleague Jason Eiseman and I brought and handed out badge ribbons that said “Cool Kids.” It was meant as a joke. Some people got it, some people didn’t….but almost everyone who saw the ribbon started a conversation with us about it. Since one of the great things about librarian ...
Outreach Librarian is in some ways the job title equivalent of “other duties as assigned.” For me, that means that I’m responsible for my library’s blog and other Web 2.0 endeavors. Like many library blogs, ours is on life support, if not officially dead. Library blogs are dead. Blogging is not as easy as it seems. Sure, ...
FTC Disclosure: Wolters Kluwers provided travel to and accommodations in New York City, breakfast and lunch, a free six month trial subscription and a travels incidentals stipend (which was just enough to cover cab fare) for me to attend a “bloggers workshop” and preview this product early last month. To start off, I was not an ...
June is here and that means that it’s librarian conference season. (Mothers, lock up your daughters and unsorted books…the librarians are coming to town!) For me, it also means that it’s unconference season, because I am coordinating an unconference at every conference that I’m attending. This post is an omnibus publicity post for all of ...
A funny thing happened on my way to the Chicago Law.gov meeting… A little over a week ago, I got asked to look at local states’ online legal materials offerings so that I could give a brief spiel on them at the Chicago law.gov workshop. (I’ll tell you more about what I found in a minute.) ...