As part of my campaign for LITA Board, I’m interviewing a wide range of library techonology people about their involvement with the association. Today’s interviewee is Emily Ford. This interview is a bit different from the others: Emily is a former LITA member who left. I’m really glad to have had the chance to talk [...]
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LITA Listening Tour Episode 4: Emily Ford
February 20th, 2013 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
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my #c4l13 lightning talk: five conversations about coding
February 16th, 2013 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
I gave this lightning talk at Code4Lib 2013, February 13 in Chicago. I’m Andromeda Yelton, and I’m going to take you on a quick waltz through five conversations about coding. I don’t have time in five minutes to draw the arrow that connects them all, so I leave that for you. Conversation 1: computer science [...]
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LITA Listening Tour Episode 3: Breanne Kirsch
February 6th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
As part of my campaign for LITA Board, I’m interviewing a wide range of LITAns about their involvement with the association. Today’s interviewee is Breanne Kirsch. ABOUT BREANNE KIRSCH Librarianship is Breanne Kirsch’s second career — before this, she was a primate zookeeper for 2 years at the Birmingham Zoo in Alabama. Her background is [...]
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virtual campaign swag
February 1st, 2013 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
The internet told me I should make swag for my campaign (I’m running for LITA Board), so I did (even though gotta say, feels egotistical even for me!). At any rate, if you saw me at Midwinter, maybe you ended up with a sticker. But, asked a friend, what about those of you not at [...]
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LITA Listening Tour Episode 2: Ken Varnum
January 17th, 2013 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
As part of my campaign for LITA Board, I’m interviewing a wide range of LITAns about their involvement with the association. Today’s interviewee is Ken Varnum. About Ken Varnum Ken Varnum is the Web Systems Manager at the University of Michigan Library, where he manages the library web site and development of new features and [...]
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LITA Listening Tour Episode 1: Frank Skornia
January 17th, 2013 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
In case you missed it, I’m running for LITA Board, as a Director-at-Large for 2013-2016. (Check out the full list of candidates.) Win or lose, I want to make sure my campaign is a learning experience that produces something of value. And it turns out being a candidate is a great excuse to meet people [...]
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how to get me to want you as a keynoter
January 13th, 2013 · 19 Comments · Uncategorized
All of the Twitters pointed me today to this Hi Miss Julie! post on who does and doesn’t get attention in librarianship and why. (It’s good; go read it.) The bit that jumped out at me: I want people to listen to what I have to say. I want to be offered speaking engagements, to [...]
Wanna get involved in LITA? Here’s how: your turn.
January 11th, 2013 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Having spent the last few years immersing myself in LITA, I’m trying to articulate things I’ve learned in case you want to get involved, too, but are looking for places to start. The whole series can be read at the how to get involved in LITA tag. Here’s the last post! Your turn So I [...]
Wanna get involved in LITA? Here’s how, part VI.
January 10th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Having spent the last few years immersing myself in LITA, I’m trying to articulate things I’ve learned in case you want to get involved, too, but are looking for places to start. The whole series can be read at the how to get involved in LITA tag. Stay tuned for one more tomorrow! Formal documents: [...]
Wanna get involved in LITA? Here’s how, part V.
January 9th, 2013 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Having spent the last few years immersing myself in LITA, I’m trying to articulate things I’ve learned in case you want to get involved, too, but are looking for places to start. The whole series can be read at the how to get involved in LITA tag. Stay tuned for more over the next few [...]
