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I’m very pleased to announce that I’ll be joining Georgia State University as the new Web Services Librarian starting June 1st! This is a very exciting opportunity, and I’ll be joining a great team.

I’ll still be sad to leave Valdosta, though, since this is my ( Read more... )

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I’m 30 years old.  As of last Thursday.  Most of my life has happened in my last 30 years and nine months (Thanks Mom!) traveling around the Sun, and I’ve learned a few things, but one message has been nagging me the last month or two.

The life-changing experience.
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I was both flattered and excited to be interviewed on the T is for Training podcast.  I first met the host, Maurice, when he and I both attended a session at a conference and I cyberstalked him by sending him a Twitter message saying that I was sitting right behind ( Read more... )

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I’ve been playing around with drawing lately, trying to beef up my skills.  As a beginning artist starting later in life, I’m having to shut off that part of my brain that judges every last thing I do.  I’m trying instead to return to my childhood; as a child ( Read more... )

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Here’s some of the projects I’ve been working on in the last few months:

• GIL-Find - An installation of the VuFind social catalog interface.  It’s currently being tested at several institutions across the state, and ours is one of them!  The students love it, and it ( Read more... )

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I did this book, entitled “The Journals of Cambrin de Soto” (hence the big “C” on the cover) for my awesome, hilarious, and talented friend Jenica.


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And now for something completely different, to distract you from LibraryLand.  This is me firehooping a few years ago for a couple of friends.

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I don’t typically do comment posts, but I would like to comment on a post by Merlin Mann over at 43 folders.  In it, Mann explores his growing skill in photography, and the uncomfortable feelings that we get when we’re learning something new and have to realize ( Read more... )

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I’ve shared my thoughts on anger with friends and family members, and folks have asked me to write them down-so here you go.  It can all be summed up into a single aphorism:

We get angry when we see someone violating values that we hold dear.

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The highlight of the conference’s programming (for me) came on Day 3, when I got to sit front and center to see danah boyd present on social network sites. Always a brilliant thinker and speaker, she definitely wowed the audience, and got us fired up to defend ( Read more... )