‘Libraries’ Category

Seriously?

Seriously?

I don’t even know where to start. You get off the blogging boat and the next thing you know, your reality has almost nothing to do with the reality you had in the last post. If that even makes sense……

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Library School Was Helpful: Card Sorting

Library School Was Helpful: Card Sorting

Card Sorting is a very specific method employed when you need to come up with a structure or architecture for a web site. You write out all of the pertinent bits on cards and then have stakeholders or users sort …

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Female, 15, Immodest

Female, 15, Immodest

My new desk is amid the compact shelving units for most of the Dewey run — i.e. where all of the old Reference books live. They are out of print, some falling apart, and they sit here waiting until someone …

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No Corvallis for Me

No Corvallis for Me

I didn’t get the Corvallis job, either. I just got a call telling me my interview skills were just fabulous and I was a pleasure to meet etc., etc. I’m wondering if, after two failed interviews in a row, it …

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Doors opening and closing (and all of that business)

Doors opening and closing (and all of that business)

So I didn’t get the Vancouver job, which I sort of had guessed by Friday. I had my official day of mourning on Saturday, which is a new tradition. Basically I have the habit of immediately trying to see the …

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