http://thepinakes.com from papyrus to pdf Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:59:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I flew to Los Angeles a couple weeks ago to attend the second half of the Statewide California Electronic Libraries Consortium’s (SCELC) annual Colloquium & Vendor Day hosted at Loyola Marymount University (I was unable to attend the first day because I was leading a four-hour intensive information literacy workshop ... http://thepinakes.com/2012/03/trip-report-scelc-vendor-day/ I'll be a participant in a panel during the Library 2.011 Worldwide Virtual Conference. Our program, Riding the "Long Tail": Leveraging a Niche to Build a Network, focuses on the niche professional networks and interests enabled and encouraged by the use of social media tools. It will be moderated by ... http://thepinakes.com/2011/10/riding-the-long-tail/ Saturday night, the Information Amateurs Social Club gathered at the special pour-your-own-beer keg table at San Francisco's Mad Dog in the Fog, a Lower Haight pub. I never got an exact count of attendees as it ebbed and flowed all night (much like the tap!) but it was well over ... http://thepinakes.com/2011/08/tapping-into-information/ This past week I got to attend my very first American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, a dizzying gathering of over 20,000 librarians (a far cry from the 1876 inaugural event, with its paltry 103 attendees). I got to attend various professional presentations, meet online contacts and make friends in ... http://thepinakes.com/2011/07/dewey-his-decimals-ala-in-nola/ Recently I went to Philadelphia for a four day library conference. This one is about my first day in Philly, before the conference started. The city was not what I expected. I arrived at the Philadelphia Airport Tuesday evening and hitched a ride into downtown Philly on their commuter rail. It ... http://thepinakes.com/2011/04/hipsterdelphia-pt-1/ Last week on my tumblr I posted about how if I had a life list, going to see the complete Ring Cycle would be on it (a goal I will accomplish this spring). There's another thing that would also be on my life list, if I had one (and I ... http://thepinakes.com/2011/01/a-century/ I admit I haven't been blogging much lately (though I do have some ideas swirling around my head, especially on Information Literacy, so hopefully I'll write them down soon), but I have been tumbling. If you're so inclined, follow me there. http://thepinakes.com/2011/01/tumbl-bumble/ Locke Morrisey, Head of Collections, Reference and Research at the University of San Francisco's Gleeson Library, passed away today, the victim of cancer. Locke served as my supervisor during my internship in Gleeson's Reference Department in the fall of 2008 and I cannot begin to describe the degree to which ... http://thepinakes.com/2010/12/locke-morrisey-rip/ I'm now a couple weeks into my new permanent position at Holy Names University and I've finally started to process everything that's going on around me. We're a small university and the summer is very quiet on campus, so while the library hums along with just a handful of users ... http://thepinakes.com/2010/07/the-state-of-things/ http://thepinakes.com/2010/07/diptych-angular/