Should Librarians Learn to Code In School?
The Hack Lib School blog (useful for reading for students and those no longer in school, FYI) tackled the essential and perhaps unanswerable question of “Does LIS Education Need More Tech?” What they...
View ArticleSeparating the Professional from the Personal and Finding the Best Way to Do So
Today’s essential question: How does one keep your library life separate from the rest of you? In the years I have been active in the library sphere on social media, I went for the “why bother?”...
View ArticleDrupal Camp CT
After a two week hiatus for the Olympics (because swimming, track and other sports one can only see ever four years trumps librarianship, at least in my world), I’m back to the blog (as well as a...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
A Happy and Healthy New Year to all my readers, as well as a Happy Russian Orthodox Christmas and Three Kings Day (both of which are today) to those who celebrate. It’s been a while, I know. Work was...
View ArticleWho Rule The World? Girls–A Look at the Scholarly Literature on Gender and...
Today (1 March) is the first day of Women’s History Month. Earlier this week, the United States public television network PBS aired MAKERS: Women Who Make America, a 3 hour documentary on the past 50...
View ArticleOn Awards and Statistics and (Ir)Relevancy
(N.B. – I’m going to get back to the gender and librarians series after the holiday weekend. Scholarly research and Bailey’s Irish Cream do not mix. Youth Services libs, I still welcome your...
View ArticleTech Interlude: Git to the Hub
Yesterday, thanks to a great tutorial from the Library Code Year Interest Group, I completed my first successful project on GitHub. If you don’t know what GitHub is, it’s a web-based open source...
View ArticleTech Interlude #2 – I Built a Drupal Thing!
Drupal was on my radar since August, when I went to Drupal Camp CT. (Read about those experiences here.) After camp, Life got in the way, so any tinkering with Drupal was put off to the side….for over...
View ArticleI am Powered By Drupal!
First, the good stuff: It’s ALIVE! You can go to katekosturski.com, which will redirect you to katekosturski.info and you can see my shiny new Drupal site. I am officially powered by Drupal! (I may...
View ArticleWho Rule the World? Girls – Part 2a: When the Bullied Becomes the Bully
Library-land has had more than its fair share of Internet bullying of late (see this and this) and I thought I had seen it all. I thought we had reached the darkest portions of the ugly underbelly of...
View ArticleThe No Library Whining Zone: A Social Experiment
Call it refreshed perspective from the double-team of ACRL and a relaxing holiday in Florida, but I came back to find that library land seems to have gotten their knickers in a knot of late. If it...
View ArticleThe No Library Whining Zone: The End…or The Beginning? (and Prizes!)
First, a quick update on my anxiety inducer, the ALA Elections. I ran for – believe it or not – three offices: New Members Round Table: Yes! I’m your new Leadership Development Director! Reference...
View ArticleShow Me the Awesome: The No Library Whining Zone Experiment
This blog post is part of the Show Me the Awesome: 30 Days of Self-Promotion blog series, started by Sophie Brookover, Liz Burns, and Kelly Jensen. Artwork by the (extremely talented) John Lemasney....
View ArticleHey Libraries: It’s Not Me, It’s You
So Librarian Drupalvangelist Nina McHale announced that she is leaving her current library job as of 10 June to work outside the field for a Drupal developer. Coupled with a co-worker announcing his...
View ArticleHey Libraries: It’s Not Me, It’s You Part 2: Who Gets to Keep the Couch?
Every breakup features that moment where the recently split couple figures out who gets what – the couch, the dog, the mutual friends. The reason I got to host a radio show my senior year of college?...
View ArticleThe Value of the MLS: Time To Do Something About It.
My friend Matthew Ciszek posted this on Facebook recently: Instead of bitching about how horrible our experiences in library school were and how the MLS or MLIS degree did nothing to prepare us for the...
View ArticleALA Annual Conference: The Rants and the Raves
And now for the obligatory end of conference wrap-up post, as I have just returned from the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. I was very excited to attend this year’s...
View ArticleOn New Librarianship, Technology, and Innovation
My July has been taken up with the Syracuse University iSchool New Librarianship Master Class taught by R. David Lankes. It has been some time since I took (and admittedly, finished) a MOOC. In my...
View ArticleBreaking: Southern CT State University Library School Loses ALA Accreditation
Now that I have a moment to sit still, I was all ready to talk about presenting at New York Comic-Con, the Internet Librarian conference, I Need a Library Job, and all sorts of other things – but then...
View Article2013 Presentation Wrap-Up (And a Preview to 2014)
So unless something comes up between now and the end of the year, I think I can call this year in professional development over. And I made improvements since last year: 1. Three formal presentations...
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