My partner expressed the purpose of our blog so well, that I have only one thing to add... and it's purely selfish. In addition to sharing our opinions about the mobile and web tools we use and learning from you via comments, having to write weekly about personal tech for busy librarians will inspire us to keep up-to-date on what's out there. And let's face it, there's no shortage of new technology to discover.
Whether it's communication, reference, travel, storage, or (dare I say it) productivity tools, we use them daily, we're always trying something new, and that's what we'll be talking about here - the good, the bad, and the ugly.
So, a little about me. I'm also an academic librarian at a very large public research university in a major metropolitan area. (If you haven't guessed, Drew and I work together.) My previous incarnations include industrial engineer, programmer, project manager, and business systems analyst at companies like GM, Corning, and Nortel Networks. I got incredibly tired of corporate America and when librarianship sang her siren song to me 8 years ago, I dove right in and never looked back. And that's me!
Monday, August 29, 2011
Welcome, and an introduction to one of the co-bloggers here (Drew)
You know how these things go. You're sitting around in the library's coffee shop, exchanging information with a colleague, and one of you says "You know, we should do a blog about this." By "this", we mean all those cool tools we've been using the past year or two, like mobile devices and apps and online services and all the related accessories that we keep stumbling upon.
Not only would we be helping our fellow professionals discover some new tech that might make their professional lives a tad easier (I'd say "more productive", but that verges on management-speak, and I don't want to run the risk of losing readers who are weary of hearing things like that), but also we (my colleague and I) would benefit by reading comments that might teach us a few things too.
In other words, welcome to our blog. Pick and choose among what we write, and please comment. We don't want a soapbox. Honest. (But we reserve the right to the occasional vent.)
Oh, I'm an academic librarian at a very large public research university in a major metropolitan area. In previous lifetimes, I was a member of academic computing organizations at another university and at this university, and in between those times and my current job, I taught full-time for more than 12 years in a library school at this university.
I love librarianship. I love technology. I love mixing them up and seeing what happens. That's me.
Not only would we be helping our fellow professionals discover some new tech that might make their professional lives a tad easier (I'd say "more productive", but that verges on management-speak, and I don't want to run the risk of losing readers who are weary of hearing things like that), but also we (my colleague and I) would benefit by reading comments that might teach us a few things too.
In other words, welcome to our blog. Pick and choose among what we write, and please comment. We don't want a soapbox. Honest. (But we reserve the right to the occasional vent.)
Oh, I'm an academic librarian at a very large public research university in a major metropolitan area. In previous lifetimes, I was a member of academic computing organizations at another university and at this university, and in between those times and my current job, I taught full-time for more than 12 years in a library school at this university.
I love librarianship. I love technology. I love mixing them up and seeing what happens. That's me.
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