Community College Librarian » Opinion http://notmarian.org Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:51:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Success http://notmarian.org/2009/03/success/ http://notmarian.org/2009/03/success/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:06:43 +0000 Denise http://notmarian.org/?p=120 “Success is peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing that you made the effort to do the best of which you are capable.” I really like this. Mr. Wooden also makes a distinction between reputation and character that is such a healthy approach to way we think about ourselves. TED talks rock.

]]> http://notmarian.org/2009/03/success/feed/ 0 Twitter… http://notmarian.org/2009/03/twitter/ http://notmarian.org/2009/03/twitter/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:55:58 +0000 Denise http://notmarian.org/?p=99 Ok, I’m not completely getting it. It is great to twitter and read other people’s tweets at conferences but as Jenny Levine and others point out, these little batches of information about a specific event or topic are ephemeral. Well, I guess you could save these “threads” if you start using an entirely different tool to capture the tweetdata. I’m not sure how much that matters in the grand scheme of Twitterdom but if I understand the use of this tool at conferences and other meetings correctly, you can read the tweets about events that you are not able to attend. Well, that’s the only use of it that I can glean. That and getting other people’s impressions of the same event, meeting, session, presentation, etc. I tried Twittering a conference I attended but since I’m not so great at texting on my phone, I missed a lot of what the presenter said because my focus was elsewhere. I would not go as far as John Stewart has in this skit below. And I am going to give Twitter one more try at a conference I’m attending this weekend. I’m also speaking on a panel discussion on Saturday at 12:00 SLT. The hash mark for the conference is: #VWBPE

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]]> http://notmarian.org/2009/03/twitter/feed/ 0 Change http://notmarian.org/2009/02/change/ http://notmarian.org/2009/02/change/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:18:25 +0000 Denise http://notmarian.org/?p=80 I’ve been thinking a lot lately about change. The concept of it. The doing of it. How change happens.  How to cope when Change comes,  does its thing to your life and takes off again.

Change has occurred in copious amounts at my place of work during the last few weeks, some of it not so great.   My personal life had changed considerably. Of course I didn’t realize it until I woke up one day to a huge dose of Different.   Now, I could rail against these changes and be all upset and anxious.  I could be angry that my workplace is confused and depressing and that my life is a little more complicated than usual at the moment.  But, really, what good would that do? So, I’m thinking that since a change flurry is swirling all around me  I should totally capitalize on it and make a bunch of other changes too.  One of those changes is making something better/different out of  this yawn of a blog.  I never write in it anymore. Why? Because I was totally bored with not saying what was really on my mind  because people at work read it.   Not that I want to be all opinionated or tell secrets or bitch about work.   I just think I pigeon-holed myself with dedicating the blog to my profession.  When this blog comes back, the word librarian will not be in the title, but I might post about libraries because I really like them.

First step:  picking a pretty new theme.  Trying to browse wordpress’s themes selection is sort of like browsing Zappo’s so this is going to take awhile.

See you soon, my three readers and my mother.  Thank you for sticking around.

Oh..

We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
~W.H. Auden

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