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Mayo Clinic presentation recap

On June 21 I traveled to Rochester, Minnesota, with Augsburg College colleagues to talk about LibGuides with the Mayo Clinic librarians. They’d been intrigued after one of them saw the nursing guide I created for Augsburg.

Asides

• Quick shoutout! I recently started an internship with Public Radio International cataloging radio segments for the PRI / WNYC show, The Takeaway. I'll also be presenting at the Library Technology Conference 2010 at Macalester College in St. Paul next week with my Augsburg colleagues, discussing contracting for LibGuides. Forget how to make the dang things work -- how can cash-strapped libraries mired in hiring freezes get them done at all? #
• Thanks to the hounding encouragement of my colleagues at Augsburg (thanks, guys!), I'll be attending the Minnesota Library Association 2009 Conference in St. Cloud, MN, October 14-16. I recently became a member of the MLA -- it'll be great to meet some people and check the pulse of Minnesota libraries, including public ones (oo oo, there's a session on graphic novels -- my heart says yes but my head says heck yes). #
• I forget I can write asides with this blog... updates without the hassle of premeditated depth. In short: I've moved back to Minneapolis, MN, and am currently doing contract work with Augsburg College to create subject guides using the all-hailed LibGuides. The software isn't bad, but it definitely has its foibles and limitations, resulting in fist shakes and many "Guh!" exclamations. More on this, perhaps, later—given all the hype, I am definitely pleased to start playing around with them, not to mention grateful to have so quickly found library-related employment in this bled-dry job market, even if only short term. #
• I am biting the term paper bullet and running away to Seattle for four days for the ACRL Conference. Woo hoo! Get in touch if you'd like to meet up! #
• Thanks everyone for the feedback, mentioned here and through other streams. I've already made a few changes. A couple SLAISers (read: classmates) have asked me about my hosting and domain name. I use DreamHost, a most excellent provider (it is a United States server, but uh... c'mon, it's a new administration). Contact me if you have questions about setting up a site, figuring out your domain (registration, redirection) for an existing site, or if you'd be interested in carving off a piece of my pie in the sky series of tubes for super cheap. #