Valibrarian

With the flood of information came the responsibility of each of us to critically evaluate our daily intake. We jump from post to tweet to text to tool to (maybe just maybe) printed word. For over twenty years one of my roles has been the aquisition of resources (sounds so stuffy and academic, huh? We [...]

A kindergartener entered my library today with a solemn expression and handed me this note along with an envelope full of exact change.

Revision passed away this morning, after a long battle with social media tools and instant gratification of verbiage. Survived by Writing Process siblings, Editing and Grammar, both now housed in assisted living facilities, Revision is remembered by readers and writers across the globe as having contributed to the accumulation of literature of all genres, the [...]

I am the child who is calling out, “Look!  The Emperor is wearing nothing at all!” Hush!  You cannot say such a thing. The emperor, in my analogy, is us.  Those of you scanning blogs, nings, social personal network sites, twitter, and a host of Web 2.0 user-generated content spaces (which I should name but [...]

Sharing with me: I learned about the power of participation from Mean Laura. Social media is only an effective tool when there is give and take. On twitter, she recently asked “In ONE word, what do you expect from 2012?”  I chose the word SHARE because I expect and hope to participate (both give and [...]