New Jack Librarian

It has finally come to pass that that I need to shutter New Jack Librarian as I've been having a terrible time composing long posts using Blogger. Besides, the platform's days are likely numbered...

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Normally I post my talks here but last night I struggled so much with Blogger that I decided to post today's presentation The City As Classroom vs. The City As Advertising Platform that I gave at...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2016/05/the-city-as-classroom-vs-city-as_2.html

The Library Starter Deck from FutureCoast on Vimeo . Last week, Ken Eklund and myself submitted our proposal for the 2016 Knight News Challenge which asks,  How might libraries serve 21st...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2016/03/knight-news-challenge-library-starter.html

Just a short note letting the world know that my talk at last year's Access 2015 conference has been formally written up as a contribution to the latest issue of Partnership: The Canadian Journal...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2016/03/new-article-in-partnership.html

G H O S T    S T O R Y    1 It’s funny that I ended up as a librarian because my earliest memories of libraries were not entirely positive. While the children’s section of the cen...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2016/03/g-h-o-s-t-s-t-o-r-i-e-s.html

This is an *evergreen* tweet of mine: > A gentle reminder: http://t.co/2yC34HE0cU  > is a privately owned company funded by venture capital groups that > will expect profit f...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2015/11/why-i-think-faculty-and-librarians.html

If you follow conversations about Scholarly Communication (as I do), it is not uncommon to run into the frustrations of librarians and scholars who cannot understand why their peers continue to p...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2015/11/what-weve-got-here-is-failure-to.html

On Wednesday morning, I had the pleasure to the give the opening keynote to the Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference . My name is Mita Williams and for the last 16 years or s...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2015/11/the-city-as-classroom.html

On Tuesday, I had the pleasure to speak to the good people of ILEAD USA . The words below are the notes that I brought to the stage with me. If you want to hear what I actually said during my tal...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2015/10/libraries-are-for-use-and-by-use-i-mean.html

  On Thursday, September 10th, I had the honor and the pleasure to present at Access 2015 . I've been to many Access Conferences over the years and each one has been a joyful experience. Tha...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2015/09/library-of-cards.html

Previously, whenever I have spoken or written about user experience and the web , I have recommended only one book: Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug. Whenever I did so, I did so with a ca...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2015/04/advice-from-badass-how-to-make-users.html

In my last post , I described my current computer set up. I did so to encourage a mindfulness in my own practice (I am not ashamed of writing the previous sentence - I really do mean it). Forcing...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2015/04/the-update-to-setup.html

For this post, I’m going to pretend that the editors of the blog, The Setup (“a collection of nerdy interviews asking people from all walks of life what they use to get the job done”) aske...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2015/03/the-setup.html

On Friday the 13th, I gave the morning keynote at the Online Northwest Conference in Corvallis, OR. Thanks so much to the organization for inviting me. Last October, I was driving home fro...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2015/02/teach-for-america-code-for-america.html

Hmmm, I thought blogger.com kindly published my last post but did not update the RSS feed, so I made this re-post: > On February 1st, I gave a presentation the American Library > Asso...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2015/02/be-future-compatiable.html

. Thank you, good people of ALA.] Today’s session is going to start out as a field guide but it’s going to end with a history lesson. We’re going to start here - with a space stat...

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On December 3rd, I gave a keynote for Scholars Portal Day .  The slide deck was made using BIG and is available online .  Thank you to Scholars Portal for inviting me to be with one of my favo...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2014/12/from-diy-to-working-together-using.html

The Knight News Challenge has been issued and it's about libraries: HOW MIGHT WE LEVERAGE LIBRARIES AS A PLATFORM TO BUILD MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE COMMUNITIES?  I'm reviewing these entries because...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2014/10/the-knight-foundation-news-challenge.html

In the middle of her column that is ostensibly about the television series Red Band Society, New Yorker critic Emily Nausbaum summarized John Green's YA bestseller The Fault in Our Stars with in...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2014/09/the-story-of-our-future-this-changes.html

On Sunday I was part of the ALA Annual Conference's Top Tech Trends Panel , which I shared with good company: Nadaleen F. Tempelman-Kluit : moderator Jason Griffey : Open hardware  Ranti Jun...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2014/07/my-top-tech-trend-one-click-server.html

This is the text and slides from my keynote address at the 2014 Library Technology Conference on March 19, 2014. Thank you very much for the organizers for inviting me. I would like to be...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2014/03/the-origin-of-future-is-in-present_19.html

It is the month of Janus when we take one last long look behind at the year that was and then after this reflection, we turn away from the past, look straight ahead and step forward into the unkn...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2014/01/why-librarianship-is-difficult-and.html

There has only been one department in the 375+ year history of Harvard that has ever been dismantled and that was the Geography Department.  Since then many other Geography Departments have bee...

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You probably don’t know that I hold the illustrious position of President of the King Edward Home and School Association . Since September I've been chairing our monthly meetings as well a...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2013/11/home-and-school-and-library-and-city.html

This post includes the slides and some of things I said during a brief presentation I made to the LIS 9706 User Experience Research class at FIMS, Western University on August 8, 2013. Thank you ...

http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2013/08/user-experience-vs-world.html