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Meet Meg, our new coworking librarian

jessamyn — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:14:02 +0000

Last month, Meg approached us with a brilliant idea: could she try to create a coworking librarian position at CoCo?

There was only one possible answer: “How soon can you start?”

You may know Meg as DotMeg or even as Meg Canada. She’s got a new mini-gig which she’s blogging about thanks, in part, to the support (though not financial) of her employer Hennepin County Library. Read more about her in her Mover and Shaker profile. Also check out this beautiful space (the St. Paul location is just as lovely but not as classic). [thanks joe!]

Give someone else a chance to move and shake….

jessamyn — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:42:44 +0000

Library Journal Mover and Shaker nominations are open until this Friday. I have to say that being in the first group of Movers and Shakers back in 2002 gave me a sort of boost of recognition in an otherwise large and sometimes overhwlming seeming profession. I try to nominate someone every year if I can and I’m set for this year. Have you nominated anyone? Go do it!

Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers

jessamyn — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:26:08 +0000

Library Journal has once again made the Movers and Shakers list look nice but not be super useful in the online world. I like seeing everyone’s photos. I’d prefer to get a copy/pasteable list of names. Here’s everyone [taken from the total list and grepped to only include this year's winners] and links to their LJ profile. If someone would like to add personal site URLs to this, please feel free to copy/paste/repurpose. Whoops, looks like Bobbi Newman had already done it, yay!

Maureen Ambrosino
Kenning Arlitsch
Barry Bailey
Brian Bannon
Rebecca M. Blakeley
Erik Boekesteijn
Chad Boeninger
Jill Bourne
J. Drusilla Carter
Natalie Caruso
Susan Conlon
Karen Coombs
Kim Duckett
Carlene Engstrom
Ann Dutton Ewbank
Lia Friedman
Dean Giustini
Toby Greenwalt
Jason Griffey
Carey Gross
Lisa Harris
William Harmer
Sarah Houghton-Jan
Ingrid Kalchthaler
Nancy J. Keane
Karen Kleckner Keefe
Casey Long
Laverne Mann
Daniel Marcou
Jamie Markus
Matt L. Moran
Joe Murphy
Rebecca Near
Kristi L. Palmer
Dave Pattern
Ken Pienkos
Michael Porter
Lauren Pressley
Lori Reed
Melissa L. Rethlefsen
Jenica P. Rogers-Urbanek
Lisa G. Rosenblum
Dorothea Salo
Allison Santos
Julie Scordato
Pam Sessoms
Koren Stembridge
Jaap Van De Geer
Geert Van Den Boogaard
Rachel Walden
Carlie Webber

Library Journal’s Star Libraries – show me the data

jessamyn — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:31:50 +0000

Library Journal has been making an effort to open up more, make more types of content available. I’ve been enjoying following Josh Hadro on Twitter. This was particularly useful when their Star Libraries report came out. Vermont has five libraries on the list [yay!] and I was trying to figure out how this compared to other states, by population and/or by sheer numbers. Josh went back and forth with me a few times pointing to other ways the data was displayed to see if any were helpful. What I was looking for was a list — similar to the Movers and Shakers list we were always agitating for — but I got close. The data is available, among other ways

In a graphic showing libraries by state with split-out charts at the bottom sorted by expenditure category.
As a Google spreadsheet with a separate page for each expenditire category
Listed by score within each expenditure category (note sexy sortable lists)

It’s hard to tell how all these pages are related to each other — this page is the best start page I found — and each page lets you comment which is also a little on the confusing side. I asked about where to find everything on one page and I guess you can’t do it. Library Journal staffers are hampered by a CMS that doesn’t really allow them to make decent links between things and whether it’s software or “wetware” the link they offered in a comment wasn’t even one I could click. So, yay hooray for the winning libraries and a “let’s do better next time” nudge for decent information design for this report next year.

know any Movers & Shakers?

jessamyn — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:50:18 +0000

Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers nominations are open from now until November 10th. Here’s the list of people who have already been honored. Does anyone remember if someone made a hyperlinked list of these names? I seem to recall one but am having trouble finding it.
update: Thanks Amy, it’s Connie Crosby who made the excellent hyperlinked Movers & Shakers list.

Congrats to Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers

jessamyn — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:23:21 +0000

Library Journal has put the list of Movers and Shakers online. Well, they have a list of their cutesy taglines, you have to click through to get the names. The page where they list all the Movers & Shakers by state has the names of every Mover and Shaker, though they’re not hyperlinked. Maybe we need to wikify this? I have included the list here. ~~Can you guess any of the names?~~ Life is too short, I copied the names over as well. update: Librarian by Day has gone a step further and linked to their blogs too, if available. Congrats to all of you.

Grace Under Pressure (Maria Redburn)
The Man Who Said No to Dewey (Marshall Shore)
In Context (Hilary Davis)
Films ‘R’ Us (Jim Cheng)
Giving Back (Darci Hanning)
Thrill Seeker (Allyson Mower)
User-Centered Technologist (David Lee King)
Deep Impact (Christopher Harris)
Expanding OPACs (Steven Bowers)
Multitalented (Evette Atkin)
Pathfinder (Elisabeth Jacobsen Marrapodi)
Collaborative Experimentation (Char Booth)
Geek Librarian (Michelle Boulé)
Metadata Man (Tim Spalding)
Never Satisfied (Caleb Tucker-Raymond)
Dynamo (Nancy Teger)
Reader’s Best Friend (Jessica Moyer)
Push Technology (Marcia Mardis)
Direct Effects (David Rothman)
Restoring History (Mark Greek)
The Translator (Lisa Sweeney)
Show Me the Evidence (Mark Vrabel)
Anger into Fuel (Mario Ascencio)
Global Thinker (Robin Kear)
Life Work (Annabelle V. Núñez)
On the Line (Alex Youngberg)
Open Source Evangelist (Josh Ferraro)
Leveling the Field (Jennifer Nelson)
On a Mission (Daniel Cornwall)
Passion for Diversity (Padma Polepeddi)
Rural Improvement (Amanda McKeraghan)
Community Ambassador (Mary Ellen Stasek)
On the Same Page (Jennifer Schember)
Do Something! (Amy Buckland)
Data Tracker (Kim Ricker)
A Blended Passion (Alexia Hudson)
Razzle Dazzler (Tony Tallent)
Creating Customers (Penny Sympson)
Action Figure (Stephanie Squicciarini)
Not Clowning Around (Devona Carpenter )
Better Than Cool (Karen Brooks-Reese )
Working the Crossroads (Alison Cody)
Storyteller (Lucía González )
Spark Plug (Jamie Watson)
Transformer (Peter Bromberg)
Team Effort (Sarah Erwin & Candice Gwin)
Paying It Forward (Sol Gómez)
On Time, on Budget ( Kim Fuller)
Cowgirl (Lisa Wells)

PSA: It’s Mover & Shaker Time Again

jessamyn — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:07:52 +0000

From my email to your eyes. Please nominate your favorite awesomest librarians.

The editors of Library Journal need your help in identifying the emerging leaders in the library world. The sixth annual Movers & Shakers supplement will profile 50-plus up-and-coming individuals from across the United States and Canada who are innovative, creative, and making a difference. From librarians to vendors to others who work in the library field, Movers & Shakers 2007 will celebrate the new professionals who are moving our libraries ahead. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2006.

You can use the online form here [warning: print out a copy before you submit, in case your submission fails and everything you wrote vanishes]. Or, if you prefer, print out the PDF and return it to Ann Kim at LJ, 360 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010, or fax to 646-746-6734.

update: not sure if your favorite librarian has been a Mover and Shaker before? Check out Marylaine’s handy (and alphebatized) list of past honorees. Thanks so much for putting this together Marylaine!

Movers, Shakers, Candlestick Makers (also bloggers)

jessamyn — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:56:12 +0000

Another round of Movers and Shakers with more than a few familiar faces and some people I’ve now said “Oh man, I have to meet that person.” Congratulations to Vermonter Trina Magi and new settler Meredith Farkas, JohnBloggers Blyberg (on the “to meet” list) and Hubbard (who I had lunch with once back in 2001 and should do so again) and popblogger Sophi Brookover along with PLA blogger Beth Gallaway. Also selected were Jill Stover from the Library Marketing blog, Matt Gullett (updated link) who writes for the Library Journal Tech blog among a zillion other places, Alycia Sellie Madison ZineFest cofounder, and Sarah Johnson from Beyond the Job. Nice job everyone!

It’s Mover and Shaker Time Again

jessamyn — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:45:52 +0000

Do you know someone who would look great gracing the pages of Library Journal for all the good library work they’ve been doing this year? Do they rock? Are you in awe of their librarian superpowers? If so, nominations are open for Movers & Shakers 2006. If you need to refresh your memory of who has already been selected, here are the winners for 2002 [there's me!], 2003, 2004, 2005. Push the envelope and ask Library Journal if maybe we can submit nominations electronically this time. [thanks marylaine]

Movers! Shakers! Bloggers! Others!

jessamyn — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:50:10 +0000

It’s really great to see the Library Journal Movers and Shakers awards include so many colleagues not just from the blogging world — Aaron and Michael — but other parts of the library world I interact with when I step away from the keyboard, like Veronda Pitchford from Chicago and Kim Charlson from Perkins School for the Blind, a place I rememebr visiting when I was a little girl.