One of the cool things waiting for me when I got back was my copy of Priscilla Schontz’s Librarian’s Career Guidebook which I wrote a chapter on freelancing for, ironically, right before taking my current job.
Author: jessamyn
also, on the job front
I found out recently that I did not get a reference job I applied for. This is always tough news because I never know what exactly I could do better the next time around. I have ideas, but no firm feelings of “Oh I know exactly why I didn’t get this job.” Since my current contract/grant job ends in May sometime, I have been looking around a bit at options, though not super-seriously yet. This little offer came my way while I was at the conference. It’s still a very up in the air thing, but it’s nice to be wanted, don’t you think?
a different kind of book
Sorry Books are a project started by the Australians for Native Title as way for ordinary Australians to express their remorse for what happened to the Stolen Generations.
steal my stylesheet
The stylesheet that I used for my recent talk and all the other talks I’ve given over the past few years is available for use by anyone else under a Creative Commons license. Amanda used it, with some modification, for a nifty talk on Weblogs in the Classroom. The advantage to doing your talk in HTML is that it can be immediately made available on — or even given from — the web with hyperlinks [as we see more and more people at conferences with laptops, isn’t this useful?], it can be standards compliant, it’s available to anyone with a browser, and a quick tweak of the stylesheet gives you the talk in notes format for printing. I also like to think that it’s easier to use and easier on the eyes than Powerpoint, but that may just be snobbery on my part. In any case, please avail yourself of it if you think it would be useful to you.
hi – 08dec
Hi. Some pictures of my trip — including a few of the local libraries — are online if you want to take a look. No real updates until I get back stateside this weekend.