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24 October 2008 ~ 0 Comments

News from LISJobs

I love LISJobs – it’s a great site to keep an eye on to see what’s going on in the library market and today Rachel Singer Gordon has a big announcement – a New LISJobs site!! For immediate release: October 24, 2008 Contact: Rachel Singer Gordon (rachel@lisjobs.com) LISjobs.com launches new website Villa Park, IL — [...]

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30 September 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Work for LibraryThing

This is a great way to find qualified candidates. Find us a Maine—or anyway within an hour of Portland, ME—employee and we’ll give you $1,000 in books. We did this once before. It’s how we found John, our Systems Adminitrator. (John found himself, so he got his own $1,000.) Jobs. We have three potential jobs [...]

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07 July 2008 ~ 2 Comments

What’s your work week?

I’m big on flexible work schedules and have always made that clear to my employers. That said, my request for flexibility is nothing compared to what Tammy Erickson suggests in her article entitled Do We Need Weekends? The idea of a defined work week makes great sense if you’re performing synchronous tasks – activities in [...]

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01 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

LinkedIn Group Search

Keeping my LinkedIn Profile up to date is very important to me. This is why it’s so annoying that I can’t seem to search for groups on LinkedIn that I belong to – what is taking them so long?? Today I found a Google Custom Search that lets you search LinkedIn Groups! There are thousands [...]

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21 February 2008 ~ 4 Comments

What’s it like to work from home

Beau Originally uploaded by nengard Everyone asks me how I’m handling working at home. Well – when you have this face next to you on the couch and a laptop on your lap – how could you not love working from home? [update] For those who are wondering – Coda is at my feet – [...]

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15 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Great First Job for Library Techies

Jenkins Law Library is looking for a Assistant Network Administrator / PC and Database Support Specialist. This position is responsible for assisting the Network Administrator, troubleshooting computers (PC desktops and servers) when needed and assisting with Website support. The primary focus is to support all users so they can work optimally in a networked environment. [...]

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04 February 2008 ~ 6 Comments

Welcome to LibLime

My new Macbook thanks me Originally uploaded by nengard This week I’m in Ohio to learn about my new job at LibLime. First on the agenda – learn how to use a Mac … yikes! So far, I’m pretty impressed, I keep hitting the wrong buttons and can’t figure out where the home and end [...]

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21 January 2008 ~ 10 Comments

We just want flexibility

In an article about the happiness of telecommuters versus those of us who have to go into the office, Techdirt makes a great point: Whether or not your desk sits in your house, at the office, or both, it is not the location of the desk that is important, but rather the flexibility to choose [...]

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10 January 2008 ~ 53 Comments

Moving On…

The news is out! I have been offered (and accepted) the position of Open Source Evangelist at LibLime. It seems like only yesterday I joined the staff at the Princeton Theological Seminary, but you never know when fate is going to step in. I’m going to miss working with the amazing people at the Seminary [...]

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06 December 2007 ~ 20 Comments

Multi-tasking

So – it turns out that I missed a few studies that have found that multi-tasking is actually counter-productive. I always thought that being able to do multple things at once lead to more productivity – but after I posted the link to Jarina’s article, I got some links sent to me about how multi-tasking [...]

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