Holly @Holly@scholar.social

Just applied for a CV job, and those always scare me a little. I have a lot of work experience, and very little research/presentation experience. Or really, a lot of presentation experience, but I forget what year I presented on how to use Pinterest to get yearbook design ideas at the state high school journalism convention, and I doubt that's what they are looking for.

2011. I'm working on readings for an ACRL Framework workshop.

I feel like I read about Second Life in scholarly articles, and no where else.

Mastodon never reminds me my 20 year high school reunion is coming up. Also I have no idea who half the women are because we all changed our names.

I have gone from citation mining to find articles to read to citation mining to avoid reading the articles I found. If I start printing things off, I can go outside and read, possibly near ducklings, but that would mean actually wading through all this and I'm not sure I'm ready for it.

I'm looking at student responses to our library assessment and wondering how many have access to living room furniture in their dorm rooms (all first year students in dorms here). A lot of love for our couches and chairs.

what are the flags?

I'm giving a 10 minute presentation to a faculty group on how #OER can be helpful and how I can help them find OER. Hence the uptick in talking to myself lately. I'm certain it will go fine, but I'm thinking I need to run through it again.

Anyone else have to close their office doors so they can talk to themselves?

The hidden crisis on college campuses: 36 percent of students don’t have enough to eat
https://wapo.st/2Ioco7x

I wish there was more info on retention and grades, but this is an issue my private liberal arts college is discussing - how to help students who don't have money for food or books.

There needs to be a horror series about a monster that follows people through Google Docs. "Whatever you do, ignore the comments by Anonymous Lemur" "But I turned comments off...wait...NOOOOO!"

WVIK is on a maritime kick this afternoon. I could switch to Iowa Public Radio, but I listened to them this morning, and I want to be fair. you know what, though? maritime all Monday isn't fair, either.

I'm looking for suggestions for internet radio stations. I've been doing local NPR classical, but I think I need to mix it up - anything that goes well with researching library policies?

Today's acronym is BEAM. I think I understand it, I even think I like it, but can I'm still figuring out how to make it useful to undergrads.

Back to my OER research - I'm wondering if a thoughtful conversation early about important resources, paid or not is helpful. We want to teach students that it's good to build a library of useful resources or subscribe to worthwhile periodicals. But I just told my kid she has to get books from the library until payday, so I understand being budget conscious.

Other adventures in info literacy: I found out that if you talk about Google Scholar and RefWorks on the same day, you have to explain to a bunch of sad first year students that RefWorks can't suck metadata from a PDF and they have to enter it in by hand. I would totally trade Google Scholar in for a chance to pet one of the barking service dogs.

My college has a program where students can volunteer to train service dogs, so the chances that there's a half trained golden retriever barking in the middle of an info literacy session are decent. They never bark more than a couple times, so it is pretty much the best.

#reading
For fun The Moon Palace by Weina Dai Randel (so far so soapy. I'm loving it. )

For work Just Enough Research by Erika Hall - and now I'm wanting to rope students into doing ux research so we can decide if we should get LibGuides.