Author: Laurie

Each summer, I do a strategic planning session with the two departments in my division, Digital Partnerships & Strategies and Library Technology Services. For this coming year, we plan to focus our discussions on two areas: Digital Partnerships & Strategies: work/life: establishing and communicating norms/boundaries/expectations Library Technology Services: remote/hybrid work (continual improvement for best practices)… Continue reading Skip-Level Meetings and Table Setting: prep for strategic planning, work/life boundaries, and future of hybrid/remote work

Thanks to Ed Summers for sharing his presentation for iPres2020! In it, he covers many things, including significant properties in relation to designated communities, preservation through desiccation, and the Principle of Least Power (Rule of Least Power) in relation to minimal computing. For folks working with technologies that need to be sustained, and so need… Continue reading Appropriate technology, rule of least power, and minimal computing

Wikipedia explains etiquette as: “the set of conventional rules of personal behaviour in polite society, usually in the form of an ethical code that delineates the expected and accepted social behaviors that accord with the conventions and norms observed by a society, a social class, or a social group.” In the workplace, we have many ideas of what constitutes good etiquette,… Continue reading Etiquette for Virtual Meetings: Documenting Otherwise Unwritten Rules (Rights, Responsibilities, and Community Expectations)

One of the many good articles I’ve read recently is “Why I’m Teaching My Kids That Computers Are Dumb Machines” by Greg Lavallee. The article covers the experience of the author, who is the director of technology for Slate, in supporting teaching/learning from home for two kids. The article details problems with online learning, ranging… Continue reading Compassionate Computing: Trying to Protect Users from Tech Bullshit

I grew up in Jacksonvile, Florida (Duval County). As a kid, I remember being taught a lot of things that didn’t make sense for why they were being taught and questionable accuracy. While some could be attributed to a Jacksonville pride on why JAX is special, for others, I don’t know and would have to… Continue reading Other Technical Errors, and Lots of Rivers Run North

In my work (academia, libraries), I think most folks most often use “stakeholder” as a general term in collaborations and partnerships, following the definition for “one who is involved in or affected by a course of action” (Merriam‐Webster). In our academic library community, some folks use “customer” to describe our internal interactions, which is a… Continue reading Using the word Stakeholder in partnerships and other collaborations

Quotes that inform on starting the process in terms of the challenge and the work required to enable successful communication, from BDD in Action: Behavior-Driven Development for the Whole Software Lifecycle, by John Ferguson Smart (Shelter Island, NY: Manning, 2015): Page 10: “Users and stakeholders will usually know what high-level goals they want to achieve… Continue reading Developing Capacity for Behavior-Driven Development

I love talking to colleagues about how we share information to support each other and our communities more broadly! In a meeting today, discussing collective work in regards to sharing grant proposals, and Perry Collin’s awesome writing on this is again part of the conversation! It’s wonderful when people share grant proposals, and wonderful when… Continue reading Fostering Transparency in Grant Writing

UF’s Library Technology Services is undertaking strategic planning sessions. We’ve completed one of four sessions, each as 1.5 hours in zoom meetings with full group and breakout sessions, with this transformed from the planned all-day, in-person session).  The first session was a grounding (established shared values, language, and orientation). The second will build project planning… Continue reading Library Technology Services, first draft of shared values for our work

Below is a handout (or digital file) for our departmental strategic planning session for this year year. Digital Partnerships & Strategies, Readings for Strategic Planning Meetings in 2020 From 2019 readings: Grounded Theory Grounded Theory: research method where the theory and findings are developed from the data; does not start with a hypothesis that is… Continue reading Digital Partnerships & Strategies Department, Strategic Planning, Handout