Author: Laurie

We had planned on May 27 for an all-day strategic planning retreat for the Library Technology Services Department, at a lovely venue, with lunch, and great time for connecting as whole workers. Now, we’re holding July 14 as the date, and looking at how to do this in a meaningful manner using zoom for in-person… Continue reading Planning for Strategic Planning Meetings

In January, I became the Senior Director for Library Technology & Digital Strategies, which means I now also lead Library Technology Services, in addition to chairing the Digital Partnerships & Strategies Department. I am thrilled to be in this role, to best support current needs and possible futures, including for how we leverage and build-upon… Continue reading Collaborative and Compassionate Computing / Proactive, Prepared, and People-Centered

The Libraries at UF closed yesterday at 6pm. It is unclear when we will re-open. The full announcement is here: https://cms.uflib.ufl.edu/news/index.aspx#20200312 We are working remotely, and this is a fast (and for some folks is a first) time to work fully remote.  In Library Technology, we’re discussing our work as compassionate computing: we are working… Continue reading Compassionate Computing

The Libraries at UF are currently open, but no one knows what’s coming, and folks who are approved are working remotely, and everyone is preparing to move to work remotely if needed. I know loads of folks are doing the same, or have already moved fully remote-online. Like others, we have many help guides, new… Continue reading Working Remotely

I’m now the Senior Director for Library Technology & Digital Strategies at UF. We’ve been doing awesome work, and are looking to do even more incredible work, to move to better ways or working, and to ensure greater impact from our work. To enable all of this, we’re holding a series of conversations with folks… Continue reading Library Technology: Concerns, Goals, and Dreams

Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1994. 47: “Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.” 202: “To give an object poetic space is to give it more space than it has objectivity; or, better still, it is following the expansion of its intimate space.” Stilgoe, John R. “Introduction to the 1994 Edition.” Bachelard,… Continue reading The Poetics of Space, a couple of quotes

Thanks, as always, to Philip Guo, for sharing great thoughts on his site! From November 2019, his piece “Computer Literacy Starts with Developing a Mental Model of Filesystems” covers the critical need for folks to have building blocks for computer literacy, noting: computer literacy starts with developing a working mental model of computer filesystems. This includes concepts such as:… Continue reading Computer Literacy, Procedural Literacy, Critical Parts

I’m supporting an internal training by awesom Bess de Farber, sharing on grant partnerships. She’s talking about asset-based community development, and stated: “if you don’t know what you have, you don’t know what you can do.” This is exactly what we do in digital libraries, and we describe this in many ways. For ways of… Continue reading Asset-based Community Development, NASA, Working Girl

We’ve passed through so many major changes in the digital age. Librarians led the way in the internet revolution, teaching people how to use a mouse, what a web browser was and how to use it, and so much more for internet and information literacy. With the National Digital Library granting program in the US… Continue reading New Golden Age for Digital Libraries?

I learned that a friend of mine is from the “Pole of Inaccessibility” for the US, and thus also learned what a pole of inaccessibility is: with respect to a geographical criterion of inaccessibility marks a location that is the most challenging to reach according to that criterion. Often it refers to the most distant point… Continue reading Pole of Inaccessibility