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STEAMers Think Tank, Rochester Hills Public Library
Thanks to the Rochester Hills (MI) Public Library for hosting today’s STEAMers Think Tank Unconference Missed dose : Take this drug when needed but viagra 100 mg not more than one tablet a day. Intake of herbal male enhancement supplements … Continue reading
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New article: Leadership: Beyond the Memes, with Susan D. Ballard
This month’s School Library Connection features an essay on leadership, “Leadership: Beyond the Memes,” that I co-authored with Susan D. Ballard. Here’s an excerpt: Stakeholders [S]peak the language of stakeholders. So many of us leave library school fired up to talk about … Continue reading
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Presentation at Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s Beyond the Numbers Conference
Hello! It’s been a while! Team member Wendy Stephens and I are presenting about our project at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s Beyond the Numbers Conference, an economic data conference for librarians, today. Polyps: Benign growths in the … Continue reading
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North Texas Expo – Design Thinking
I’m happy to be back in Texas today for the North Texas Library Expo to talk about design thinking in our libraries both in our makerspaces and as a way of attuning ourselves to our building and designing responsive instruction, … Continue reading
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Makerspaces presentation for Liz Kolb’s Teaching and Learning with Technology Class
Thanks to Liz Kolb for inviting me to speak to her Teaching and Learning with Technology course to talk about the maker movement. It’s always great to have an excuse to hang around with her. You can find slides from … Continue reading
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Our friends at Niles District Library featured in their local newspaper!
{Reposted from the Making in Michigan Libraries blog} We were excited to see a flurry of local interest in the Niles District Library’s Skillshare space and Library of Things. Check out the summary below or enjoy the full article here! … Continue reading
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Our friends at the Benzonia Public Library featured in SLJ in May!
{Reposted from the Making in Michigan Libraries blog} In getting organized for the new school year, I realized that we had never blogged about our friends Finn McLaren and his mom, Benzonia’s director Amanda McLaren, being featured in School Library … Continue reading
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Making in Nursing Homes
We loaned some MML equipment we wouldn’t be using this summer to Kayla Carucci, a doctoral student at U-M School of Information. Check out what she’s doing with it! From the article on My Central Jersey: You might think that … Continue reading
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FRED Resources Highlighted in Today’s New York Times
Economics reporter Neil Irwin wrote about his technology-related workflow in today’s New York Times. In, “Why ‘Fred’ Is the Best Friend of Economics Writers,” he says: Economics is a topic full of data. What tools do you use to parse that … Continue reading
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REALISD presentation to Buffalo Cohort
Howdy to my Midwestern colleagues over at the REALISD cohort in Buffalo this week! You can find today’s Even if men appetite it, they’re not accessible for it the old age people. price sildenafil With today’s computer-controlled cialis pills wholesale … Continue reading
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