Here's the latest draft of my resumé (as a Word document--I'll get an HTML/CSS version up later). Comments and suggestions are welcome (as are interview requests and job offers!). These are the things I'm nervous about:

• Layout. I've always done a two column resumé--headings in a narrow left column, bullet points in a wide right column. I understand that this flush-left format is better for on-line submissions. But does it look okay? Should I do two different layouts, one for print, one for on-line submission?


• Format. Contemporary wisdom in resumé-writing is to put accomplishments first. I've also been told by several people that I need a two-page resume (no one says this, but the implication is that I'm too old to fit everything relevant on one page). Combining these two bits of advice, I end up with the traditonal resumé categories of experience and education on the second page. Is that okay?


• Grammar and Spelling. So far, this has only been proofread by me and MS Word. Any volunteers?


• Blue lines. Should I get rid of some or all of the URLs on the first page? Are they too distracting?

If you can help me with any of these questions, send email to joy at moll projects dot com or leave a comment on my other blog. Thanks!     #    (0) comments

2005-06-18

Managing audio content

Podcasts aren't growing on me. My attitude would likely be different if I actually owned an i-pod, or even if I spent less time on dial-up and more time on cable modem. But it's just not working for me to have a bunch of podcasts in Bloglines. I'll listen to Greg's when I have a spare moment at the house, but I've been ignoring the rest for weeks.

So, new solution. I'm taking my links to audio feeds, except for Greg's, out of Bloglines. Instead, I'll link to the relevant websites in my del.icio.us account with the tag radio. Then when I'm in the mood for a create-my-own radio show, I'll know where to look.

Speaking of making my own radio show, this exercise has netted some delightful listening hours in recent months:

1. go to NPR


2. type "librarian" or "library" or "libraries" in the search box


3. listen to whatever looks interesting

To get started, try this one with Nancy Pearl.     #    (0) comments

2005-06-17

Learn about Census

Is anyone going to the Missouri Census Data Center training conference? It's one day in Columbia on July 25. I signed up for two workshops--Accessing Data on the Web and Introduction to GIS. The price is right--$35 and it includes lunch!     #    (0) comments

2005-06-16

Government information report

My summary of the ACRL panel session, "Rethinking government information: Providing access and managing documents collection in the 21st century," is up on the C&RL News website. It's the last article on the page.     #    (0) comments

2005-06-13

Private social software

I learned about ConnectViaBooks from Lorcan Dempsey's weblog. But I don't get it.

You can't look at anything until you have gone through the four-step process (plus email confirmation) to register. Even then, all you can get is a list of people who have read one or more of the books on your booklist. But all conversations are private, so there is no way to see what, if anything, they have written about those books. It doesn't feel very social to me--more like a big black box.

Am I missing something?     #    (0) comments

2005-06-05

Why I'm not posting

I didn't post much last week because I've been attending to family matters, taking walks, playing catch, stretching in the hot tub, observing a butterfly, putting together my latest implementation of the Getting Things Done system, and (oddly enough) getting a few things done.

I won't be posting, here, next week because I'm going to a Chautauqua. I will be blogging the Chautauqua on my other blog. As far as I can tell, this will be the first time that a Chautauqua has been blogged. Grab the feed and witness history.     #    (0) comments

2005-06-04

The Island of Lost Maps

I wish I had read this book, by Miles Harvey, last year at this time--just before taking the Map Librarianship class. It would have added another dimension to the most unusual class I took in this program. The Island of Lost Maps is about the famous theft of maps from many libraries in the mid-1990s. It's also about the history of maps, the making of maps, the collecting of maps, and the explorations that inspired the maps. I devoured this fascinating story more like a novel than like a non-fiction account by a journalist.     #    (0) comments

Asking why

There's a great essay today on walking paper called letting go. It echoes some other things I've read recently in the library blogosphere about being more user-centered, but Aaron Schmidt managed to say it in a way that spoke well to me.

When I'm a new librarian, I want to have the courage to ask why, in the persistent and annoying manner of a four year old.

Why can't students load programs on the computers?
Because we need control over the computers.

Why do we need control over the computers?
Because they could get messed up.

Why couldn't they be easy to fix if they get messed up?
Because we don't want to fix them.

Why don't we want to fix them?
Because that's IT's job.

Why?     #    (0) comments

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