I’m teaching two online continuing education classes for Simmons College’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Coming up in November, I’m co-teaching “They’re Googling You: Online Identity for LIS Professionals” with my friend Beth Gallaway. We’ll talk about social networking tools, privacy, self-promotion and blogging tools to help get your name out and represent yourself online in the best possible way, and over the course of the month-long class you’ll set up your own personal website.

In March 2011, I’m teaching (solo) “Zotero: Using and Supporting the Research Power Tool,” which will include the basics of how to use Zotero, its sync and group features, and supporting and teaching Zotero in a library environment. The final project will be creating a practical application for Zotero in your library. Course readings will include pre-publication chapters of my upcoming Zotero book for ACRL Publications.

Register for either one on the Simmons site. I’ll mention them again as the dates get closer.

New episode of ALI went up today! Anna fans will rejoice to hear her back on the show after maternity leave from her podcasting duties.

We had a loose theme of collaboration this episode: teaching partnerships, campus initiatives and institutional outreach. Hence: Episode 17: Collaborama!

Earlier this week I gave an online presentation about LibGuides for the GALILEO initiative here in Georgia. Once again they were good enough to archive it. It’s partly how-to/demo and partly suggested best practices and examples.

Leave the password blank, just click Enter. Pop-up blockers may need to be disabled.

LibGuides presentation for GALILEO, August 4 2010

"1947 Continental" by Olivander

I’m really pleased and excited to announce that I’m writing a book about Zotero for ACRL Publications. (This is one reason I’ve been all “Zotero Zotero Zotero” on the blog lately. …More than usual, I mean.)

The working title is Zotero: A guide for librarians, teachers and researchers. It will be part how-to guide for Zotero users and partly about supporting, promoting and teaching Zotero.

For my research, I’m really interested in hearing from:

• librarians and educators who are incorporating Zotero into teaching, from high school through grad classes
• campus Zotero advocates who are engaging in interesting promotional and outreach activities
• Zotero users who are using it in interesting or unusual ways

If you’re doing any of those things please email me or leave a comment! I’m writing through the beginning of 2011 and I’m expecting it to go to print in the spring. I’m sure I’ll be posting about it here as it progresses.

A big thank you to Kathryn Deiss at ACRL Publications for working with me on this!

New ALI episode! We did something a little different at the suggestion of our guest Stephen Francoeur and discussed an article about instructional strategies for IM reference services by Megan Oakleaf and Amy Van Scoy (no relation to our Anna Van Scoyoc).

This morning I attended two terrific webinars sponsored by the Georgia Library Association and Georgia Public Libraries: The Social Library by Cliff Landis, and Library on the Radio by Charlie Bennett and Ameet Doshi. If you weren’t in the chat room with us, check out the archive.

Both presentations are really worth seeing. Cliff did an amazingly concise job of presenting his take on social media for library outreach, and Charlie and Ameet talked about the genesis of their library radio show “Lost in the Stacks” (on which I made a guest appearance earlier this summer). Cliff is the first hour of the archived presentation and Charlie and Ameet start at 1 hour 15 minutes.

I gave an online Zotero talk for GALILEO last week. Here’s the audio and video archive. It’s part software how-to and partly a discussion of how I teach and support Zotero in our library. EDIT: No password needed — just leave it blank and click Enter.

I’m doing another one for them in November (and one on Libguides in early August), and I hope to be a little less awkward with the Wimba presentation software at that point!

New ALI episode! Rachel and I talked to Chad Mairn from St. Petersburg College about a whole lot of instructional technology stuff.

Since I’m seemingly on a roll with the Youtube posts, let me share this great quick-and-awesome Zotero demo from Eric Sizemore:

This is more or less how I start my Zotero workshops — I’ve found that it pays to show the finished product at the beginning to get their attention — but I think Eric does a better job than I do!

The Library Society of the World’s own Abigail Goben produced this video of LSW members singing Jonathan Coulton‘s Code Monkey. It features me on plastic Rock Band guitar. Enjoy.