“It is exhausting being of the Old Faith — where you wanted to know the source of the material you were reading and perhaps how to critically evaluate it.” — Letter from Me …| Hedgehog Librarian
This is an incomplete thought that I bounced off of Andromeda and Kristin recently. It’s incomplete because (a) I don’t do this kind of instruction [deliberately] (b) I know the answer is no for a variety of reasons at least for now (c) my ability to write long form of late in the face of […]| Hedgehog Librarian
Like many academic institutions, my university has announced that we now have a contract with Microsoft Co-Pilot. Through our centralized webstore faculty and students can purchase individual licen…| Hedgehog Librarian
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a mid career faculty member who passed her full professor review and survived the NIH DMP rollout might look around and go, okay well, now what? Aca…| Hedgehog Librarian
I’ve been asked to write up what my concerns are with the Medical Library Association (MLA) speaker agreements. This has come to the forefront again because a colleague was invited to speak f…| Hedgehog Librarian
This post is a write up and expansion of a short presentation I recently gave at the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship Online Conference. I am grateful to the IRDL Online planning comm…| Hedgehog Librarian
It’s been a year since I first published the Executive Function Theft blog post. As of 9:30 p.m. on 8/13/24, I’m at 29,925 readers. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect when I pu…| Hedgehog Librarian
As I blogged last summer, I submitted my dossier for promotion to full professor. I’m pleased to announce that the Board of Trustees voted recently and my name was on the final list! As of No…| Hedgehog Librarian
What do we do with people who have made incredible art but who are horrible humans? My book group read Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer. The front half of the book is what I assume…| Hedgehog Librarian
Did you know I am not nearly ambitious enough and simultaneously, I am far too ambitious? I am failing because I have not followed a rapid path where I go from librarian to dean with the attendant …| Hedgehog Librarian
I’m going up for full professor. After getting tenure in 2017, things certainly haven’t slowed down. I just keep expanding the data management role at work, the entire DataDoubles proje…| Hedgehog Librarian
The phrase arrived in my head so completely formed and concrete that I couldn’t believe it wasn’t already established in the lexicon, but at least preliminary searches suggest it is not…| Hedgehog Librarian