Teaching Smart People How to Learn

by Chris Argyris

The Leader’s New Work: Building Learning Organizations

by Peter M. Senge

Getting Them Through The Wilderness: A Leaders Guide to Transition

by William Bridges, Ph.D.

Some stuff I’m listening to - it’s my blog - i do what i want.

I work at a library that, although at a big university, operates very small. We’re very student focused which means technical services work is often not given the primary focus (not a critique - although others have made very compelling arguments as to why such a dicotomy might be worthy of a critique). I came into my position as my first library job and my predessesor talked about how isolated she was during the month and a half that we had to work together. Now that I’ve been doing this job for two years, I’m feeling that isolation. I’m realizing that I need to find new communities of practice to learn with. This is tough. I don’t feel like it is supported well by our organizations. ALCTS feels really high level and there is this assumption that we all know what we’re doing. I’m here to admit that I am not sure I know what I’m doing. Are you (if so - can we talk?)?

Hold the phone… then give that phone to me.

Parsing XML is something I haven’t had to do a lot of. I scrape web pages in HTML and usually extract the text I need. However, I know I’m going to need to get better at parsing XML.

Hardesty, Juliet L. “Transitioning from XML to RDF: considerations for an effective move towards linked data and the semantic web.” Information Technology and Libraries Mar. 2016: 51+. Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 2 Sept. 2016.

This is the first post on this page. I’m planning on using this blog to read things about metadata and share my notes on those documents. It might be painfully honest about what I know and what I don’t. I want to be an expert on metadata in libraries but I’m not. Not yet!