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What running did for my resolutions

Anyone would ask me what my New Year’s resolutions was over the last few years would receive a very noncommittal and sarcastic response. It wasn’t my thing to think up grand visions of the person I thought I should be.

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Professional Ties: Editing and Librarianship

At the Iowa Library Association conference a few weeks ago, I ran into a colleague I went to journalism school with. She and I took a class on international media systems and traveled to Canada with our professor to study

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Social Media Policies for Professionals

Having successfully navigated through the first two months of my graduate program, I’m painfully aware of the culture clashes among my various worlds. I could act one way while in college, another way in the workplace, and a radically different

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Adventures in Online XML Learning

Okay. This post is dedicated to two things: my venturing into writing XML schemas and my observations on the online learning experience. The Course The first one is pretty straightforward. I’m in grad school studying library and information science, digital

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Racial microaggression spotted on facebook

Whoa whoa whoa, no black people in the front row. C’mon man.. you know this… This was a comment left on a Facebook photo of my 17-year-old brother, who shares my mother but has a different father, who is black.

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Confession

My background as a writer and editor, having been both a journalism major as well as an English major and now entering a Library and Information Science graduate program this fall, belies the truth: I don’t read books very much.

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