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NJ SLA Lecture to Feature David Shumaker
On Tues, May 7 at Rutgers in New Brunswick, NJ, David Shumaker (author of The Embedded Librarian) will deliver the Alice Rankin Distinguished Lecture to the NJ Chapter of SLA. This evening event will...
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Effective Marketing Is No Accident
I’ve always loved the idea behind Info Today’s “Accidental” series of books: They’re written to fill in those annoying gaps between what you were taught in library school and what you actually have to...
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My Favorite Speaking Story
One of the perks of writing a book is getting to tour around the country to talk about the topic you’ve come to know and love. While I haven’t had a “book tour” per se—no appearances on Oprah or the...
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Don’t Be Afraid to Explore New Technology
Let’s be honest: it’s kind of amazing to think Pop Goes the Library: Using Pop Culture to Connect with Your Whole Community was published in 2008. 2008! And now it’s 2013. While we were writing the...
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Pop Culture Programming Year Round
At least half of Pop Goes the Library: Using Pop Culture to Connect With Your Whole Community is related to programming: Chapters 7 and 8, “Programming that Pops” and “Pop Programming Year-Round: Pop...
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Finding Help in All the Right Places
This was it. My first official job as a school librarian. After years as a Young Adult librarian in a busy Chicago suburb public library district, the time spent going back to school to redirect my...
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Staying Connected in the School World
I work in a K–8 district and we see our students attend a consolidated high school district. As I began work in my middle school four years ago, I was eager to see where my students would end up. I...
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Connections Between School and Public Libraries
With my previous time spent working in a public library setting was I anxious to begin ties with the public library in the town my middle school is located when I began as a school librarian. I...
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We’re having a book sale.
Things are a little slow right now in the office, so I decided to mix it up a bit before I start planning for my summer conferences. That being said, we are having a sale on some of our titles...
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The first review of Anthony Aycock’s The Accidental Law Librarian
We just received our shipment of The Accidental Law Librarian by Anthony Aycock and I’m very excited to start working on promoting this title. That being said, I received the first review of the book...
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Book Expo America 2013
I’m heading off to Book Expo America tomorrow to set up the Info Today booth and to get ready for the festivities. In case you are attending, we will be giving out ARCs of 21 Days to Success Through...
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ITI NewsBreaks Cover Apple Ebook Trial
Have you been following the Apple ebook price-fixing trial that has been going on the during the past couple of weeks? The trial is scheduled to end tomorrow, June 20. Two ITI NewsBreaks authors...
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It’s NO accident!
Dear readers, please allow me to shill for just a minute because my colleague Rob Colding has just put together a 30%-off sale for print titles in our Accidental series. This is a terrific series and...
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LJ on The New Digital Scholar
If you’ve seen my earlier posts about The New Digital Scholar: Exploring and Enriching the Research and Writing Practices of NextGen Students, you’ll recall it as a book we published this spring (on...
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Global Mobile Makes Its Debut
Peter A. Bruck and Madanmohan “Madan” Rao have put together a remarkable new book. Global Mobile: Applications and Innovations for the Worldwide Mobile Ecosystem hit the streets today and there’s...
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Global Mobile: Mapping the Worldwide Mobile Ecosystem
Now that I’m finished attending Book Expo America, SLA and ALA, I can get back to my overflowing email in-box and the many unanswered messages on my voice mail. But before I dive back into my pile of...
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Read a Sample Chapter from Career Q&A
About the book: Librarianship is an exciting and rewarding career choice that offers variety, diversity, flexibility, and room to grow. In Career Q&A, Susanne Markgren and Tiffany Eatman Allen...
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Computers in Libraries 2014 Call for Speakers
The call for speakers for Computers in Libraries 2014 is online. The theme for CIL 2014 is “Hack the Library.” If you want to participate and speak at CIL 2014, read on. Computers in Libraries has...
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A not-to-be missed career guide for librarians
Congratulations to Susanne Markgren and Tiffany Eatman Allen on the publication of Career Q&A! I’m excited and honored that these library career pros entrusted their terrific book to our...
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A Networking Book That’s “Unputdownable”?
Today’s the day! Gnik Rowten–that’s “networking” spelled backward–is the Man of the Hour as Ron Sukenick’s and Ken Williams’ awesome new CyberAge Book takes flight. 21 Days to Success Through...
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