Patricia Thompson's Page

I haven't written here for quite a while. I took my vacation, and I've been busy with the Learning 2.0 program I'm doing at my place of work. The blog for that is here. I also have a separate blog that I created for that program, which I hope to later use for more things.

The program is going pretty well. There are 55 people who work in the ITS division, including me. O

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I don't know how this happened. Things were going along just fine. Then I had to go out of town for two days last week, and I didn't have the next week of the Learning 2.0 program quite finished. No problem-- I could work on it over the weekend, and finish up Monday if needed. Saturday after my trip was full of errands with Tony. Sunday morning... I was sick. Some weird bug that put me out of commission. The bug was worse on Monday. I spent most of the day in bed. Luckily I am better today, exce… Continue

This coming week I will be attending the NITLE DSpace Pilot Service User Community Meeting in Hartford, CT. My library has just joined as a member of the project where NITLE libraries have a shared DSpace Pilot Service. A number of these libraries have already been using DSpace, and have created a shared repository that I think is called… Continue

I have toyed with the idea of starting a blog for a number of years. (I see this blog as a sort of trial blog, since it's part of my profile on this site and not really a stand-alone blog with a name, etc.) Lately, I've been ruminating over starting a "real" blog. What would I want to write about? Do I have anything unique to say that anyone would want to read? What "niche" should I focus on? What should I call it?

"The Overwhelmed Librarian"
"On the Fringes"
"Metadata Mias… Continue

This has nothing to do with Library 2.0, but I can't help myself. I have never been excited about a television show before, but I can hardly wait for Sunday night's final episode of the Sopranos. Any Sopranos fans out there in library land?