A few people have mentioned that I’ve been unusually silent on the blog this year, they are correct. It’s been a crazy couple of years for me with this calendar year being the craziest of all. Although I haven’t been posting much here I have been busily writing and working away. For those who are curious here are a few of the things I’ve been up to this year:
Science Online 2012
ARL E-Science Institute
APS Professional Skills Development for Women Physicists which you can read about here on pages 10-11: http://www.aps.org/programs/women/reports/gazette/upload/GAZ-fall2012.pdf
Invited speaker on the ALA Annual ACRL University Libraries Section’s panel: The Librarian Has Left the Building: Keeping the Knowledge Alive through Succession Planning http://ala12.scheduler.ala.org/node/162
Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians from Traditionally Underrepresented Groups
Joint Conference of Librarians of Color: Preserving the Present to Inform the Future: Issues in Data Preservation and Access http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/83/
LITA National Forum: Preserving Faculty Research: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Data Repository http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/84/
Some publications have come out:
Deards, K. D. (2012). Discovering, promoting and maintaining emerging technologies. A report of the LITA Emerging Technologies Interest Group meeting, American Library Association annual meeting, New Orleans, June 2011. Technical Services Quarterly, 29(2), 150-155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2012.650952
Deards, K. (2012). Changing the way we think: diversity to drive scientific innovation. Synergy 9, (5-7). http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/synergy-issue-9.pdf
Deards, K. (2012). Are nanomaterials dangerous? In Julia Rothman (Ed.), The where, the what & the how: 75 artists illustrate the wondrous mysteries of the universe. New York, NY: Chronicle Books.