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Back From a Long Hiatus
It feels really, really good to start this blog post in the new year by saying that I am finally done applying to graduate school. My UW-Madison, IU-Bloomington, UM-Ann Arbor, and UI-Urbana Champaign...
View ArticleApplying to Grad School, or the Flaming Clown Car
“Do you remember as a child in cartoons how sometimes there would be a clown car in a race that as it approached the finish line would start on fire, have a tire or two fall off, and would make it...
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Racquet Research
I’ve been spending much of my time in special collections lately, burying myself in the large bound editions of old issues of The Racquet. I’ve changed my research focus, which was originally a general...
View ArticleExcitement
There is so much excitement in the air now that warmer weather has finally reached Wisconsin! It’s the tail end of my spring break right now, and although I have plenty of work coming up next week, it...
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WAAL Conference
Last week from the 27th through the 29th of April I attended the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians conference in Stevens Point. My first professional conference!! It was a momentous...
View ArticleLibrarian Mentor-iversary
Lately I’ve been so enmeshed in libraryland that it feels as though I’ve been here at SLIS for years, when in reality I’ve been here just under two months. Amazement that I’m not in fact stuck in some...
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Take Your Daughter to Work Day, circa 1999(ish)
My father sells paint, finishes and chemical coatings to businesses in southwestern Wisconsin. For a few years when I was small, I accompanied him on his travels each Take Your Daughter to Work Day....
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job announcement
I’m really pleased to share that I have accepted the position of Digital Curation Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Starting in mid-June, I will be responsible for managing UW’s...
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what i do as digital curation coordinator
“Hi, I’m Brianna and I’m the Digital Curation Coordinator.” My job title is such that there’s no way I can get away without a little explanation. So today I thought I’d write about what my new job...
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my job hunt: interview! [pt. 4]
This is the fourth post of a multi-part series where I talk about my job hunt. Read part one (prepping through library school jobs and classes), part two (library school extras), and part three (cover...
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RDAP 2015
This year (several months ago, ahem) I presented at the Research Data Access & Preservation Summit, held in nearby Minneapolis. I led a panel focused on different RDM collaboration and service...
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madison public library bubbler
This spring, one of the UW-Madison SLIS student chapters brought Trent Miller from the Madison Public Library (MPL) in to speak. I eagerly hiked over to Helen C. White. There were only 8 total people...
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uw open meetup
One of my new endeavors in 2015 was the UW Open Meetup, the brainchild of myself and colleagues Carrie Nelson and Jim Jonas. With half a year under our belt, I thought I’d provide a quick update on...
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Murphy Library Book Sale
One of my favorite Murphy events each semester is surely the book sale – for two days only, a whole room in Murphy is filled with miscellaneous textbooks, novels, magazines, and children’s books, all...
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Exciting News!
I met with Rachel Slough, Murphy Library’s new E-learning librarian, this past week to talk about working together on some library-related projects next semester. She wants to help me get experience...
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Blogging at Midnight
Time has been flying by lately. For the past few weeks since my last blog post I’ve been scrambling to put together my undergraduate research proposal – I’ll be studying the history of UW-L’s student...
View ArticleFeeling the Pressure for an Inspired First Post
Hello all. I have been planning on starting a professional library blog for the past month, but it had taken me until last week to come up with a definitive title for my blog. Snarky Librarian, which...
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