Cheryl LaGuardia
 Cheryl LaGuardia always wanted to be a librarian, and has been one for more years than she's going to admit. She cracked open her first CPU to install a CD-ROM card in the mid-1980's, pioneered e-resource reviewing for Library Journal in the early 90's (picture calico bonnets and prairie schooners on the web...), won the Louis Shores / Oryx Press Award for Professional Reviewing, and has been working for truth, justice, and better electronic library resources ever since. Reach her at: claguard@fas.harvard.edu, where she's a Research Librarian at Harvard University. User Stats
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Piggy TroubleNovember 7, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)  Given my near obsession with the swine flu, I found this graphic history and information overview of it both interesting and educational -- hope you do, too! (no vaccine available yet at my doctor's).More as it happens, while covering one's cough, Cheryl Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors Recent Posts
The H.W. Wilson Art Suite of 5 Databases: Try them all here for freeNovember 6, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)  H.W. Wilson has provided free access to their suite of 5 art databases, including: Art Full Text, Art Museum Image Gallery, Art Index Retrospective, The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, and Cinema Image Gallery -- just click here. ...Read More Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors Recent Posts
Having a Bad Week?November 5, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)  Here's a quick way to get perspective: take a look at these satellite images taken by the European Space Agency and NASA last month, and put up at the Guardian (UK) site. Now doesn't the latest thing that disgruntled (annoyed, disgusted, peeved, angered, irritated, etc.) you seem insignificant in comparison? If not, try going to this little news item, and all will be well again. More as it happens, and on to 28, Cheryl Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors Recent Posts
The Scariest Video I've EVER SeenOctober 31, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (3)  In honor of Halloween, I'm sharing with you the scariest video I have ever seen online. Be warned: if you have a weak stomach you should avoid this. It is both long and horrifying. More as it happens less frighteningly than this, Cheryl Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors Recent Posts
Getting It Off My Chest: Doing More with Less is Truly An Oxymoronic PhraseOctober 30, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (2)  If I see one more instance of someone using the phrase, “doing more with less” about libraries whose budgets have been drastically cut, I think I’m going to vomit. I know my blood pressure soars and I’m afraid my head is going to explode whenever I see it. I find it insulting in the extreme to be told that, despite an unprecedented (since the 1930’s) economic downturn (aka, “depression”), we in libraries can merrily just do more, with so much less. Let’s just buckle down, put our noses to the grindstone, pitch in, work smarter, join forces, and reconcile ourselves to the notion that for some time to come, libraries are going to have to do LESS with less. The halcyon days of plenty a...Read More Industries: Education/Training, Library Culture, Managing Libraries, News & Features, Products/Vendors
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