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		<title>What&#8217;s your &#8220;local&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just wrote briefly about the struggle to invite and promote innovation within the confines of a 40 hour, a whole lot to do already, kind of professional world.  Kinda vague, so here &#8211; let me flesh it out with an example.
As manager of our IT department I know very well what my &#8220;local&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com&blog=1008963&post=44&subd=leapinlibrarian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/whats-your-local/</link>
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		<title>Think Global; Act Local</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something that is at the forefront of my &#8220;library profession&#8221; brain (as opposed to my mama brain):
How to provide new useful technology services to our customers, how to be open and receptive to ideas of innovation (and the eventual resource demands these innovations create), and how to do this within the same 40 hours [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com&blog=1008963&post=41&subd=leapinlibrarian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/think-global-act-local/</link>
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		<title>Baby steps&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As my baby gets ready to take his first unassisted steps, I am getting ready to take mine in regards to posting again as the LeapinLibrarian.
These words will sound familiar to any other mother, but my life &#8211; and all it&#8217;s priorities &#8211; changed completely on February 19, 2008.  Returning to work and the verrrry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com&blog=1008963&post=36&subd=leapinlibrarian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/baby-steps/</link>
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		<title>CODI 2007 &#8211; Web 2.0 Tools for Librarians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another posting from a presentation I gave at CODI
The audio can be found here 
&#8230;and the slides here:

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		<link>http://leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/codi-2007-web-20-tools-for-librarians/</link>
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		<title>CODI 2007 &#8211; How Sticky is your library?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello all,
Had the great opportunity to meet and talk with lots of interesting, excited folks in Pittsburgh, PA last week at the annual CODI (Customers of Dynix Inc) conference.
I gave a presentation on Weds afternoon, which I recorded.  And after more than several unsuccessful tries, and enlisting the help of a &#8220;more-savvier-than-I&#8221; colleague (thanks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com&blog=1008963&post=34&subd=leapinlibrarian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/codi-2007-how-sticky-is-your-library/</link>
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		<title>NCLA 2007 &#8211; Web 2.0 Tools for Librarians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A big thanks to all who stopped by my poster presentation on Friday, Oct 19th at the NCLA (North Carolina Library Association) conference!
As I mentioned then, this was just my way of putting some of the popular Web 2.0 tools into bite sized nuggets.  Please feel free to visit the presentation here:

Use the materials [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com&blog=1008963&post=33&subd=leapinlibrarian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/ncla-2007-web-20-tools-for-librarians/</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Trickle Up&#8221; Theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A big thanks to Helene for her encouraging thoughts about this little &#8216;ol blog.  And she&#8217;s right, I do tend to let time pass between each posting.  Since I can&#8217;t seem to keep up with all the cool new 2.0 stuff that so many others do so well, I decided my focus would be more on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com&blog=1008963&post=30&subd=leapinlibrarian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/the-trickle-up-theory/</link>
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		<title>The pit crew and the race car driver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite embracing much of North Carolina&#8217;s culture since arriving here in 1994  &#8211; from pork BBQ (Eastern style, please) to adding the word &#8220;might&#8221; before the word &#8220;could&#8221; when proposing a thought, to snagging my very own Southern Gentleman for my husband - there is one overwhelming cultural icon of the South that I just haven&#8217;t warmed to:  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com&blog=1008963&post=29&subd=leapinlibrarian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/the-pit-crew-and-the-race-car-driver/</link>
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		<title>Putting the &#8220;I&#8221; back in IT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one thing that I&#8217;ve learned (sometimes the hard way) as the Manager of our Library&#8217;s IT Department, it is this:  if all &#8220;good new technology ideas and initiatives&#8221; originate solely from me and/or my department, then they are doomed for failure (or at best, receive a lukewarm reception).  That is to say, until [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com&blog=1008963&post=28&subd=leapinlibrarian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/putting-the-i-back-in-it/</link>
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		<title>Library Envy, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got two words for you:  Queens Library.
 Yes, Queens.  That Queens.  Queens, New York.
I attended an ALA session, entitled &#8220;Transforming your staff&#8221; on Sunday, June 24th.  I won&#8217;t attempt to cover the whole session (informative as it was), because honestly my brain was consumed by the portion of the program that Tom Galante , Queens Library [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com&blog=1008963&post=26&subd=leapinlibrarian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://leapinlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/library-envy-part-2/</link>
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