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Notion for Academics: Style Your Fields
Today we’re continuing our Notion for Academics Video Series, Create a Daily Journal in Notion, with our second training video in the series – Style Your Fields. In this video, you’ll learn how to style your day fields for visual interest and organization. Creating a...
Notion for Academics: Start with a Table
Today we're continuing our Notion for Academics Video Series, Create a Daily Journal in Notion, with our first training video in the series - Start with a Table. In this video, you'll learn how to create the basic table you'll use to enter everything you'd like to...
Notion for Academics: Creating a Daily Journal in Notion
Today we're excited to share our latest video series: Creating a Daily Journal in Notion. In this video series, we walk you step by step through the process of creating a daily journal in Notion to track pretty much just about anything in an easy to set up format that...
Working from Home: How We Managed Our Team Remotely with Technology (with Notion!)
Abstract During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the College’s library and the office of institutional research & training (OIRT), along with all departments of our college, shifted to working from home (WFH) overnight. This column shares examples from...
Notion for Academics: Adding columns with checklists to a Toggle List
Have you ever tried dragging columns into a Toggle List within Notion? If so, you know that they don't remain as columns which can be super frustrating. In this quick video, we walk you through how to create columns and convert them to a Toggle list so you can...
Introducing “Notion for Academics”
I'll admit it: I'm a productivity and digital organizing geek. I've used many tools over the years to organize my personal and professional tasks and projects. Sometimes referred to as a Tech Stack, my productivity tools of choice over the years for task, project, and...
Leveraging Library Technology: Non-library uses of library technology
Citation Rysavy, M. & Michalak, R. (2019). Leveraging Library Technology: Non-library uses of library technology. Journal of Library Administration. 59(1), 59-73. (editorial). Abstract The library has experienced many conversations with colleagues at the college...
2019 Publications in Review
In 2019 we shared our scholarly efforts by publishing the following works: Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (4)Our posIT column in the Journal of Library Administration (JLA) (4)Our first book! It was an edited collection with Nova Science Publishers. (1)Book Chapters...
2019 Presentations in Review
This past year was another successful presentation year for us. We intentionally presented less this year than last year (11 presentations as compared to 12; check out last year's post here:...
Agile Project Management and Libraries
Last week, I shared about why I believe you should read academic articles and essays to inform your thinking on projects and share them with those you work with in your library and about how Monica and I are starting a library inventory project with staff that is...
Notion for Academics Productivity System
Are you struggling to achieve your academic goals?
With Notion for Academics, we’ve created an effective system that will help you organize and plan your academic goals – from big picture goals down to the details associated with projects (including tasks, deliverables, and resource materials).
Interested? Learn more about the 1st cohort of our online program which launches on June 29, 2020.
