Monica & Rusty's
Productivity Tips & Tutorials for Academics
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...
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...
3 Reasons Why You Should Share Scholarly Articles with Your Staff
Not a long ago, I joined a Zoom committee conference call with colleagues. I didn’t know anyone on the committee and our first task was to define how we would create change in an organization. But first before we dived into the agenda, we had an icebreaker....
Library Customers & Engagement with Library Content & Services
Do you think your library customers are receiving your messaging the way you intend? Clearly communicating your services and content to library customers is something Russell Michalak and I are passionate about. Let us know what you think about your current messaging...
Reflections on My Delaware Beginnings Part 1
Also known as: Why You Should Advocate for Time-Saving Solutions I arrived at Goldey-Beacom College in November 2010, after working for a short period of time at Widener University as a part-time reference librarian, after moving from Claremont, California to Delaware...
Announcing a New Opportunity: Do you want to publish a chapter in our upcoming edited collection?
Rusty and I are excited to share that we have a CfP (Call for Proposals) out for a new edited collection with the working title, "Academic Plagiarism: Librarians’ solo and collaborative efforts to curb academic plagiarism". A few details about the call: We are working...
Onboarding in Academic Libraries
Do you remember your last "first day at work" at your most recent or current job? Did it feel like a smooth process? Did you have tasks - both policy / required and meaningful (related to why you were hired in the first place)? Or maybe things were a bit scattered......
New Uses for Tech: Increasing Student and Faculty Engagement with an Email Marketing Service
Let’s Talk Audience Engagement How do you know if your students, staff, and/or faculty are engaged with the services and/or products that you are promoting at your institution? Are you collecting metrics? How do you collect them? Oh, and if you are collecting metrics,...