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Graham Lavender

Graham Lavender

Toronto-based information professional with academic business librarian experience
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Just witnessed an impressive parade of York University students past Scott Lib carrying flags and dressed in traditional national costumes
Librarians are also too polite to interrupt speakers who have gone over time #sc12
As I was just saying, Ulla says there's a lot of (ie, too much) modesty in our profession. Stop saying "it was nothing" #sc12
Don't be afraid to negotiate your job offer. It may actually make the employer respect you more #sc12
Librarians are too self deprecating. Don't hesitate to call yourself an expert (maybe don't put it so bluntly, though) #sc12
I have to be honest, I'm not interested in pausing to reflect in the middle of a talk. I'm here to listen to the speaker. #sc12
This morning there's a whole series of talks about library careers - a great idea for job hunters! #sc12
Learning how Art and his article friends get loaded into Scholars Portal #sc12
Productivity tools in the cloud is starting - huge room and everyone is sitting at the back :P #sc12
RT @zotero: Say hello to ZotPad, the first iPad client for Zotero. Many thanks to Mikko Rönkkö for the great work! http://itunes.apple.com/us...
Zotero 3.0 is here! I've been using the beta for a while now, and it is a significant improvement over 2.1 - http://www.zotero.org/blog...
Creating subject guides that students will use - http://inspiredlibraryschoolst...
Congrats to HathiTrust - 10 million volumes in their digital collections! http://www.hathitrust.org/blogs...
All academic librarians should be paying close attention to the situation at Harvard #hlth
Canadians to join Wikipedia protest of anti-piracy act - CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/news...
Elsevier-funded NY Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney Wants to Deny Americans Access to Taxpayer Funded Research http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog...
Libraries: disseminating information through the most commodious methods for centuries http://inspiredlibraryschoolst...
The library, as described by the 1771 Encyclopædia Britannica - http://inspiredlibraryschoolst...
Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox | TorrentFreak http://t.co/byhu6oHd via @torrentfreak
This blows my mind: Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration http://t.co/JxDyPBxB
Information Tyrannosaur: Courses I Wish They’d Offered in Library School http://t.co/ExVvXeDV
Many thanks to everyone who made tonight's CODE (http://t.co/HjAjPDrI) fundraiser a huge success!
Today I had the honour of presenting the SLA Eastern Canada Chapter Member of the Year award to André Gionet. Congrats, André!
Just discovered CBC Radio's online hip hop station - all Canadian indie hip hop! Amazing music for when I'm writing http://t.co/M0T87nhk
If you're a new librarian and intimidated by the thought of giving a conference presentation, give a lightning talk #futurelibs
Karen Adams says academic libraries in manitoba are hiring. Too much of a commute from Toronto for me #futurelibs
I think mentorship is the best way to get new librarians started on research #futurelibs
New grads do not arrive at academic positions prepared to start research projects. Should library schools address this? #futurelibs
Slides for next session have CC license. Why don't all library presentations have this? #futurelibs
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