Occupation: Principal Librarian, Collections
Employer: The Ocean County Library
Websites:
Bugs in the Coke Machine (wiki)
DogEar (blog)
College: Pennsylvania State University (B.A. in English Literature)
Graduate School: Syracuse University (Masters, Library and Information Science)
Professional Associations: ALA and NJLA: Children Services Section, YA Section & Garden State Teen Book Award reader, Emerging Leader (2010-11)
Committee Work: NJ State Library’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Future (2007-2008)
DISCLAIMERS: This blog was created out of a need to track my reading and to act as my constant companion during readers’ advisory. I share it with the world. Please, refrain from disparaging comments; They will be deleted.
The views expressed on this blog are my own. They do not represent the views of my employer.
Age levels are recommendations only. I base my recommendation on content, reading level, etc. They are merely guidelines and not hard and fast rules.
Happy reading!
Are they gonna make a Manga book out of Twilight?
If I were an artist, I would be on that! But right now, I don’t know of a manga for Twilight. The closest thing is the manga style covers on the Japanese versions of the book.
you rock sister!
Dear Nicki,
I’m writing a paper about barriers of participation to web 2.0 among librarians. I’m using libsuccess.org as an example and I found you there. I’m wondering if you’d share your thoughts on the matter with me or alternatively have already written about it/given talks on the subject and would like to share it with me?
My questions would be
1) What are the reasons librarians give for not wanting to use/participate in web 2.0?
2) What could be done to overcome these barriers? (What have you done, if you have had colleagues like that?)
Thanks in advance,
Néné
http://libsuccess.org/index.php?title=User:Labeet
Nicki,
Can you order the The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman for me. I’ll give you a my card number. Thanks sis.
Nat
just came across your blog today … very nice one
Thanks for taking the time to review my Melonhead. It made my week.
I love your blog.
Happy reading and writing,
Katy
Thanks, Katy! I adored Melonhead so I’m looking into Lucy Rose (I adore Adam Rex’s illustrations!).
Are you on Twitter? I’d love an on-the-go update.
Sorry, Kelly, but I’m not active on Twitter. Maybe sometime in the future but I just didn’t take to it.
Nicki…noticed you don’t have Jennifer Huberts Reading Rants as a link on your blog….
Judy, I just checked out her site and I like it, so I added it to my blogroll. Thanks!
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Best wishes,
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Thank you for taking the time to review my book, Illegal. If you or your library patrons have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Best,
Bettina