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We want YOU! To Guest Blog!

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This could you you! The fame! The fortune! The recognition from your peers!! It could all be yours!

CMLE members, and other devoted readers, we want you!!

We want your ideas! We want your experiences! We want to know what is going on in your corner of the library world!!

As part of our commitment to reach out to members across the system, to connect everyone together, and to help all our members to be successful, Guest Blogging is already playing a role in sharing information. As library people, we all benefit from sharing information.

So, let’s have it!!

You are the expert in your area. You have valuable information to share. You may have a great, inspiring, and heartwarming story of patron services that will bring a tear to the eye of everyone who reads it. You may have a story of funding gone so wrong that we shudder in our nightmares just thinking about it.

More realistically – you probably have an interesting service. Or a new piece of art. Or some thoughts about a new database or encyclopedia.

Whatever.

We want to hear it! Your colleagues also want to hear it! So make your voice heard!!

Email us at CMLE Headquarters, and we will send you some guidelines on creating a Guest Blog. Or, just go nuts, bang away at the keyboard for a few minutes, and proudly send us the results!!

(Can you tell this is not a high-stress activity?? It’s really not.)

Questions? Thoughts? Want to just share an idea and get us to do the heavy lifting of writing it up? Any of these are possible!

Get on this today!!! We want to hear from you – and are sitting by the computer, excitedly waiting for you 🙂

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Guest Blogger: Beyond the Numbers conference

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Enjoy a different perspective!


A Guest Blog from Simone Schloss. Simone is completing her final semester at Simmons SLIS and job hunting in NYC. She is currently interning at Tisch’s Lilly Music Library, Tufts University. @SimoneSchloss

What could be better than free data and a free conference all wrapped up into one exciting 2 ½-day package? From October 6-8, 2016, I made my way to the “Gateway City” for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’ bi-annual “Beyond the Numbers” Economics and Data Conference for Information Professionals. I was richly rewarded by interesting presentations, engaging colleagues, and delicious meals and outings.

Intended to address the challenges of economic information, the conference brings together experts to share their experiences at the frontier of economic data and information, to discuss problems, challenges, and potential solutions, and to identify ways to improve access to and understanding of economic information. The objective is to provide librarians and other information professionals with the knowledge, competence, and enthusiasm to disseminate economic information expertise to their respective audiences.

The traditional role of librarians in selecting materials and subscription databases is evolving rapidly with the growth of open data. More time is now spent advising users on where to find it, how to organize it, and what to do with it. The conference was a crash course in Federal Reserve acronyms such as FRED (Economic Data), FRASER (Archival System for Economic Research), and CLINT (Categorically Linked Timeline). A university professor summarized the opportunities and pitfalls of data. An agency director described the collaboration between public and private entities in the development and application of Big Data.  Federal Reserve Board staff discussed best practices for replicable and accessible data, surprisingly uncharted territory.

Outside of panel hours, we helped ourselves to generous breakfast, lunch, and snack buffets. Complimentary evening get-togethers were sponsored by BRASS/RUSA and IASSIST. We were even invited on a private tour of the incredible Inside the Economy museum. I made dozens of valuable professional contacts from among the 120 attendees.

Librarians and library students with an interest in the social sciences: mark your calendars for fall 2018 and share in this free treat! Subscribe to the GOVDOC and BUSLIB ListServs so as not to miss a thing. It’s all about the data!

Interested in being a Guest Blogger for CMLE? Contact us at admin@cmle.org

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A spooky book recommendation!

A Guest Blog contribution from author Alisa Libby.

Alisa M. Libby has been writing stories since she first learned how to properly grip a crayon. Growing up in Natick, Massachusetts, she dabbled in other potential careers in her formative years (trumpet player, actress, astronomer, unicorn) but instead attended Emerson College for a degree in creative writing. While at Emerson she wrote numerous short stories about the “blood countess” of Hungarian legend, which years later evolved into The Blood Confession, her first novel. Fascinated by history, Alisa’s second novel, The King’s Rose, follows Catherine Howard and her brief marriage to King Henry VIII. Currently working on a new book, Alisa has recently moved to Attleboro with her husband and daughter.
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Eek! A great Halloween read!

In honor of Halloween, I’m happy to share with you the origin of my first published novel, The Blood Confession. It’s appropriate for the time of year as it is, indeed, very bloody.

Growing up I had a tense relationship with horror novels and movies—my wild imagination and tendency toward insomnia could not match my intrigue. Often my bedroom light stayed on all night, while I was plagued by images from movies that seemed a great idea during daylight hours. Carrie, by Stephen King—Brian DePalma’s movie even more so than the book—traumatized me for a while at age 13. But I couldn’t help myself. Why was that prom queen covered in blood? I needed to see it, even if I would later regret it. Continue reading A spooky book recommendation! →