Andy Priestner & Ange Fitzpatrick's Posts

You have no idea how close we came to losing this Rant! Listen while it's still here. Andy and Ange are joined by Donna Lanclos and Matt Borg, who discuss the UX Lib conference, digital natives, bottom shaped dirigibles and standing on the grass at Cambridge. We find a vegetarian alternative to Unicorn and ask, who uses hand lotion?

In which Andy and Ange discuss #indyref, the exclusivity of the March 2015 UX in Libraries conference, the coolness of Danish Library magazines (well one), and we meet the Currency Mosquito. All this and Mrs Mack too!

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Part the Seventh in which we introduce the upcoming Social Media Driving Licence. Find out more at http://www.blogs.jbs.cam.ac.uk/smdl/

Part the Sixth, where Andy and Ange introduce Georgina - the SPRI that came in from the cold; and all three talk about things they've said YES and NO to; and we discover that the rumours of death of Wordle have been much exaggerated, at #LILAC14 anyway... With shout-outs to: @DonnaLanclos @WatsonandOliver @theREALwikiman @mattjborg @meg_librarian @pauljervisheath @andywalsh999 @wordle (41 followers, 0 tweets - see!) You lookin' for links? UX in Libraries (UXLib) conference website: http://uxlib.org/ @UXlibs conference twitter: https://twitter.com/UXLibs/ UKAnthrolib blog: http://ukanthrolib.wordpress.com/ UK BIO-INNO Storify: https://storify.com/EUBioINNO/bioinno-1st-training-programme Gamfication stuff (Andrew Walsh): http://gamesforlibraries.blogspot.co.uk/ LILAC 2014: http://twubs.com/lilac14

Part the Fifth in which Andy and Ange are joined by their special guest Matt BORG, and Andy spits in his general direction. Live (almost) from BLA2013 at Royal Holloway University. You want moar? OK, easy tiger! Andy's 33 priorities for libraries http://www.slideshare.net/AndyPriestner1/33-priorities-for-engaged-information-library-services The gadgets of the week Audible, Kindle and Calibre, also read about fondleslabs on The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk

Part the Fourth, in which Andy and Ange promote Knightmare and Watson & Oliver; find out that they've been delivering killer presentations all along; discover what @lemurph thinks of the CILIP re-branding, and finally get to the *bottom* of what Susan is doing! More? More? Okay then... 30 awesome webapps: http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/infolib/2013/05/24/30-cool-webapps-for-fun-and-productivity/ Give a killer presentation the TED way: http://hbr.org/2013/06/how-to-give-a-killer-presentation/ar/1 The Bookseller on CILIP re-branding: http://www.thebookseller.com/news/cilip-rebrand-sparks-controversy.html The call for a CILIP general meeting on the issue: http://www.roper.org.uk/tr/2013/05/cilip-is-this-not-a-brand-snatched-from-the-burning.html Did you stand in the kitchen with a bucket on your head? http://www.challenge.co.uk/late-zone/knightmare.html 'What are you doing, Susan?' http://youtu.be/PTr-hNTSIhA

Part the Third, in which Andy and Ange ask: can you make a candle from BabyBel wax? How important is a meritocracy? And has the the Currency Horse been turned into a processed meat product? Yes, you can has more! To embrace your work life imbalance, PRESS ONE http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/02/embrace_work-life_imbalan.html To revisit your old tweets, PRESS TWO http://blog.twitter.com/2012/12/your-twitter-archive.html If you want to prune your followers or be insulted by Twit Cleaner, PRESS THREE http://thetwitcleaner.com/ Need to find out why LinkedIn is for you (you know who you are!) PRESS FOUR http://libreaction.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/8-reasons-why-linkedin-is-definitely-for-librarians/ And if you'd like to Harlem Shake in your library, PLEASE SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeXa4cHI4fg

Part the Second in which Ed Chamberlain teleports in from the UL to explain everything you ever wanted to know about discovery platforms. The currency horse also brings a cracking read, and Ange and Andy recount their recent injuries in grisly detail! Reaching for a pen to get down all the useful blogposts we point you to? Fear not, fair listener! there all here... For more on discovery platforms and Summon here at Cambridge, PRESS ONE https://libcamdev.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?cat=52 If you'd like to read about Andy's exploits in Denmark, PRESS TWO http://libreaction.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/24-hours-in-korsor/ That new book Rethinking Information Literacy by the lovely, talented duo Jane Secker and Emma Coonan... also featuring a highly informative chapter by our very own Andy PRESS THREE http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=8224

Part the First Andy and Ange's library week included Miss Jean Brodie, Wingdings and Skynet, plus they unveil some upcoming mystery guests, who are so mysterious that they don't even know they're going to be guests yet!