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Video of Reference Desk Toolkit

April 20th, 2009 · Comments

Recorded with my Flip MinoHD camera, but only captured first 23-minutes because I had recorded the first presenter.

Reference Desk Toolkit from Kenley Neufeld on Vimeo.

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Tags: Library · Technology · teaching

Reference Desk Toolkit

April 16th, 2009 · Comments

I’ve been invited to a presentation on reference desk tools at Mt. San Antonio College on Friday, April 17. The moderated panel presentation is sponsored by CARLDIG-South and I will be sharing the stage with Michelle Jacobs of UCLA and Amy Wallace of CSU Channel Islands.
If I remember to video or audio my talk, it [...]

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Tags: Library · Technology · teaching

The End of a Love Affair

January 20th, 2009 · Comments

One of the toughest decisions of my life happened in the past two weeks when I decided to end my love affair with motorcycle riding. I’m almost crying as I write this and look at the included picture. I’ve been riding since age 14 when our family had a little Honda 50 for dirt riding [...]

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Tags: Family · General · music · teaching

Renewal and Taking Care of Yourself

January 6th, 2009 · Comments

The new year brings us the opportunity to reflect on the past and ponder the future. Our family spent two weeks at Deer Park Monastery with a six-day Holiday Retreat in the middle. The second day of the retreat I was honored when Thay Phap Hai asked me to participate in the planned dharma talk.  [...]

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Tags: Buddhism · General · music · teaching

Technology Tools 2008

October 22nd, 2008 · Comments

I made the following presentation at Internet Librarian 2008 this past Sunday and will repeat it again on Friday at the Developing Information Communities Professional Day Workshop for the Gold Coast Library Network.

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Tags: Library · Technology · teaching

Mindfulness at Work

October 1st, 2008 · Comments

I am the Library Director at a large community college in Santa Barbara, California. For the past three years I have been leading a weekly, and for one semester daily, meditation on campus. It is called “Meditation in the Library” and all students, faculty, and staff are invited to participate. The purpose is two fold: [...]

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Tags: Buddhism · Library · teaching

Work and Play - Keeping up with Technology

September 13th, 2008 · Comments

Unbelievable that it has been three weeks since my last post here on misc.joy, but some of you already know that the Fall semester has begun and I am teaching two extra classes this semester. It has been a blast to teach the San Jose State class again, though the work load is high. I’ve [...]

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Tags: Buddhism · Environment · General · Library · Ojai · Technology · teaching

Teaching Technology Online

August 24th, 2008 · Comments

Back in 1997, I taught a class for San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science called Information Technology: Tools and Applications on their main campus. This fall I have been invited to teach the class again, but this time it will be taught online. The first official day of this online class [...]

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Tags: Library · Technology · teaching