Author: Kenley Neufeld

My Musical Tastes

I’m not surprised by actual musical tastes as recorded by last.fm since 2008. I’m into indie, folk, rock, experimental and electronic, including (artists in the order of number of plays): David Sylvian, Radiohead, U2, Shearwater, Sufjan Stevens, Elbow, Beck, Daniel Lanois, The Flaming Lips, Spiritualized, Porcupine Tree, Joe Henry, Björk, Grizzly Bear, Andrew Bird, Bill Frisell,…

October 10, 2012
Fall Beginnings and Time to Breathe

Students, thousands of them, fill all spaces in the library. Lines form to use computers and textbooks. All library staff are on their feet every moment the library is open to direct and support any need. Students come and go with alacrity, which is a joy to experience, and I smile to our role as…

September 16, 2012
The First Week with OCLC’s WorldShare Management

The power was completely out for half the campus on the first day of the fall semester at Santa Barbara City College. The library, already a crowded place, was even more crowded than usual. We experienced our continued record capacity with over 5,000 students each of the first three days. The Luria Library also went…

September 3, 2012
Tomorrow we go live with WorldShare

With the arrival of students and the start of the fall semester, tomorrow is our go-live date for OCLC’s WorldShare Platform (WMS) at the Luria Library. I fully embrace this migration from our legacy platform (SirsiDynix Horizon), but I am clearly nervous and a little uncertain if we are ready for the switch on Monday morning.…

August 26, 2012
How does my garden grow? #natives

Taken at Lower Drown

August 10, 2012
Vanity. Pure and simple. I’m one of the earliest users of @twitter @instagram & @foursquare

Taken at Lower Drown

August 6, 2012
Can you place a financial value on your gmail account? Backupify thinks so. Here’s mine.

via Tweetings

July 25, 2012