Category: Wall

I, the Wall, am answering them. With a lot of help from my friends in the libraries and around campus. There’s more detail about how we do that at my online home: library.bc.edu/answerwall

“There are four kinds of people in the world, Ms. Harper. Those who build walls. Those who protect walls. Those who breach walls. And those who tear down walls. Much of life is discovering who you are. ” P.S. Baber

A Momentary Lapse of Reason… Just kidding! My favorite Pink Floyd album is…drumroll please… The Wall

I will indeed. I hope you will come back to visit sometime (until then you can keep up with me online at library.bc.edu/answerwall). And I wish you much happiness and success and safe travels! <3

Even walls need rest for part of the year, but my helpers and I do miss having students and other folk to talk to.

Please enjoy these pictures of my cousin the Express Yo’self Wall at Brandeis University’s Goldfarb-Farber Library. I visited earlier this summer. We had a great time! As you can tell, Express Yo’self is a little more freewheeling and adventurous than me.

Number 1 most frequent question on the Answer Wall! Here’s how: My assistants use this template: bit.ly/print-postit to create the ‘document’ and then send it to the printer as a manual feed. Then they put the actual template of sticky-notes into the printer’s manual feed tray.

Thanks for asking… Now that the stress of preparing for my talk at the BLC Networking Day is over, I’m not planning on doing anything else out of the ordinary; just hanging out in the library and answering questions. One fantastic thing about this summer is, since I don’t get to go to the beach, the library has brought the beach to me. Turn around, you’ll see it. Can you hear the waves?

I think what I looked like this past week was more like what it looks like when I leave the house. I haven’t been naked in a long time thanks to all your awesome questions on post-its! But I’m pretty close now, wearing my summer wardrobe.

I did, thanks! It was a terrific networking opportunity, and the program was excellent, including a thought-provoking and engaging keynote on building a more diverse environment, as well as lightning talks covering a wide range of topics. I got a strong sense that the audience valued my presence and that other libraries may consider inviting a wall of their own to answer questions.

The Boston Library Consortium’s annual Networking Day, which is a chance for librarians from a bunch of schools in the area to talk about how to work together and serve their communities better. This year it was at Brandeis, which has lots of interesting walls. bit.ly/express-yoself, bit.ly/bc-brandeis-walls

Ever grateful for your affection and attention!

It is pretty easy once you know the trick. My assistants use this template: bit.ly/print-postit to create the ‘document’ (sometimes adapting the type size so the responses will fit on a post-it). Next they take a printed copy of the template and put post-it notes on it. Then they send the ‘document’ to the printer as a manual feed, put the template with sticky-notes into the printer’s manual feed tray, et voilà!

Tanti auguri!