Relating to how change takes place from one stage to the next, physically, psychologically, socially, etc.
• Where do we take it? • [2½ MIN READ] No one wishes each other Happy Juneteenth. Not in the spaces where I hover. And I have 4 Black neighbors within 3 houses on all sides of me. Fair, one of them has a speech aphasia that developed in her later years, but that’s beside … More A Juneteenth Greeting
• Developing a voice • [2 MIN READ] On Monday, the 19th of June 2023, I woke up feeling compelled to reach out to a few close Black friends by saying Happy Juneteenth. One, a mere day before on Sunday had texted me a warm Happy Father’s Day greeting. Another had sent me a considerate … More Juneteenth
• Finding new comfort zones • [2½ MIN READ] Running is not only great physically, but also socially. It’s given me opportunities to interact with people of all stripes in spaces where I wouldn’t otherwise. As a practice, I started saying hi to people right from the start (we’re talking in 2011 as a middle-aged … More New Communities
• A look back at the timing • [1½ MIN READ] Imposter Syndrome At various points in my early professional life, across careers and employers, there was a decent bit of uncertainty. A phrase that materialized during those stages and that is thematic for many early professionals is “imposter syndrome.” I, like those others, was … More Why This and Why Now
• A look back at the construction process • [1 MIN READ] iCandybyWangC.com began as a renewed blog in 2016 (Timeline) with traditional blog-length, professional Information Seeking content. It continued in that form until 2022. In 2018, I began publishing short-form running writing on Facebook as Cerebruns and in 2019 as Ruminations. That writing eased … More New Writing and a New Website
“Would you give me a list of acceptable journals for doing my research?” It seems like a reasonable question to ask, but the nature of scholarly information makes it easy to answer in an unexpected way: No. It’s a problem I face every time a department goes through accreditation and asks me to provide a … More Credible Journals
Being a university librarian affords me some amazing opportunities. Like the chance to attend a lecture by a Nobel Prize laureate. Every year Arcadia University awards an honorary degree to 2 individuals at both our graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremonies. This year we honored Montgomery County Commissioner Val Arkoosh, M.D., and 1985 Nobel Prize laureate … More Lectured by a Nobel Prize Laureate and Returning the Favor
As a perfectionist, I annoy the completionists around me who just want to get the task done. Over the years, I’ve learned to give up some of my tendencies. I know I’m far from, uh, perfect. This morning I approached my office to find the work table outside the front of it missing. That might … More Completionists Can Be Really Annoying
• Cognitive development of the college student • [4 MIN READ] A few years ago I read an article about the cognitive development of the college student. It stood out to me because it described how students enter their undergraduate years with a dualistic view of the world. Through their 4 years of college, they … More Dualism and Gradations
I wrote once before about my practice of teaching people to pronounce my name the native Chinese way: Wäng. Lately I’ve spent more time and taken more opportunities to urge other people to teach Americans to say their names in authentically native ways. Sometimes those people are Chinese, but not always. Recently, I went to … More Expecting Native Pronunciation of Names
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