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Exciting Choices Ahead

April 1, 2005 at 7:20 am by K.G. Schneider · 9 Comments ·

If you’ve read today’s Library Journal you know the cat’s out of the bag. Michael Gorman has resigned and I have been asked by a coalition of bloggers to run for ALA president.

Making this more complicated is that based on my recent theorizing about improvements to search engines for directory-style engines, Google called with a job offer for a new position, Library Evangelist, designed to build bridges between Google and our profession and as Sergei put it “show the world that Google is not afraid of the L-word.”

I am so oerwhelmed by the choices on my plate I am going to order up a couple of margaritas to steel myself before this afternoon’s talk. What to do, what to do?

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9 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Dorothea Salo // Apr 1, 2005 at 7:34 am

    Well, dang. Get my hopes up, why don’t you. :)

  • 2 LIbrarianOnTheLoose // Apr 1, 2005 at 9:45 am

    Put a gullible stamp on my forehead! I am just that big of a fan of yours, Karen, that I believed it at first!

  • 3 Amy Proni // Apr 1, 2005 at 10:28 am

    Oh man, Karen, you really had me fooled. And I *knew* it was April 1st!!! Sigh.
    Laughing (at myself) in Kalamazoo, ~Amy

  • 4 Rob // Apr 1, 2005 at 11:22 am

    Ha! This is very funny. I just clicked to this page, from a comment you left on my blog about a post on Michael Gorman, only to find that he just resigned! Well, sort of!

    Sill, makes my day.

  • 5 Tom // Apr 1, 2005 at 11:53 am

    “What to do, what to do?”

    Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war! It buys you time.

  • 6 Alane // Apr 1, 2005 at 1:09 pm

    Oh would that it were true! I guess the folks at LJ *do* pay attention to what swirls around. Actually, would be most excellent if Google had offered you an LE position.

    What the world needs now…more laughs. Tx.

  • 7 Dinah // Apr 1, 2005 at 9:56 pm

    They both made sense to me…more than anything else has lately. It was the two margaritas that made me think twice!

  • 8 Darius // Apr 2, 2005 at 1:53 pm

    The Sun shone for me when I heard that Karen might be moving into the presidency of the ALA. Finally, I thought, as a profession we will no longer have to hang our heads in technological shame.

    Darn April Fool’s!

  • 9 K.G. Schneider // Apr 3, 2005 at 9:37 am

    It worried me a little that some of you would think I’d have even one margarita before a big talk. ;-)

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