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?
Posted on this day, other years:
- Dixievore Pescetarians Unite - 2008
- 100_2147 - 2007
- Google Buying OCLC: An Early Analysis - 2007
- ALA Election Returns Looking Good - 2006
- The Fool on the Hill - 2006
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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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