Free Range Librarian

Here I am at Council 3, feeling fat, tired, and poor… but bravely holding the colors for LITA. The LITA blog has been fantastic! Go read all the yummy techno-library goodness and leave your own thoughts.
I’ve had a really good conference and loved meeting so many librarian bloggers. A big, big thanks to OCLC [...]

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This week’s survey, and its responses:
You can be reincarnated as a literary genre. Which one?
Novel 50.0%
Creative Nonfiction 23.3%
Poem 16.7%
Short Story 10.0%
Total votes: 60
I was pleased to see so many respondents choose to be creative nonfiction. Perhaps I’ll do a subgenre survey in the future and find out how many of [...]

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I Say This Of My Own Free Will… California Digital Library is a very groovy organization. My Place Of Work has partnered with them on projects, and CDL folks are always a joy to work with. CDL collects some of the best brains in librarianship (or librarianship-friendly fields), at least those that want to live [...]

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A day before departure, I’m rattling between tasks such as “find sparkly black dress for GLBTRT gala dinner” and “test spell-check and advanced search on hidden server and try reverse sort on internal search.”
Meanwhile, in Blogville, I’m closing this week’s FRL survey at 5 p.m. PT today so I can comment out the survey [...]

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I just explained myself a little better in the post on Top Tech Trends. Thanks for keeping me honest and real… it’s easy to fall into inscrutable geek-speak.
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Update: I agree with the assessment (shared in msbosh’s comment, below) that I wrote this post in Computer Klingon without enough emphasis on more fundamental technology issues. I’m adding some clarification.
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I’m cautiously opening comments on this post, and will watch the resources on the evaluation server Dreamhost has parked me on. You’d do me a [...]

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This week’s survey is a chance to imagine that you’re reborn as a literary genre. What would it be? In my case, though I love reading and writing creative nonfiction, I think I’d like to be a short story. It would be fun to be contained within a small, completely fictional world.
Meanwhile, last week’s [...]

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O.k., here’s the deal for wi-fi at McCormick Convention Center, for those of you attending ALA Annual in Chicago:
You can buy wi-fi through ALA for $25 for the entire conference, June 24-June 29 inclusive. (Where? How? I continue to plead for details. Stand by.) Or you can buy wi-fi directly through the Convention Center [...]

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Right now, FRL trackbacks are off, and I’m not enabling comments for new posts; I may even have to turn off all comments for a while. I love you all, but here’s the story.
Last night my ISP, Dreamhost, suddenly moved me to an “evaluation host” with a note that my account was overwhelming their [...]

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I was shamed into this post yesterday at the Mountain View Public Library. While the guy at the circ desk boinked my books under the barcode reader, he asked, “So Link Plus, it’s good, huh?” Oh yeah, I said. “We can get you books from all over, at no cost to you,” he added very [...]

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