Free Range Librarian

As Shifted notes, I agreed to be Jenny Levine this weekend, co-presenting on RSS in databases. It’s a topic I sort of know something about from various angles. MPOW has a very successful feed I’d like to take farther (I really want it to be RSS 2.0). ProQuest called me some months back to pick [...]

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So here I sit in my tattered green bathrobe I adore because Sandy bought it for me one Christmas. I am gearing up to move MPOW to its new home. Today. The big day. Final testing. Final tweaking. Wurra-wurra. What can be tabled til we go live? What’s mission-critical? What about those stray tags mysteriously [...]

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Heritical Librarian has a column in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and also on his blog, about the overweening liberalism of LibraryLand.
One of the tools for change in any organization is to find mechanisms to bring in the underrepresented. The article complains about the dominance of the liberal viewpoint (something I won’t disagree with, [...]

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[Update: third try, no typos. I thinnnk.] The New York Times had an article today about the various remixes (audio and video) of Kanye West’s statement, “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” See two of the remixes here and here.
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Just to start an Infinite Link Project, I’m linking to Michael Stephens’ post announcing a new blog at ALA TechSource, where I’ll be blogging. This is going to be a lot of fun: Tom Peters, Jenny, Michael and I will blog on library technology from any number of angles.
Free Range Librarian ain’t going anywhere. [...]

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Those are the days, approximately, we’ve been in this migration for MPOW. Sort of like being 100 months pregnant. Or a 4,000-year mortgage.
The new site looks so luverly, though I’m not linking to it anymore because the test server itself is moving early next week in a complicated maneuver I won’t explain. I am [...]

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Lipstick Librarian (delightful Linda Absher) is donating proceeds from her cafe press store to Katrina in September and October. If she makes her goal of $200, for Halloween she will dress up like Nancy Pearl.
I chatted with Linda today. (There are really only twelve librarians, and we all know one another.) I’m going to [...]

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https://secure.ga3.org/03/alakatrina
Thankfully, the powers that be at ALA have finally developed an online tool for donating to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. People have short attention spans, and the agencies that are visible the earliest, and provide the easiest tools for online giving, have the advantage.
I am sorry to see the online donation tool announced [...]

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I am not going anywhere. If I tried to leave my job, particularly right now, I can think of a dozen people who would hunt me down and bring me back. So don’t take this as some kind of broad hint. I just thought about the issue of being the former employee because I had [...]

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Particularly outside of the areas unaffected by Hurricane Katrina, it’s easy to get a feeling of “well, o.k., things are moving along now.”
I remember how weird it felt to be in California after September 11 and hear people talk about how they were “bummed out” for a while but–and this was not even October–they [...]

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