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My Place Of Work is featured in the latest Google newsletter. This valuable outreach comes on top of the recent radio spots on KQED and our less recent decision to run an RSS feed–we’re rapidly approaching 14,000 Bloglines subscribers (up from less than 3,000 a same time last year), and MPOW itself is now getting [...]

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A Picture Share!, originally uploaded by kgs.

Very hard to do self-portraits with a treo…

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Per an off-blog question, I can indeed provide an email and snailmail contact information for Mary Jane. Just ask!
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“Finding/creating a writing community is really important; you have to find some way to connect your life to the writing life.” – A wise instructor
Like most MFA students, I live in fear that post-MFA, I will never write again, at least not creatively. Some of this has to do with how artificially structured our writing [...]

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My latest post to ALA TechSource is up; I wrote it in a dead heat using several of those googly-eye-making paragraphs I am far too fond of, and our editor did such a nice job cleaning it up. And the post has pretty pictures, too!
I will be blogging for LITA at Midwinter, so I [...]

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As I did last year, in preparation for 20 minutes on a panel at ALA where I make a fool of myself, I’m again soliciting your input for the top technology trends influencing all things Library. Also like last year, I’m tentatively throwing out a few of my own, with the caveat that after nearly [...]

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I have some tough news and some good news. The tough news is that Mary Jane Anderson, who some of you may know from her many years of service in LibraryLand, has been battling cancer; not only that, just before this diagnosis, she had a bad fall and shattered her femur. Mary Jane is now [...]

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If you only read FRL through the RSS feed, you might stop once in a while to visit the actual blog, just to see what’s happening. Here are its features, some old and some new:
“On this day”: See what was posted on this date in previous years.
“Most popular”: See the top five most popular [...]

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This is the first of what may turn out to be a number of periodic reminders to change your Free Range Librarian RSS feed to the new feed URL, http://freerangelibrarian.com/rss2withcomments.xml .
I’m redirecting the other feeds to this address (except for the atom.xml feed, which I’ll continue to support). You may be getting the [...]

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Here at last is my schedule for ALA Midwinter 2006, conflicts, flight reading, and all. Conflicts and alternatives (in case a meeting ends early) are in parentheses. It’s so annoying how all those meetings conflict with my social calendar!
Thursday 1/19
Arrive 6ish, check in to Best Western Sunset Suites Downtown
8-ish: Dinner with M & [...]

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