“Blended librarians” in the Bay Area–those of us lovin’ the books and the technology–should try to get to a talk by Bob Stein about books in a networked society 1 p.m. this Friday, March 17, at the Stanford Humanities Center. (The tasty runoff from Stanford’s intelligentsia is partial compensation for living in absurdly overpriced Palo [...]
Tags: Librarianship
Third update: Jessamyn weighs in.
Second update: Caveat Lector weighs in and brings up both the Gender Thang and those absurd job ads that cram twenty people into one description. Right on, girlfriend! I too add that MPOW has none of these problems–oh, it’s lovely to be in charge. (Or maybe it does have problems, and [...]
Tags: American Liberry Ass'n
I used to walk the polls every election day. In fact, I was elected to Democratic Party office, Back In The Day (twice, to the New York State Democratic Committee), and then I really walked the polls, side by side with the district leader. Every election day brought that netherworld, surgery-ward-waiting-room feeling that it’s too [...]
Tags: MPOW
Tomorrow morning, the day we publish New This Week, we do the “big launch” of the annual user survey for My Place Of Work, but the truly observant will notice from our main page we soft-launched this afternoon.
I did a few things different this year. Naturally, we ask about the budget situation. [...]
Tags: MPOW
I have handled a few work crises in my life, from taking over a military training unit that had failed an inspection and was in serious doldrums, to not one but several budget crises at My Place Of Work.
I was going to list ten things not to do during a budget crisis, but then [...]
Tags: This and That
As a number of people have learned, I stepped down as LITA Councilor due to the budget crisis for my organization. It’s a case where I can’t afford to send myself, with my partner’s job ending sometime this year, and it isn’t right to use organizational funds for ALA attendance beyond that which immediately [...]
Tags: American Liberry Ass'n
Essays of E. B. White (Repr of 1977 ed) (Perennial Classics)
by E. B. White
Last night I dreamed I was in the library of a private women’s college; I don’t know which one, though it was in a rural setting, so I can rule out a few. The librarians were charming and wonderful, but to get [...]
Tags: FRL Spotlight Reviews
I was tickled to see incoming ALA president (and BiblioBlogger in Chief) Leslie Burger’s comment on my recent post, and want to expand on it, because I agree–and I think we’re all in agreement, however you define “we.”
Five years ago, when I interviewed for the position of chief bottlewasher at My Place Of Work, [...]
Tags: MPOW
I won’t say much more about it, but I want to reassure those who have asked that I’ll be fine, and even My Place Of Work will be fine–we’ll manage, with many new, good ideas. Things happen, life has its ups and downs!
I’m actually quite busy at MPOW these days, since we’re testing new search [...]
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trained kittens, originally uploaded by webchicken.
Part of the joy of a Flickr account is rummaging through your contact’s photos; I feel a little closer to a lot of people this morning, after seeing their lives captured in digital [...]
Tags: Cats Who Blog