Free Range Librarian

Sure, Michael, I’m in! I guarantee we have at least 100 people you’d pick up without batting an eye.
I’d post more to your blog, too, if you set things up to support non-Blogger authentication. I’m sure I have a Blogger login… somewhere…
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Happy Campers in Orange County, originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian.

Gave a talk about MPOW yesterday to a great crowd in OC. Couldn’t quite get the panoramic view, so this is just a partial crowd pic. It always feels so [...]

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Another good election year, comparatively. From the Council list:
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As of 4/11/06 at 3:45pm Central:
11,136 voted, including 9,515 electronic, 1,621 paper
This compares to 4/11/05:
7,549 voted, including 6,027 electronic, 1,522 paper
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Again, compare:
Total as of 4/8/04: 8,309 (total votes cast in election: 12,562)
Total votes in 2003 election (pre-electronic): 9,844
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One of the moderators resolved my problem with my new camcorder by saying, before you do anything buy a Firewire cable and try again. I did, and that instantly worked. I reimported a file, processed it with Nero, and burned it. The video quality was better, as well, as promised, but the big deal for [...]

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I’m having growing pains with this camcorder project–and that’s a good thing. I’m seeing technology from the point of view of someone who just wants to push a button and make things happen.
It all seemed so simple. Buy a camcorder (Sony DCR-HC96). Buy a DVD burner (Memorex 16x). Camcorder has software (Sony’s); DVD burner has [...]

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Turnout for the ALA election to date, while not spectacular, has exceeded last year’s slump and sets a record for ballots cast to date, plus, like 2004, exceeds total returns for the last all-paper election.
As of 4/6/06, 10,309 have voted, including 8,893 electronic and 1,416 paper.
Compare with earlier years:
Total as of 4/6/05: 6,091 [...]

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Made Possible By: Succeeding with Sponsorship
by Patricia Martin

(Eek: author’s last name corrected. Pretty bad when the book is sitting next to me on my desk!) When I asked Steve Coffman his advice about new revenue streams for My Place Of Work, without hesitation he said “Buy Patricia Martin’s book about sponsorships, ‘Made Possible By.’” [...]

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You have new Picture Mail!, originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian.

Finally, blue skies over San Francisco. Snapped late this afternoon at Lone Mountain, on my way to class.

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Perhaps this is a little too silly to even discuss… but it’s still raining in California, and I just spent hours with spreadsheets, and who doesn’t love a good romp with a dictionary?
Walt is entitled to state his dislike for the term “biblioblogosphere,” to propose replacements, and to point to “a number” of people who [...]

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Once in a while I poke my head in on Walt Crawford’s blog, and I noticed that he says he is “sick” of the term biblioblogosphere. I wondered how he could be sick of it, since it’s only a few months old–until I searched FRL’s archives and saw I had coined the term on February [...]

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