I have several vendors I seriously heart, but I’m almost dizzy at the experience I had with our new search engine vendor this morning. I must be hallucinating some of the things I heard… (Technical note: they are handling most of the implementation, as my CMS folk are not search people. We’re doing it as [...]
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Miriam noted in a comment that I hadn’t said much about my MFA thesis. I don’t want to brag… oh, wait, what am I saying? I do want to brag! I do, I do!
First, I’m almost done with my thesis–a month early. I was pretty well done about a month ago, which is good because [...]
Tags: Writing
I’ve set aside technolust as a subject for an entire post on ALA Techsource, but now that the whistle has blown (and before tonight’s next station of the cross), here are several other thoughts I shared very early this morning before Movable Type ate them:
Stubbornness. When I hit our first budget crisis, in 2002, I [...]
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Meredith Farkas wrote a post about skills for librarianship that has received well-deserved praise from many corners of LibraryLand. I’d like to add to this list a little–and challenge one comment. Based on my own experience and what I have observed for the last fifteen years, here are a few more skills you need:
Cunning. You [...]
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The cat is now out of the bag, an expression our cats can relate to, since they love sitting in paper bags. There are days I wish I could join them.
Anyway, Team MPOW got the early warning, a few close friends were alerted, the advisory board just got their heads-up… the upshot: we’re moving, [...]
Tags: Family Values
Not much of a hiatus, by FRL values, but expect a bit of a pause, more about that later.
In any event, here are some kibbles and bits:
I was quoted defending the First Amendment in the Tallahassee Democrat. (I do like to read newspapers, you know.)
I am quite, quite brain-dead from a delightfully [...]
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By way of David Weinberger’s Joho the Blog I found this very scary description of the Internet by Senator Ted Stevens. Hey, send me an internet sometime and tell me how you feel…
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The RFID blog is back, now managed by Margaret Hazel of Eugene Public Library. I didn’t remove the old links from my aggregator, hoping against hope this blog would return.
RFID came up in the audience-question portion of the Top Tech Trends discussion at ALA Annual. My response–and I think that of others–emphasized two concerns: return [...]
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I’m sure I’ll be in the doghouse soon enough, for towels left on the floor or checking email when I was supposed to be listening, but right now I’m a heroine. All I did was install iTunes on Sandy’s laptop.
A year ago she migrated from an aging laptop and a really senile desktop to one [...]
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Library Garden is looking for tips about blogging. I was staring at this numbly (I had insomnia last night which means today felt many weeks long) when I remembered, hey, once upon a time I wrote about ethics and blogging, so I may contribute that.
Meanwhile, Life As I Know It did a round-up of [...]
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