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I love a good sign, and this is A. Good. Sign. Congrats to ACPL on their new building!

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Most days my brain hurts when I get home. Today only my feet hurt, because a Very Important Person and I did some MBWA (Management By Walking Around) by literally walking through all of one library and three other physically separate sites today. It took us from 8:15 to 4:30, with one break for lunch, [...]

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No need to tell us more than once

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That would be it…

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You, Robot

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A good week–half of it at a conference on digital preservation in San Diego, the other half at ALA Midwinter. I’m back in the saddle and happy to be home, but it was good to see friends new and old. Even [...]

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Ok, two late-breaking events: PUBLIB Friday 5:30 - 7; OCLC Blog Salon, Saturday 8 - whenever.
1. PUBLIB’s party: PUBLIB has been meeting at ALA almost continuously since 1992. This ALA Marilyn Sheck of SPL did the legwork but I have not done the posting. (Ok… I could grumble that nobody takes this ball and runs [...]

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Prior to ALA Midwinter, I will spend three days among the metarati at a grant meeting, so my quick tour at ALA is not out of funding issues or boredom, but simply because after a week away I will be ready to return to MPOW and the family hearth.
Friday
Arrive 7-ish
Drinky-poos and dinner with [...]

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At ALA Midwinter in Seattle, once again I will sit up on a panel with a group of people I consider smarter than I am, and bluff my way through a discussion about Top Technology Trends. (It’s Sunday, 8–10 a.m. , FAIR Spanish Ballroom, for those who love Sunday morning events.)
But it wouldn’t be [...]

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I was doing fine with Meredith Farkas’ post last week about grotty library interiors et al., a post revisting a number of observations and ideas that I largely agree with on many levels. But yesterday’s post caught me short with this:
“I created the title of last week’s post (”It’s Not Just the OPAC that Sucks”) [...]

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Two other thoughts to share:
1. For a newsy blog, I strongly recommend a word count for blog entries. If you have to write it in 75 to 100 words, you’ll be concise. (75 words was the limit for entries at FPOW; there’s no serious magic to this, but when we went from 100 to 75 [...]

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This day started creakily–I had insomnia last night for two hours, so had to push myself out of bed, and was flapping my wings and squawking as I raced out of the house–but then it ascended into glory.
First there was yet another site visit to one of the campus libraries. I enjoyed meeting with [...]

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