Free Range Librarian

I appreciate all the input. Well, sort of. I do feel I put myself out there with what I was asked to talk about and got defensive feedback from varied Cranky-Pants. Let’s see, of course I hate all software. Of course I’m talking down to developers. Etc. Etc.
O.k. … you know… I’m tired. I [...]

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Shopped til we dropped

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Ah, the joys of Destin!

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Remember that video of a week or two back..? I am not completely on board with every part of Walt Underwood’s critique, but he hit home here:
“Finally, the vid ends up with ‘We’ll need to rethink love/family/ourselves.’ Really. I think not. I’ve been on the Internet for nearly twenty-five years, I was IM’ing my girlfriend [...]

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I was practicing task avoidance when I strolled over to Feel-Good Librarian, a blog where some anonymous librarian in the MidWest shares the good news of librarianship. It is very much a feel-good blog, one that always makes me think and usually makes me smile.
Today I wasn’t smiling, as FGL was explaining that s/he would [...]

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Of all my training challenges, developing a keynote is always tough. The one I’m trying to develop for Code4Lib for my keynote is giving me conniptions. Do you hear an echo somewhere? That’s my brain.
I’m feeling more self-critical than usual because I feel my keynote in South Africa last fall was weak, largely because [...]

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Everyone needs a personal training plan, but I really feel the need for one this year as I get familiar with academia, strange duck that it is, and work my way back into the hardcore library IT world, which is a duck with three wings and one leg one day, one wing and three legs [...]

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It may not be sexy or all that visible; you can’t download it to your iPod; it’s not right under your nose every day. In fact, you may not be aware of one of the most important activities where librarians have engaged their values and skills for the last decade.
Nevertheless, please sit up and [...]

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Library Journal skewed my comments at LITA’s Top Technology Trends at ALA Midwinter. –unless, in the vagueness of the 8 a.m. time slot, I really did sound like a cautionary scold.
Part of the problem with this article is it conflates submitted notes with real-time discussion in a Forrest-Gump sort of way. Roy Tennant had [...]

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A little Interfaith 2.0…

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On March 8, 2007, netbib, Germany’s best observed library-related weblog, will feature an “all-women’s day,” featuring a call for postings by women on Web/Library 2.0 issues, to be posted on that day
Ladies, may I ask you to participate? Gentlemen, can I ask you to reach out to the woman (or women) you know have [...]

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