Free Range Librarian

A tree in our front yard is brushed with pink, and grey-green streams of Spanish moss sway in the breeze. Woody, a huge woodpecker in tuxedo and bright red fez, clings to a telephone pole as he drills for his petit dejeuner, rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat. Black Cat, our scruffy neighborhood scout, patrols up and down the [...]

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Ninety-five percent of ALA is stuck in the antebellum period, but Jim is communicating by YouTube. Gets it. Seriously. Knows getting it equals doing it.
Vote for Jim!
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I changed the fonts (there’s a command in Powerpoint called Change Fonts, and you know, it actually works…) and here it is again in PowerPoint. I also cranked it into Acrobat, but then you don’t get the notes (what’s all this about kittens, etc.?).
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My PowerPoint from yesterday’s Code4Lib Keynote may look like gibberish to you… I should have realized that if my slides couldn’t display on Roy’s laptop, that pointed to a bigger problem!
When I get home tonight I’ll do the PowerPoint-to-Acrobat dance–that should take all of five minutes. Also, all the sessions have been videotaped, and will [...]

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I’ve uploaded my Code4Lib 2007 Keynote.
Has it really been almost a week? I spent Sunday afternoon listening to podcasts while my old Honda Civic purred its way to Atlanta, depositing me at the Hotel Indigo, which was, indeed, all indigo and crisp white, with delightful staff and a Jack Russell terrier snoozing in a [...]

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