Free Range Librarian

Roy Tennant is crazy… like a fox. Libraryland’s mega-star is headed to The Big O, where if there is any justice he will soon be doing PowerPoint shows demonstrating all the ways WorldCat needs to be fixed, and instead of getting appeasing little emails from inside the Big O about all they plan to do [...]

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That title is my homage to Alanis Morisette, who did right by all women when she parodied The Black-Eyed Peas’ annoying song where Fergie bleats in double-time about her “lumps,” “humps,” and “trunks,” and patters through such deathless prose as “Watcha gonna do with all them ass/All them ass inside them jeans.”
This morning I [...]

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The blog upgrade proceeds apace. I won’t show you the staging blog, as I plan to kill it tonight, but after much grinding and thinking, Wordpress imported all 1100+ entries and bazillion comments, and pointed correctly to images and other media. Most delightfully, WordPress only imported published comments, leaving behind thousands of bits of [...]

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1. Send out at least one essay every day;
2. Work out at the Y;
3. Move this blog to WordPress;
4. Figure out the next fifteen years.
I am toying between one very interesting possibility versus the idea that if I can migrate to a decent self-payer health benefit plan such as I had in California (Sandy’s [...]

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A couple of weeks ago a physicist who had been exchanging pleasantries by email with me commented that I seemed down, and I told him it felt as if my life were assembled from someone [...]

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About a year ago I attended “Life after MFA,” an all-day seminar held by my MFA program. I found these notes while transcribing my old class notes (a small, useful project I’ve been busy with since last fall), and they make a nice follow-up to my earlier post, Being Able to Write.
General Advice
The day [...]

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The Sophie networked book project now has a blog!
I played with Sophie’s release 5 last weekend, and also walked through a very handy tutorial (also available on the blog). The tutorial cleared up a lot for me; an hour later, I had a finished book, complete with text, image, movie, and other interesting functions. [...]

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I admit I just sat here and listened to this podcast of me by John Lindner of the Baltimore Sun, and my only defense is that the questions were excellent and the editing equally fine. It was fun to be able to talk about library use, intellectual freedom, children’s services, the Open Content Alliance, the [...]

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I’m keynoting at NASIG in late May, and I’m trying to suss out this agreement. I had anticipated that, per usual, I would put my presentation online, and possibly stuff it into our library’s IR. It sounds as if I would have to wait for it to appear in Serials Librarian to do that. Do [...]

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For a week I’ve been trying to swim to the surface to share this with you. The whole article is wonderful, but one section tugged at my soul:
“Like sentences, shell beans are a great deal more trouble to produce than anyone who isn’t producing them knows. You have to shell the beans, slipping open the [...]

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