Free Range Librarian

I had one of the best IM’s of my life today (or was it yesterday?) when someone from Planet IT IM’d me to ask if I would bring a pie to work.
This, on top of the worst work day I’ve had at MPOW. Do not ask. It has been horrendous beyond horrendous. I have had [...]

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I am really pathetically behind the curve on two serious issues. I’m going to file a tax extension, which really isn’t too bad, except I will be pulling together the details this coming weekend… the latest I’ve been. I’m also finishing five evaluations, which sounds simple, except this is academia, remember? Which means each evaluation [...]

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For our two consecutive open houses this afternoon, I have two chocolate pecan pies in the oven, tickling my nose with the seductive fragrance of hot butter melding with sugar, eggs, chocolate, pecans, and a hearty dose of Trader Joe’s vanilla (hand-carried from San Francisco last December).
If I had any thought of wearing an [...]

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Second look: editing the networked book

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I have been impatiently waiting for this moment for what seems like decades. The Institute for the Future of the Book just released a very early version of Sophie, its software for publishing networked books.
I immediately downloaded [...]

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In my mind, the ASERL spring conference–which I volunteered myself for, in order that Dr. Summers wouldn’t have to drag himself several states away shortly before he hangs up his ballet shoes for the last time–would be an exercise in goodolboyism. ASERL: Association of Southeastern Research Libraries. South. Backwards. Etc. Library directors in three-piece suits [...]

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Once again there is a flurry of discussion about the LibraryLand practice of charging speakers to speak, and it has become bundled up in another discussion, the role of state library associations [n.b. corrected Freudian slip].
I’ve worked for some great folks, but Bob was the best. I worked for Bob when I ran a [...]

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…That state associations had outlived their usefulness. I’m posting this here, right now, because it’s repeated in two places by “Librarian in Black” Sarah Houghton, who I otherwise admire and whose company I dearly miss. I corrected her on David’s post, but when I saw it crop up again on her own post, I [...]

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Some of us had heard rumors flying earlier this week. Two posts on ALA blogs, TechSource and Hectic Pace, confirm the news that Google has bought OCLC. I’ve even heard that one of my favorite blogs will be renamed “It’s All [...]

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