Free Range Librarian

As soon as the ALA election ended, I felt queasy. Sure enough, the results came in, and while I was pleased to see that Jim Rettig had won the presidency (though it still irks me that the race was between Jim and Nancy Davenport, two worthy individuals), I was ashamed that Jo Ann Pinder had [...]

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I upgraded a test blog to WordPress 2.2 yesterday morning, and then–because it’s not really a test blog, like most development sites I actually have a use for it, like, um, a meeting with a church web committee tomorrow evening–found myself in conniptions dealing with upgrade aftermath–nothing huge, but it ate several hours.
Overall, the upgrade [...]

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“The gun feels much too good.”
 I was reading the first, early news about the Virginia Tech killings, feeling disgusted by anyone who could inflict such damage on anyone else but smug in my psychic distance from the killer, when my eyes locked on one phrase:
…9 millimeter Glock 19 semiautomatic pistol…
 My throat went dry. I know [...]

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Toes in warm sand

Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian.

More than one person has asked me what I’m doing these days. My days are pleasantly full without being crazy-making. I’m enjoying where I am right now–and appreciating that it won’t last forever.
My days include:
Following through with job leads, [...]

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Perhaps I’m feeling frisky because Jerry Falwell just died, or because I did my first Wikipedia edit, which was to the Wikinews article about him (I changed “reverend”–which is not a noun–to “minister”; it wasn’t the only style problem with this article, but it was the one that bugged me enough to take action).
But regardless, [...]

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 Free Range Librarian relocated its feeds when I migrated this blog to WordPress a couple of weeks ago. I recommend you resubscribe to the new feeds at these addresses:
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My old job was posted to FPOW’s website. It’s a Word document, so I’ll just link to the page that lists it rather than cause any link weirdness for my readers.
This is a great job for the right person, the renaissance systems person who wants to work in academic libraries. The department has some stand-out [...]

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Note: thanks to a worried comment from an FRL reader, I discovered several hundred FRL readers had been marooned when I migrated to WordPress a couple of weeks ago. I pointed the feed in question to the new Wordpress rss2 feed. Tell me if you aren’t reading this
I felt completely back in the [...]

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SEFLIN Board Talk
Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian.

A happy and engaged crowd! I used this picture, taken with my Treo, to demonstrate uploading to Flickr from a cell phone, and then blogging from Flickr.
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On Thursday, May 10, in West Palm Beach, Florida, I have had a two-hour presentation with the SEFLIN board about social software. Here is the “virtual handout” of related links and bits of things useful after the talk. [updated 5-10, 5-11.]
This presentation, to start with. (It’s in PowerPoint. Updated 5-11.)
Blogs, IM and SMS, Flickr, [...]

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