Free Range Librarian

After I received an interesting email response yesterday for an article I’m writing about LOCKSS, I realized I needed to clarify that the Youtube Video I made for the BIGWIG Showcase emphasizes special-case uses of LOCKSS.
LOCKSS is primarily used as a long-term insurance plan for e-journals, and it’s particularly powerful this way because it tips [...]

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Artspace is looking for feedback on creating space for artists in Tallahassee. Writers, this means you too. Wouldn’t it be great to have a haven to go to? When I responded to the survey I said we needed a little space, data lines, and coffee. I could even bring my own coffee. The following is [...]

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Letter today in the New York Times (thanks to Ted Cuzillo):
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   To the Editor:
            
             I love Maureen Dowd’s characterization of the wonkish National Archive
             data collectors as the new “macho heroes” of Washington (“A Vice
             President Without Borders, Bordering on Lunacy,” column, June 24). That
             they refuse to be bullied and cowed by [...]

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Thanks to all of you who checked in when you heard that as of mid-April I have been unemployed (or “freelancing,” as I prefer to think of it).
Here’s where I am:

I do not yet have permanent employment (either local or as a satellite employee), but I have some nibbles in that direction, some from unexpected [...]

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Best:

The GLBTRT book awards brunch, which not only featured a very respectable buffet—the eggs were creamy and hot, the grapefruit juice was tart and cold, and the cheese blintzes were just plain naughty—but won us over with [...]

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I’ve been explaining for years that ALA Council is broken, and even suggesting how to fix it. If Council is too darn busy to hear from a member on an issue he knows something about, that just underscores everything I’ve been saying.
Aaron Dobbs has run for Council twice, and lost. I look at some of [...]

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At Saturday’s “Do Libraries Innovate?” debate (which morphed into “Can ALA be Saved?”, though that was fun too), I got up my nerve to share part of my assessment about The Hollywood Librarian, a movie about librarians long, long in the making. Well-framed blog posts are popping up all over, but LJ’s article summarizes [...]

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I’m in post-ALA reentry, swinging my scythe through the bulging inbox. So to resume FRL’ing, let me share this video last week for I created for the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase. Someone commented this is the first-ever kitchen video on digital preservation. It’s a bit rough — i couldn’t get Emma to stay off the [...]

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I’ve hinted at this before, but in watching the discussions unfold on the Britannica blog — discussions I have contributed to directly, in part because my blog post trackbacks don’t show up there — it struck me today, while reading Jane’s parody, that the only woman cited in the entire discussion is, as she puts [...]

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Note: I had another article published today, in IT Manager’s Journal. You may recognize some of the IT managers!
I’ve written about the cone of confusion before. I see other uses cited on the Web, and have no reason to disbelieve them, but the definition I was taught [...]

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