More link love today, as I work on my talk for Thursday (issues for will range from Ranganathan to Andrew Abbott; my job is to set catalogers forth on gossamer wings).
Jessamyn over at librarian.net says it best, as is often the case:
Someone asked me during one of my talks if I knew of any projects [...]
I’m finishing a talk I’m giving this Friday so my mind is elsewhere, floundering in the PowerPoint, but I was delighted by this news from the Institute for the Future of the Book (and intrigued by the topic of Siva’s next book project):
We are proud to announce that the brilliant media scholar and critic Siva [...]
Here’s what’s firm or nearly firm… a fun range!
July 19: Closing Keynote: “Focusing on Users,” ASERL “New Age of Discovery” Institute
September 14 & 15: Symposium on the Future of Integrated Library Systems, presentation and trustee talk, Lincoln Trails Library System, Champaign, IL
October 11: “Death to Jargon” one-hour online presentation (contract pending)
October 18 & 19: [...]
Over at Buzz, Balls, and Hype, M.J. Rose has a deliciously feisty post about empowering women to write. She points out how we are conditioned to see ourselves in service to men:
Women are expected to think of ourselves, and to package ourselves, as those “things”–as consumer objects. There is a narrow range of approved body [...]
I had a great eight hours writing yesterday — one of those long fugues where I only stopped when I realized that funny lightheaded feeling was hunger and that it was almost 9 p.m. — and though the essay I’m working on will never be what I want it to be, it has improved, and [...]
Of the emergency blogcasting system… I’m just trying scheduled posts. This should post around 7 a.m. ET on July 15.
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My latest article for IT Manager’s Journal, Vendor Confidential: How to Sell to the IT Crowd, went live this afternoon. I turned it in this morning… I love online publications. Love my editor, as well.
Meanwhile, I try very hard to keep this blog work-safe, but with the news that the uber-pious Rep. Allen had been [...]
Today is Tax Day in Tallahassee. Well, it’s Tax Day for me in my house, because I filed an extension (as I always do; it’s legal, I always have a good reason, and I do pay what I owe) and got my tax stuff halfway done and then got into the “hustle and flow” mode [...]
“For some reason I feel like 50 is a more significant milestone in my life than just about any other age I’ve yet experienced. I find myself assessing my career, trying to figure out where I want to be in the next 5 and 10 years. I also realize that I’m comfortable in my skin. [...]
Having done such a good job helping us into the Iraq War, the New York Times now has to take on not just Harry Potter but the entire literary world. Bad enough they should “prove” that kids lose interest in Potter by describing a boy who, at 15, will not immediately run out and read [...]
