Free Range Librarian

The annual state conference is not quite over, but I needed to get back after the exhibits closed, so I’m home again, home again, higgledy-pig, after a weekend of grip and grins with hundreds of happy Californians. Caught a flight out of Burbank last night at 5 p.m., four hours earlier than I had planned [...]

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As Sarah “Librarian in Black” Houghton has noted, there’s a kerfuffle over on CALIX, the list of the California Library Association, about the new CLA blog. When the blog debuted, some of us noted the links to the RSS feeds were missing. (The feeds work fine, as you’ll see if you drop http://www.cla-net.org/weblog into your [...]

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Here’s Roberto Esteves, reunited with his Action Figure! Be sure to read on…

As I passed through airport security tonight, the guard stopped me on the other side of the gate and asked, “do you have a little man in your bag?” In my exhausted befuddlement, I failed to conduct an appropriate reference interview, [...]

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Members of the IFC chatted up some key issues this morning that are just too good to leave behind at the conference…

First, committees need more than an hour to meet. We barely got through introductions before the meeting time was over. We may have to self-start this issue ourselves next year, by intentionally [...]

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A display case featuring the Librarian Action Figure, which Califa is selling at a discount, was stolen overnight from the Califa booth (502) at the CLA convention. How pathetic can you get?
If you have any information about this theft, post a comment or write me privately at kgs [at] bluehighways.com. If [...]

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In a late-morning rescue action, Roberto Esteves and I tracked down and released the Librarian Action Figure and her display case from where she had been held in captivity in a nearby booth.
Thanks to all of you who shared your concern and support with us during this difficult period.
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Have something to say about David Brin? I’m introducing him as a speaker at the Sunday, November 16 membership meeting at our annual state conference.
In the spirit of Transparent Society, the book that earned him this speaking engagement, I’m going to Google him and run him through databases and maybe even try to look [...]

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