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I’m the real deal. Accept no substitutes.

Simply because several dozen other bloggers claim to be the Annoyed Librarian does not make it so.
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I am the Annoyed Librarian

The gig is up. I could tell people were getting close to the truth; last week I received email from unsuspecting friends saying they were tracing Annoyed Librarian, I have a friend who’s an investigative reporter who was poking around, and I didn’t want some Oprah-James-Frey-Nan-Talese-Britney-Paris “Oops, yeah that WAS really me” blowout appearing in [...]

Third Place, Again

In 1990 I placed third in a lip sync contest at Suwon Airbase, Korea, for my performance of “You’re So Vain.” I do a pretty good Carly Simon (though top place went to a trio in drag who sang Supremes songs, and they were great).
So now I’m tied for third place with my real-world pal [...]

A Couple of Urgent Updates!

O.k., maybe not THAT urgent… but two things:
1. The technology conference survey I posted today has a new URL.
2. My request for input about OPACs? If you prefer, you may write me off-blog at kgs@freerangelibrarian.com (some people already have…!) . I will guard your confidentiality.
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Another one bites the dust

Don’t let the door hit you in the butt.
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Three out of four people read books!

The “news” that a sizable minority of the population doesn’t read books appears scary, until you turn it around. A thousand years ago, well over ninety percent of the population worked a long day and went home to stare in the fire all night. Now three out of four people read, and the rest are [...]

Bobbing to the surface

My new job is fine… I’ve just been busy at night moving the church website and email from a local, Windows-only ISP (where Sandy couldn’t retrieve her work email anywhere than… work, unless you count Squirrelmail as a serious webmail client, and I don’t) to Dreamhost (for the website) and Fastmail (for the hosted domain [...]

Seven Goals for a New Job

One nice part about life is how many do-overs you get, on everything from your love life to your hair color. Tomorrow I get my first Tallahassee Do-Over, where I start a new full-time job that sounds like a great match. But like relationships, good jobs don’t happen on their own; they take work, commitment, [...]

Going off the grid…

Free Range Librarian is taking a short break. I’ll be back in several days. I had thought I’d do one last now-I’m-going-off-the-grid-and-here’s-my-last-gasp post, but then I flew into an office-cleaning frenzy, complete with flying rags and huge bags stuffed with old paper… I’m so enchanted with my efforts; I’m just five bookends away from perfection.
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I haz a job! (is neet! do like!)

Yes, the long national nightmare is over! I have real employment, with great people in a wonderful organization!
As a: RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
(It was capitalized in the job announcement, so I assume that’s how it is usually spelled, OH, AND WHY NOT!)
And it is at:
College Center for Library Automation (CCLA)
Which despite not being [...]