Comments for Free Range Librarian

Comment on The death of peer review by zoe

zoe — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:34:18 +0000

If it were any other publisher besides Haworth I’d be truly shocked. However for some time now there have been many questions about how truly peer-reviewed Haworth journals are. Acquisition by T&F doesn’t seem to have changed that.

Comment on The death of peer review by K.G. Schneider

K.G. Schneider — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:18:39 +0000

Jon, you couldn’t possibly juggle being AL *and* being the toast of C4L’s IRC channel

Comment on The death of peer review by Jon Gorman

Jon Gorman — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:54:02 +0000

Almost forgot, despite my fondness for heels and martinis, I do not acknowledge being the AL.

Besides, I rarely drink before noon on workdays, doesn’t that rule me out?

Comment on The death of peer review by Jon Gorman

Jon Gorman — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:52:48 +0000

Well, people starting to suspect that you’re the AL is a bit of a side-effect of claiming to be AL ;). That’s the problem when you post things like “I’m the annoyed librarian” as part of a massive joke/point along with several other bloggers but people only read your blog. Isn’t popularity grand?

Comment on The Whole World was Watching by Shiny, Happy People « Generation X Raising Generation O

Shiny, Happy People « Generation X Raising Generation O — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:24:24 +0000

[...] another friend reported a similar reaction from her travels down under, testifying quite literally to the fact that whole world was [...]

Comment on If it’s Sunday, it must be Melbourne by Anne

Anne — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:45:13 +0000

What has happened to our world reputation just makes me sick. Here’s hoping for a US recovery. It will take time. Man, this totally bugs me.

Comment on The Whole World was Watching by Andrew Pentecost

Andrew Pentecost — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:56:05 +0000

Jamie Byng, managing director of Canongate Publishing, who brought The Audacity of Hope and Dreams From My Father to Britain last year, ordered an extra 1,200,000 copies of the books on hearing the presidential result. Canongate had already printed 36,000,000 copies, but since sales at some book chains doubled this week, Mr Byng now expects to have ordered at least half a million by the end of the year.

You can buy them from my company at http://www.bennett.com.au

Comment on From Brisbane to Perth by Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:21:20 +0000

Thank God you got to pet a koala. Libraries, technology and professionalism be damned — Kimchee and I never would have forgiven you if you’d made it all that way and missed that opportunity. Yes, I need to look into this as a potential future day job.

Comment on Wikis, Synecdoches, and LITA Forum by Chad Mairn

Chad Mairn — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:59:20 +0000

I am a huge Tim Spalding fan. I saw him speak at Computers in Libraries a few years ago and he blew me away. I think some librarians feel threatened by him because 1. he is quite brilliant and 2. he isn’t a “librarian.” I think Tim is more in tune with what libraries are/should become (i.e., places of discovery and sharing) than most in the field.

Comment on From Brisbane to Perth by K.G. Schneider

K.G. Schneider — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:17:36 +0000

David, I got your last name all wrong! Chalk it up to one too many glasses of great Australian wine.

We are both looking forward to Melbourne VERY much. Lizanne is fighting off a bad cold and the back of one of my ankles is rubbed raw, but we are soldiering on.

It’s also delightful to see so many beautiful state library buildings. Too many of the SLs in the states look and feel like reeducation centers in juvenile correctional facilities. The SLs here are beautiful… and well-appreciated, based on the foot traffic!

George, I think that koala has a better day job than most of us.