SRRT pushed another resolution to Council III, ensuring Council III will be so busy that we aren’t going to get to everything on it. This tactic is similar to holding the report in committee and claiming it is in draft, when in reality IFC and IRC finished their work on it this Sunday. It’s not […]
I found the rogue wifi hub; it’s in the ALA office, delivering network services to some of the computers. (Actually, I didn’t see the hub itself, but I did see the wifi USB adapters velcroed to the sides of computers.) Pretty good range… I think I’m a good 300 feet away, and the signal reports […]
Registration for the day stands at 10,000+ — about 2,000 down from Philly (Midwinter 2003). Activist Sanford Berman and parliamentarian guru Norman Horrocks approved for honorary lifetime ALA membership. Woohoo! CD 56 (Policy on Endorsements and Use of Funds) went down in flames. We now continue our lack of clarity related to division endorsements. I […]
Monday: still have free wireless. I saw two hubs: Instant Internet and “linksys.” The former would redirect me to a $25/day service. The second is the open free hub, wherever it is and whoever is providing it. Bookmark to:
From time to time on Council list, I have vented, fruitlessly, about the Current Reference File. But why stop there? Let me bore you folks, as well! Seriously, it’s an important issue, a very pivotal issue in terms of moving ALA to new technologies, and one the ALA young’uns should think and talk about. Bookmark […]
Son of a gun! I booted up my laptop in the Council chambers, only to find an open wireless network I could attach to. I’m a fur piece from the hotel, and it appears to be a different network, anyway. After an amazingly tough year, ALA is in the black. Kudos to ALA staff, who […]
The Cuba resolution I submitted to ALA Council will be on the agenda Wednesday morning, January 14 (Council III). It comes up then because that’s when IRC presents its report, and it is germane to the IRC’s report. It’s interesting how the process can affect outcomes. A report supposedly six months in the making isn’t […]
The practical question I have for my readers is whether you can recommend a comprehensive, freely accessible concordance site. The other observation I have, as reductive as it may seem, is that the Web may seem impersonal and mechanical to some, but many of the great resources on the Web are very genuine personifications of […]
Here’s the schedule for Council. Btw, if people are interested, I can transcribe relevant debate on the fly and blog it in near-real-time, at least salient comments. It’s not clear when the Cuba resolution will be on the agenda; I would imagine Council II or III. Not to be facetious, but the best I can […]
I needed to get this done by today as this was the deadline for electronic transmissions prior to the conference. Ergo, it’s a draft, and a rough one, rattled out as fast as my little fingers could type it. I have a second, who should not be construed as endorsing everything in here, but in […]