Over at Liminal Librarian, Rachel has posted the results of her speakers’ survey (this post includes the comments and links to the results). I took the survey, but also wrote Rachel “off-survey” to share additional thoughts. I had tried earlier to write a post with tips about speaking engagements, but scrapped it each time. Let […]
“No, my last name has nine letters, and it’s S-C-H-N-E-I…” This is a month between Places of Work; it’s not exactly a month of leisure–that would imply lolling on a couch flipping through magazines while my toenail polish dried–but it’s a month of vacation, in the more etymologically pure sense of the word (to leave, […]
Pumpkins, Santa Fe Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. We had a wonderful long weekend visiting my mother in Santa Fe. Food, touring, more food, more touring, green chili, red chili… we stuffed the suitcases with vittles from Jackelope and Trader Joe’s, and brought home some pretty earrings, as well. When we weren’t being tourists, we were […]
What’s on your library-technology wishlist for Santa? OPACs that users can use without training? Jam-free printers? A conference without any PowerPoint? Let me know by Tuesday, November 15, and I’ll consider it for a TechSource article appearing later that week. Of course, you could just stay mum and then comment on the item, but this […]
Here at last are PDFs of the presentations I did for SLIS South Africa in October! I had to reinstall Adobe Acrobat and then update it with a patch… one of those little projects. The files are SO much smaller in PDF. I know there are people who loathe PDF, but I gotta say… small […]
(In anticipation of my forthcoming job in academia, which surely requires at least a modicum of decorum even in one’s personal venues, I decided not to use several possible titles for this entry–but don’t let me stop you from suggesting them..) Today a journalist at the Tallahassee Democrat broke the usual silence about one of […]
Pfeffernusse, page 1 Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. You asked for it, you got it. I spent quite a while browsing cookbooks and surfing the web before it flashed on me that the pfeffernusse recipe I had mentioned earlier on this blog was in a small bound book I briefly used for recording recipes in the […]
You Guys!!! Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. This was a delightful (and much-needed) good-bye gift from FPOW (Former Place of Work)–not just coffee and a mug, but a pound a month for a year of the best coffee in the world, Peet’s! Wendy, Pat, Maria, Jennifer, and Charlotte–I’ll miss you folks! I’d tell you to behave, […]
I’m off to help make jam and pickles at church for our annual holiday bazaar–a wonderful, peaceful, fun experience because I do not have to make a single decision; I chop, peel, stir, measure, wash, strain, and ladle under strict supervision from the Jam Ladies–but I had a thought about LibraryThing, and the thought leaked […]
I ended up not going to Michigan for what would have been a very fun dog and pony show among people I thoroughly enjoy. Yesterday I had a disastrous morning where despite feeling queasy and exhausted I showed up at the airport with plenty of time to spare, but by the time I went back […]