So as is the case with any new job, I inherited some unfinished business. One piece of business that’s hard to ignore is that over 30,000 records have yet to be converted to the online catalog. They are in the card catalog, which for you non-library folk, means that they are essentially hidden from sight. […]
This won’t be long as it’s another iPhone post. I am delighted to be home again–I have missed California so much that at times it hurt. I know it’s expensive and crowded. That’s because you’re paying the luxury tax of waking up every day in California. Meanwhile for the first three weeks of my job […]
One of the facts in life is that library administrators take the jobs they take (and this is my fourth head-of-the-whatever library job, not to be confused with my various military MFWIC positions) based on many, many things… and the integrated library system they will inherit is rarely if ever one of them. I just […]
For a couple more weeks I’m without a personal laptop or desk computer, having returned the former to MFPOW and having left the other 3,000 miles away in boxes carefully labeled OPEN FIRST. I am also without TV. Sandy and the cats will join me in a couple of months. So my evenings are spent […]