If you’re reading this blog and you live in Asia or know someone who is, tell them to get inland now. News sites are picking this up but word of mouth won’t hurt. See: http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/wmsg AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS ORIGIN TIME – 1610Z 28 MAR 2005 COORDINATES – 2.3 NORTH 97.1 […]
My apologies for not posting yesterday, oh you who are at the edge of your seats as I write about metadata and search. It was my night to help bring dinner to a homeless shelter that rotates around Palo Alto, and part of that experience includes hanging out with the folks as they dine; it […]
I spent the day in meetings for LITA Exec Board, and will be back in the grind tomorrow. To TGIF I say: SWOS (Still Working On Saturday). Nevertheless, following a great dinner with the board at Catch 35, I’m enjoying a lovely late evening in a delightfully idiosyncratic room at the Hotel Monaco, swathed in […]
This is based on a true anecdote, shared on the DIG-REF discussion list. The city of Denver is not only wealthy enough to have a Chief Muckety-Muck of Phone Messages, but does not leave anything as important as changing a phone message to just anyone, let alone the library administration. As an administrator, I imagine […]
LISNews has a good roundup on Gormangate, a bibliokerfuffle that continues to trickle through blogs in and out of librarianship. Blake’s post itself is amusing reading. In the arena of things not observed, as I predicted, ALA News didn’t cover Gormangate at all this week or last. I didn’t review blogs this week due to […]
I put in half a day of work on Wednesday before realizing (when a concerned neighbor came over) that my beloved 1993 Honda Civic had been attacked in our own driveway while we slept. The driver’s window lay in small glass crumbs and the center of the dashboard, or what was left of it, was […]
O.k., an irresistable coda to Gormangate, worth sharing on my elevenses tea break. Michael “Tame the Web” Stephens just suggested to me via IM that we all need a button that says: Blog People (Although “I See Blog People” occurs to me as a strong second contender…) Whether you are grievously annoyed by Gorman, a […]
(Note: this is the text version of the same discussion in last week’s podcast.) Drivers wanted! Two weeks ago, at the Ontario Library Association conference, over glasses of the local brew, Jennie “Shifted Librarian” Levine told me in no uncertain terms that girlfriend needs a logo on Free Range Librarian. Well, yes, I said, but […]
First, Jenny. Cites & Insights is an interesting newsletter, but I confess that with my heavy non-work reading schedule I don’t always make personal time to print and read a 20-plus-page PDF that is essentially one guy’s take on the library world–sometimes fun, but the print format competes with my limited personal reading and my […]
“Joining the animated fray, the United Church of Christ today (Jan. 24) said that Jesus’ message of extravagant welcome extends to all, including SpongeBob Squarepants – the cartoon character that has come under fire for allegedly holding hands with a starfish.” See the release at http://www.ucc.org/news/r012405.htm and be sure to browse the picture gallery! Bookmark […]