My new shed Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian I’ve found my shed! O.k…. perhaps not really… but this would make a great writer’s workshop. Makes me wonder what the Hyatt does with these between holidays. We had a great time in Savannah, including meals at Garibaldi’s and The Olde Pink House. The first time I’ve had […]
Cleaning the Laptops Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian I’m always good for a meme, especially one this silly. and yet oddly easy to do. Happy Thanksgiving! Bookmark to:
Through various means — social software, personal email, conversations — I’m getting the distinct impression that many newer librarians don’t care for email discussion lists (listservs, MailMan lists, etc.). I’m not fighting this; in part, as a social software kind of gal, I understand it, in a blurry personal sort of way. My own take […]
When it comes to modernizing ALA, I’m like Charlie Brown with the football. I cannot help myself, even though I’m now on my fourth committee/task force/whatevah dedicated to “electronic participation.” So I’m working on a very, very early draft of a survey for ALA members and I pull up Ye Olde ALA Policy Manual for […]
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In 1990 I placed third in a lip sync contest at Suwon Airbase, Korea, for my performance of “You’re So Vain.” I do a pretty good Carly Simon (though top place went to a trio in drag who sang Supremes songs, and they were great). So now I’m tied for third place with my real-world […]
White Crane, Summer 2007 Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian The summer 2007 issue of White Crane arrived Friday afternoon, two days before my 50th birthday, and there could have been no better birthday present. In this issue is my first “literary” publishing effort, “David, Just as he was,” a portrait of my friend David Hummel, who […]
I’m hardly the gentlest person in the world… I can be cranky and caustic and snappish. Sometimes, quite frankly, I’m a bitch and a half with a cherry on top. So I hope my response to Annoyed Librarian’s complaint about “twopointopians” doesn’t sound cranky, because she’s certainly entitled to her opinions, and she is walking […]
I tinkered with the feeds for this site yesterday (and also for the new church site). First, I installed Feedsmith, a Feedburner plugin which almost does what I want it to do. It redirects my main feed and my comment feed to Feedburner, and it also bundles my main feeds into one Feedburner feed, and […]
Quite often, I really love librarians, and this is one of those times. The Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan Library has ported the intriguing Ithaka Report into CommentPress to make it easier to engage with the text. In the words of the authors, “this paper argues that a renewed commitment to publishing […]