[slightly revised and expanded from first post a few hours ago.] Everyone grumbles about ALA at some point or another. “The conference event planner sucks.” (Actually, the event planner hates me. This conference it stopped acknowledging me altogether.) “The conference is in the wrong location.” (Memo to ALA: Orlando is hot in late June, and […]
As soon as the ALA election ended, I felt queasy. Sure enough, the results came in, and while I was pleased to see that Jim Rettig had won the presidency (though it still irks me that the race was between Jim and Nancy Davenport, two worthy individuals), I was ashamed that Jo Ann Pinder had […]
I upgraded a test blog to WordPress 2.2 yesterday morning, and then–because it’s not really a test blog, like most development sites I actually have a use for it, like, um, a meeting with a church web committee tomorrow evening–found myself in conniptions dealing with upgrade aftermath–nothing huge, but it ate several hours. Overall, the […]
Toes in warm sand Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. More than one person has asked me what I’m doing these days. My days are pleasantly full without being crazy-making. I’m enjoying where I am right now–and appreciating that it won’t last forever. My days include: Following through with job leads, which includes the usual form-filling, trip-taking, […]
Perhaps I’m feeling frisky because Jerry Falwell just died, or because I did my first Wikipedia edit, which was to the Wikinews article about him (I changed “reverend”–which is not a noun–to “minister”; it wasn’t the only style problem with this article, but it was the one that bugged me enough to take action). But […]
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Ron Miller, a freelance writer, posts about using libraries to do “old-fashioned research.” It’s a flattering post, but several flags popped up for me: first, that a public library couldn’t meet his needs; second, the silos between academic and public libraries (as Frank Paynter notes, when you’re out of academia, you’re cut off from all […]
39-cent stamps Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. (a work in progress, as this post got posted live and now I’m writing it in pieces throughout this evening, saving as I go along.) Today, while a breeze stirred the preternaturally dry spring air, I sent out six essays. I don’t buy lottery tickets; I lose interest in […]
I move between many cultures, and as I ride that bus, I pick up habits from one and transfer them to another whether I mean to or not. So recently I was IM’ing with a friend, and after the second time I corrected a term I had misspelled, he pointed out that was unnecessary (he […]
Here’s a blog post that could be fun for librarians to weigh in on: Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors, asks about the role of reviews in buying books that you “read.” I put ‘read’ in quotation marks because so many of FRL’s readers are librarians who buy […]