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LJ on Top Tech Trends: Talk about getting a story wrong

Library Journal skewed my comments at LITA’s Top Technology Trends at ALA Midwinter. –unless, in the vagueness of the 8 a.m. time slot, I really did sound like a cautionary scold. Part of the problem with this article is it conflates submitted notes with real-time discussion in a Forrest-Gump sort of way. Roy Tennant had […]

Love in any Language

A little Interfaith 2.0… Bookmark to:

Dorothea on DSpace

I respect Dorothea’s decision, but I often find myself frustrated by the closed comments at Caveat Lector, primarily when I want to say “you go girl” or “me too.” That’s where I was this morning when at the crack o’ early I was pumping a fist skyward at her post about DSpace. (I also wanted […]

Allen County’s New Library

Ask Here Originally uploaded by acpl. I love a good sign, and this is A. Good. Sign. Congrats to ACPL on their new building! Bookmark to:

If an ALA Councilor Fell Over in a Forest…

Most days my brain hurts when I get home. Today only my feet hurt, because a Very Important Person and I did some MBWA (Management By Walking Around) by literally walking through all of one library and three other physically separate sites today. It took us from 8:15 to 4:30, with one break for lunch, […]

My day

No need to tell us more than once Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. That would be it… Bookmark to:

You, Robot

You, Robot Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. A good week–half of it at a conference on digital preservation in San Diego, the other half at ALA Midwinter. I’m back in the saddle and happy to be home, but it was good to see friends new and old. Even robots. Bookmark to:

Me, Alexis, and Marie

Me, Alexis, and Marie Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. Marie graduates a year from now; Alexis and I are Done. We have our MFAs in hand. Before I began the process to get this degree, when someone said they had a second masters, I just nodded. Whatever. Now I know the secret. The second masters is […]

Zen and the Art of Home Theater Systems

It’s been a nice holiday, we have the week off (yes! I started a job less than a month ago and I have a paid week off–I plan to remember this when the going gets tough), and I done be graduated with my MFA, which I need to post about. But the big thought on […]

“the opac sucks”

I was enjoying a Red Hook ESB and avoiding finishing the online orientation session for my new job when I wandered on to the Laughing Librarian’s blog and found this video. Beer, OUT the nose, ON the keyboard. LL, you rock my world! Bookmark to: