a sometimes blog about mostly libraries
The 2009 list of LJ Movers and Shakers is out. I nominated three amazing people, all of whom make the (library) world better: Chad Boeninger at Ohio University Lia Friedman at UC San Diego Sarah Houghton-Jan at San Jose Public LJ also published an interactive map of all the MSers since 2002: Next year, please... Continue Reading →
Maybe I'm seven years old for finding humor in this: If only all conference fodder could be so amazing. If you're going to ACRL next week and aren't too busy visiting Gaylord, please come to my program:
Wonder of wonders, my amazing and mildly technophobic mother joined Facebook to see the x-rays of my broken shoulder. I suggested an image of her being crowned homecoming queen of Permian High School in Odessa, Texas, as her profile picture (she was also head cheerleader, of course.) This morning, I got the following message describing her... Continue Reading →
This gem of a busted shoulder happened while I was riding to work yesterday morning, thinking about my first blog post after a long hiatus (I got off relatively easy - fracture, no surgery necessary... I was doored, of course). I had just been listening to an episode of KQED's Forum featuring William Deresiewicz, author... Continue Reading →
Back to the grindstone in full force. I posted a while back on a call for presentations from one of my ALA committees. We've extended the call until the 19th of this month, so if you're involved in reference-related research of any kind and are in the market for a good presentation opportunity, think about... Continue Reading →
It's my birthday, ever a reminder of how lucky I am to have many talented, generous, and patient people in my life. Endless thanks to Lia for cross-stitching me my very own motto, which deserves a little provenance. She and I saw something exactly like this hanging in an old boat museum a while back... Continue Reading →
It's finals week at Berkeley. When I took this picture there were literally two seats open out of several hundred in Doe Library's main reading room. Go team. Not to sound cruel or anything, but collective academic suffering of this magnitude always reminds me how much I love being a librarian. This is probably because... Continue Reading →
On this partly cloudy California Monday I thought I'd share what I believe could easily win the World's Greatest Library Diorama contest, if such a thing existed: Created by the library's preservation department and surpassed only by the masterpieces at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, it is truly a thing of... Continue Reading →
An ALA committee of mine has a call for presentations that I thought I'd pass along - please repost or forward to those you think would fit the bill. It's always a great, well-attended forum. Chaired by the incomparable Liane Luckman, the RUSA RSS Research and Statistics Committee is hosting its Reference Research Forum at... Continue Reading →
I found the recent Pew study on technology failure to be an interesting read - it's quite brief, and begins with an introduction on the early development of electricity that left me a little mystified. Minor criticism aside, it deals with an important topic - how frequently do people experience technology meltdowns, what do they... Continue Reading →
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