There has been quite an interesting discussion on Web4Lib these past few days on the topic of the role or place of the library catalog vis-a-vis federated searching. I have some strong views about this but have enjoyed the thoughtful perspectives of several others. Check this out at Web4Lib’s archive and look [...]

Keegan has been on the high honor roll at his school for most of the year and as a reward, was scheduled to go with other kids from his school to Chicago for the day today. Unfortunately he became sick to his stomach last night and spent the night throwing up several times. [...]

Yesterday was a pretty long day for me. Our library is part of the PALNI (Private Academic Library Network of Indiana) consortium and we had a consortial meeting yesterday at PALNI HQ, which is at INCOLSA’s offices. (INCOLSA is yet another library consortium but one that has a broader, statewide membership.) [...]

Yesterday Keegan and I spent most of the afternoon building a new Little Tikes playground set. Tristan and Brinley are pretty thrilled with it already! Click here to see a photo and description. We bought it from Meijer’s at a pretty good price. Michele has been wanting to get something [...]

Just finished webifying a preprint version of an article I wrote for the summer 2004 issue of Serials Review . It’s entitled “Which Route Do I Take? A Viewpoint on Locally-Developed vs. Commercially Available Journal Management Solutions” and I hope it’ll garner at least a bit of interest in terms of the [...]

I’m about out of my mind with feeling overwhelmed by work and personal life, so why am I adding a new thing into my life like this blog? Well, for several reasons. One is to gain some firsthand experience with this new medium of expression. Another is to more readily share what’s [...]