Family Man Librarian

The week before last I made what has now become an annual tradition for the past twelve years or so: a trip back to my alma mater, UIUC GSLIS (the best graduate library school in the country!), to speak to the Hendersons’ Technical Services Functions class. As always, I thoroughly enjoyed talking to the class and the students had very good questions about my topic, which was the opportunities and challenges of handling e-resources. Each year the Henderson’s assign me to be a mentor to one or two of their students in this class. I enjoy that part as well. I cannot say enough about how much I admire and respect Kathryn Luther Henderson and her husband, Bill. They have been my mentors and close friends since my library school days and I am thankful that they include me in their course.

When I first made this new blog public last week, to my surprise, who should pick it up and mention it in LISBlogsource, a blog about library blogs, but a former mentee of mine from this same class. Greg not only co-moderates LISBlogsource but also has his own well-regarded library-related blog, OpenStacks. And, he apparently is an Indiana resident like myself. It’s a small world. I was really pleased to connect with him again.