Family Man Librarian

This ResourceShelf announcement about the availability, for free, of a service called Answers.com, is worth noting. I am embarrassed to say that I had never heard of GuruNet (Answers.com’s predecessor). I’ve used this service a little bit and think it is good enough to advertise more widely for users of my library. I’ve also downloaded [...]

Turns out my worries about power outages from last week’s ice storm were well justified. Not long after I posted the entry, our power went out. We all gathered for the night in our bedroom upstairs, thus keeping warm. When the power hadn’t been restored by midday Thursday, Michele and I decided [...]

Today’s announcement of several new products from Apple was pretty exciting: upgraded iLife, new iWorks, the Mac mini, the iPod shuffle … I’d like one of each, please!

Some really cool news from the oss4lib discussion list today. Openly Informatics, perhaps best known as the purveyors of the 1CATE OpenURL link resolver, announced the availability of a significant enhancement to Peter Binkley’s Google Scholar Firefox extension. Their more functional version is available for download here. I’ve already developed a [...]

Yesterday I was excited to read about a new Certificate of Advanced Studies (C.A.S.) program at UIUC GSLIS, that focuses on digital libraries. This special degree program falls in between the master’s and the PhD. One of the things that really caught my attention was that those enrolled in this program can complete [...]

We have been hit today with a fairly severe ice storm. Employees were told to go home at 1p and most classes were cancelled. The big worry is a power outage. Everything is coated with a thick layer of ice and some of our trees (e.g. the birches) are bent nearly double [...]

Readers of this blog may have noticed how little I have had to say lately about things relating to libraries. I’ve needed a break. Today is my first day back since December 16 and I am grateful for the amount of time I have off as a faculty member at my institution. [...]

OK, so it is now 2005. Ho hum. One of my unspoken resolutions of the new year is to be more positive In that spirit, here are some nice, happy, positive things to write about:
One of the positive things that’s happened lately comes out of a big negative. We were [...]