College Faculties A Most Liberal Lot, Study Finds
My only reaction to this news? DUH.

Pundit Faces Pie Attack in Speech at Earlham College
I have no idea who William Kristol is, but apparently he is a conservative commentator who made a speech this week at Earlham College. In the process, an Earlham student threw a pie in his face.
Now, Earlham is a consortial partner with my institution [...]

Yesterday I finished converting all of my web diary entries, going back to April 2002, into blog postings here. There are a lot of gaps where I didn’t make any entries, but I enjoy reading some of the earlier entries because they help me remember events and special things that happened. Somehow the [...]

This a.m. I filled out the rest of the online paperwork necessary to complete my appointment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science (UIUC GSLIS). This appointment involves teaching a course, Technical Services Functions, during the upcoming summer term, in UIUC GSLIS’s online education curriculum, known as [...]

Right now I am sittin’ on the front porch, just a swingin’…on our porch swing, with my laptop in my lap, watching the kids play outside for the first time in months. The weather is really beautiful, warm, sunny, with a nice breeze. And NO INSECTS (yet).
Michele made it through all of the [...]

I’ve been working with my students on a website redesign project for a while now for the library where I work. The existing website looks terrible right now — outdated and, as Ashley (a former student) put it, “Frontpage-ish.” ‘Course that was a severe blow to Matt’s pride The existing website [...]

Crerar Library News
I just discovered that some of my former University of Chicago Library colleagues, specifically those in the John Crerar Library, have created their own weblog, called Crerar Library News. As far as I can tell, this is the only blog in use among the libraries at the U of C, which I [...]

CNN.com - Jesse Jackson joins fight for Schiavo’s life - Mar 29, 2005
I have just one response to this news headline: Who really cares??? (I mean, about Jesse Jackson “joining the fight.”) I hope Terry Schiavo’s case is resolved in favor of her parents, but I don’t particularly appreciate or care that [...]

When You Don’t Fit In
This article in The Chronicle of Higher Education caught my eye today. Although the details are somewhat different, the reality is the same. Michele and I definitely do not fit in here in rural, east central Indiana. I wonder sometimes if we ever will. Or if I [...]

Google Scholar recently began what it describes as a “small pilot project” with a number of libraries, to link Google Scholar search results through their OpenURL services. See Google Scholar Preferences for a complete list of current libraries participating in the project.
It took me only a few minutes to achieve much the same thing [...]