Family Man Librarian

Last night I added in a new feature for this blog: email updates. Those who prefer to receive email updates rather than subscribing via a news aggregator like Bloglines, or navigating to this site on a regular basis, now have the option to have an email automatically sent to them once a day [...]

Another sign of ignorance is that I just discovered LISFeeds.com. I highly recommend this web-based aggregator of over 200 library-related blogs.

Several friends and family have kindly asked for an update on Michele. There isn’t much to report. We are once again waiting for test results and for word from the doctor about next steps. We hope to hear when Michele’s 48 hr. EEG test will be scheduled. I have no idea [...]

My library was the first space on campus to go wireless, nearly three years ago. Wireless use increased dramatically over time but the existing 802.11b access points were slow and lacked full building coverage. About a month ago, our campus IT folks upgraded everything with new 802.11g WAPs that covered all floors. [...]

Time is flying by and in addition to worrying about regular work duties not getting done, I have been thinking more and more about the upcoming LEEP summer session at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. I have signed on to teach Technical Services Functions once more. This’ll [...]

Call me obtuse but for some reason I did not realize ’til this evening that the one and only serials-specific blog that I know of, Serials Scene, has been defunct for a year. I wonder if there is anyone else with a serials focus in the library blogsphere? If not, I’d be interested [...]

Chronicle Careers, from The Chronicle of Higher Education
OK, this is definitely a first, at least, for me. I just noticed a job ad in the Chronicle of Higher Education for a job title of “Associate Director for Content Management” for The University of Alabama at Birmingham Lister Hill Library. Huh? This is [...]

Anyone ever heard of Pingu? Michele’s mom bought our kids a video and it is one of the weirdest children’s videos I’ve ever seen. Tristan loves it; Brinley refuses to watch it. She covers her face with her hands and says “Scary!”
Any new movies that I see are invariably for the kids.

We just got back from our trip to the neurologist in Carmel (a northern suburb of Indianapolis). It was quite an “adventure.” We left the house in plenty of time but with an almost empty tank of gas and no real clue as to the exact location of the doctor’s office. The [...]

In the hurly burly of this past weekend, I overlooked the fact that Friday marked the three year anniversary of my blogging efforts. My first blog entry was made on April 15, 2002.