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Monthly Archives: November 2005
UIUC GSLIS student wins NASIG Student Grant award
I was quite pleased to read via UIUC GSLIS‘s RSS news feed that a current master’s degree student there, Jenny Benevento, has been chosen to receive one of six NASIG Conference Student Grant awards to attend next year’s NASIG annual … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, family man librarian, nasig, rss, uiuc gslis
Tagged Colorado, Denver, Jenny Benevento
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A stressful week
This has been a stressful week. I have not felt up to writing blog entries for a while. On Wednesday when temperatures plummeted and we had some snow, we discovered that our furnace was broken. We were without heat until … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, brinley, cohen, family man librarian, health, maddie, michele, tristan
Tagged chicago, headaches, Metra station, migraines, pence, physical therapy, USD
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Use of the term ‘card catalog’ by Google
Am I the only one who finds it incredibly irritating to hear or read about Adam Smith of Google Print, constantly refer to their digitization work as building a ‘card catalog’ of books? HELLO! Card catalog, it isn’t. Please do … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, family man librarian, google
Tagged Adam, Adam Smith, copyright law, google, librarian, library technology, online catalog, online catalog systems
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Guys day out with Keegan
Keegan and I are at home by ourselves this weekend because Michele and the younger kids went with her family to her uncle’s funeral. Uncle Donny died last week from an unknown form of cancer. I wish we could have … Continue reading
Posted in apple, chicago, family man librarian, keegan, michele
Tagged Apple store, cancer, chicago, Donny, keegan, Louisiana, North Michigan Avenue, Water Tower
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Interview with LibraryThing creator and thoughts on techie backgrounds
I saw a link to an interview with Tim Spalding, creator of LibraryThing, via Library Stuff. The interview itself is available at Emily Chang’s eHub. LibraryThing continues to be one of my all time favorite sites, even though I haven’t … Continue reading
Posted in academic libraries, family man librarian, librarything
Tagged Emily Chang, librarian, Tim Spalding
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Struggling with massive headaches
I haven’t posted anything in several days. Those (few) people who may be checking this blog regularly may wonder what’s up. Unfortunately I’m having massive headaches with some frequency and they are impairing me in a lot of ways, including … Continue reading