Well, Christmas is over. I’m tired out and so is Michele. We are still in our PJs and it’s almost noon! The kids are playing with their new toys on the living room floor, recovering from late nights, sugar highs, and excessive excitement. I’m listening to some of the songs I [...]

Monday we celebrated Tristan’s 5th birthday. Hard to believe he is five already! Next year he starts school. I hope to post pictures from his birthday party soon. On Sunday afternoon as part of celebrating his birthday, I took Tristan and Brinley to see Chicken Little at a nearby theater. It was [...]

2006-05: Changes to Holdings data fields to accommodate ONIX for Serials in the MARC 21 Holdings Format (Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress)
Just came across an announcement of proposals for changes to MARC that will be discussed by MARBI (Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee) at ALA Midwinter. One proposal, referenced above, is [...]

In an email sent out on December 1, UKSG (the United Kingdom Serials Group) announced that it had completed digitization of all back issues of its journal, Serials, and made them freely available as open access. Click here to access it. This is a very welcome and important example of a library organization “putting [...]

Some time ago I noted here that an acquaintence of mine had snagged an interesting job at ALA as RDA Project Manager. Yesterday I sat down and read more about RDA, which stands for Resource Description and Access. In particular I read through the RDA Prospectus, published by an international group called the [...]

Those who know me well know that I have this “thing” about sharks and shark attacks. I also love New Zealand, where my sister and her family lives. So it should be no surprise that I read about a shark attack on a NZ racing team’s boat with great interest. The name [...]

I recommend reading the summary of the year’s activity in tags as written by Gene Smith at You’re It. Very interesting. It helps to set things in perspective for me. Probably the most compelling piece in this post is a quote from Tim Bray (I wish I had the source of it but [...]

On my way to work this morning, I thought about things to be thankful for. Here are some that came to mind (not in any order):

warm clothes, e.g. scarves, Gore-Tex gloves, down jackets, long underwear
train conductors
bus drivers
public transportation
good health
a job
instant messaging (so I can keep in touch with my wife throughout the day)
email anywhere, [...]

Although there hasn’t been any official announcement of its availability yet, I noticed late last week that a website with preliminary information for the NASIG 2006 conference is now available from NASIG’s website. I’m hoping to go. The conference next year will be in Denver, Colorado.

I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before, but I have been experimenting for a while now with tagging my posts using Technorati tags. I’ve settled on using Flock as my preferred blogging platform, at least in part because of the ease with which I can associate tags and categories with each post. (By the way, [...]