I haven’t written a post in several days, and the reason is that I have been going through a dark period of time during which I cut back in a number of ways to try to get some rest. I just didn’t want to think about this blog or much of anything else. [...]

I’ve really arrived. Family Man Librarian is included in The Blogga Song. Wow. Needless to say, irregardless of my inclusion, I think it’s pretty funny and so do my kids, who insist on watching it over and over. ‘Course they don’t really understand it but who cares if it makes them [...]

In the Yippee!–It’s-About-Time department, comes the news that Google Scholar is now tied into Open WorldCat. Great news! I’m sure this will be all over the biblioblogosphere in no time. This feature allows persons searching Google Scholar to readily determine whether or not a book they find in a citation is held [...]

I’ve praised Google in the past for many of their easy to use, free services. Among these are GMail, Google Talk, Google Maps, Google Earth, and Google Analytics. I especially like the fact that these services, already good to begin with, get better over time. The latest example is embedding Google [...]

Just heard the news today that registration for NASIG 2006 in Denver, Colorado, is now open. A program guide has also been posted. I encourage anyone interested in the intersections between scholarly communication, technology, and serial publications to come to this conference!

Disaffection with the traditional integrated library system (ILS) is widespread these days. Terms that are frequently bandied about to describe them are “monolithic” “inflexible” “expensive” and “unfriendly”, just to name a few. Many librarians increasingly question the level of investment that purchasing and maintaining ILSs requires, particularly in the face of users’ dramatically changed expectations [...]

Recently I was contacted by a student at UIUC GSLIS to whom I’ve been assigned as a mentor for LIS578 (Technical Services Functions). (This is the “traditional” version of the class I will be teaching again this summer via UIUC GSLIS’s distance education curriculum, known as LEEP.) This role of being a mentor [...]

I’ve mentioned before how much I like LibraryThing, one of the best Web 2.0 type services anywhere. Yesterday I decided to use it to begin tracking the books I’ve read recently. I started using the tag ‘read’ and then used the handy blog widget LibraryThing provides to create a feed of those books [...]

Last week a revised, official slate of NASIG candidates was published. This list includes write-in candidates. Voting closes on March 4.
Vice-President/President-elect 1 to be elected (3 year term)
Christie Degener
Jill Emery-Petition Candidate
Char Simser
Secretary 1 to be elected (3 year term)
Kay Johnson
Joyce Tenney
Member at Large-3 to be elected (2 year term)
Rick Anderson-Petition Candidate
June Garner
Sarah George
Peter [...]

This funny situation occured yesterday. Michele tells about it:
“This morning I was checking my email and the kids were upstairs playing together. No loud noises, no crying, no arguing…all is good. A bit later Brinley came downstairs and said that Tristan and Cohen got in and it went round and round. HUH? [...]