Giving thanks is something I need to do on a regular basis, not just around the Thanksgiving holiday. Let me start, then, with the following list. I am thankful for:

My family, especially my wife and my children
The knowledge that God loves me in spite of myself
A comfortable house to live in
A good job
Many [...]

I was surprised to see the announcement, published earlier this afternoon, that Endeavor and Ex Libris would merge under the ownership of Francisco Partners, a private equity fund with a focus on technology. In fact, I am still going through all of the ramifications of this news and haven’t quite figured out what it [...]

Last weekend I continued my quest to scan more old photos, especially slides, so that more people, especially family and friends, could see them. I was particularly excited to unearth slides from my very first trip to New Zealand, in 1986. Viewing them brought back so many memories. At that point in [...]

In the past few weeks there were a lot of emails posted to a closed discussion list for customers who use Endeavor’s Voyager system that expressed various degrees of dissatisfaction with the software and the company. The discussion grew out of the need for customers to vote on enhancements for the next major release [...]

For the past few days I’ve been on a quick conference trip to a meeting in the Washington, D.C. area. The meeting was organized by NISO and was entitled “From Discovery to Delivery: Solutions to Put Your Content Where the Users Are.”
While there was nothing new or startlingly different about the content of the [...]