It was nice to see a mention of a forthcoming article I wrote for JERDA in Peter Suber’s Open Access News blog a few days ago. Thanks, Peter!

The year 1970 is permanently engraved in my memory. Lots of things happened that year that irrevocably changed my family and those things still have an impact on me today.
In July 1970 I had my third birthday.
That same year, my paternal grandfather, Grandpa Oberg, died. I don’t remember him unfortunately, but I have [...]

These are my links for February 21st through February 24th:

BiblioCommons - Billed as a soon-to-be-unveiled "social discovery system for libraries," whatever that means.
E-LIS - Eprints for LIS - An open archive for papers, presentations, articles, syllabi, and other writings relating to library and information science.
LibraryFind - Metasearch software. A great example of open source [...]

Just read about divShare via the Mashable! blog. I had never heard of it before but I quickly signed up for a free account and just finished installing their nifty WordPress plugin. So far, so good! This is exactly the kind of service that suits my multimedia file needs.

I laugh every time I see this photo of my brother, Jeff, playing dress-up at my sister, Becky’s, wedding. He reminded me of someone we used to know a long time ago when we still lived in Nebraska.

A few days ago we found out what Michele’s doctor thinks is the cause of all of her neurological symptoms: something known as Chiari malformation (see an article about this condition on Mayoclinic.com, a website I highly recommend). In addition she has symptoms generically described as myoclonus (a label for various kinds of movement [...]

I laughed ’til I cried the other day when I read a post on the University of Chicago Library’s feedback blog, Maroon Opinions, that had to do with a complaint about auto-flushing toilets in the Regenstein Library. I really can’t add anything more; you’ll just have to read it yourself.

These are my links for February 18th through February 19th:

FeedBurner - A service for adding a lot of additional blog bling, for free, including email subscriptions, traffic statistics, and other stuff.
Page2RSS - Creates an RSS feed for any web page so that you can be alerted when a change has been made. Checks each [...]

Here is a photo of me on my third birthday. I got a kick out of comparing it with Cohen’s photos on his third birthday. The birthday cake in this photo was made by my mother in the shape of a Holstein calf.

I haven’t mentioned much about this but Michele is sick again with the same condition she had when we lived in Indiana about 1 1/2 years ago. Her symptoms have reappeared in force and most days she isn’t able to do a whole lot. She has to walk around most of the time [...]