I thought it wouldn’t come to this…but I have decided to make the switch from Bloglines to Google Reader as the web-based news aggregator of choice. I have been experiencing too many delays in post updates in Bloglines lately (see a recent post by Walt Crawford on his blog along with the lengthy set of [...]

Like many others I am really intrigued by the recently unveiled WorldCat Identities project (http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/). Just for fun I entered a few family members’ names. For example, works by or about my grandfather, Stanley McCallum, are mentioned here and ones by my brother, Kevin, are shown here. Ok, maybe it’s just a [...]

Here is a video of us singing happy birthday to Cohen. [Be patient; it may take awhile for the video to show up depending on your connection speed.] [qt:/wp-content/uploads/P1030185.MOV 320 256]

We are having lots of snow fall here and I am thankful to be looking at it from inside the house rather than having to go out there and drive around in it. It is appropriate that I am currently reading the three little ones The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder when I put [...]

We were able to watch part of the Grammy’s last night. I normally don’t pay a lot of attention to award shows like this, but last night’s show stood out to me for negative reasons. Make it three negatives: the three women who make up the Dixie Chicks. It would be really difficult for me [...]

I just finished uploading some photos of Cohen’s birthday party, held yesterday evening (the album is at www.familymanlibrarian.com/photos/album/72157594532822151/Cohens_Third_Birthday.html). The overall theme was Superman. I will try to upload a short video clip of us singing Happy Birthday to him later.

This cute little guy is three years old today! I keep thinking, time is flying by too fast…

“Thoughts on the future of e-journal management and access” is the title of a book chapter I wrote and submitted late last year for a book edited by Wayne Jones entitled E-Journal Management and Access. It is the concluding chapter of that work, which will be published sometime this year. My piece will also [...]

Yesterday I made a decision to not teach a graduate course this year. I was asked again to teach Technical Services Functions in UIUC GSLIS’s LEEP program (www.lis.uiuc.edu/leep/), and I was grateful to be asked. But given the situation with Michele, she and I both felt it would be wise to not do [...]

During the last few days I’ve been working on some enhancements to FML. One of them was to upgrade to the latest Wordpress release, and unlike the last time I upgraded, the process went off without a hitch. Another thing I added to FML is better photo features, thanks to a wonderful plugin [...]