Call me cranky. Say I am just not willing to write anything positive about this organization. Whatever. I inwardly cheered when I read Tim Spalding’s (LibraryThing) critique of OCLC’s latest report. It is right on target. By way of contrast, Andrew Pace gushes about how “this is our report; we [...]

Scientists Use Google Widget to Improve Image Labeling on Wired Science
The article (linked above) is quite an interesting read.  I found it interesting when I read the words “cataloging” and “metadata” — in Wired Magazine, of all places!
The system developed by scientists at UC San Diego sounds practical and promising but…The reality is that [...]

Recently I participated in a two-day strategy session for my library. We do this every year and it is a time to understand where we are now, what we’ve accomplished in the past year, and what we need to do to prepare for the next several months. It is especially a time when [...]

Meet Champ, our recently adopted, 1 yr. old Golden Retriever. Isn’t he a beauty? We got him for free, believe it or not. He is a pedigreed dog (not that we care a whole lot about that) whose father was a champion hunting dog. Maddie, our tiny Jack Russell, hasn’t forgiven [...]

Something is coming to town…My town…and it’s not Santa. It’s Starbucks. My oh my, what a surprise. We live in a place that is on the outer edges of a large metropolitan area, far enough away from bigger suburbs to be affordable, but not so far away that we miss all of [...]

Yesterday I installed the Answers.com plugin for WordPress. It works very well! Simply double-click on a word or phrase anywhere in a post and a popup window will display, giving you more explanation or a definition via Answers.com. This is helpful not only for technical terminology but also for slang, which I [...]

I just read a report published by the U.S. Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The report is entitled “Depression among Adults Employed Full-Time, by Occupational Category” and I was interested to see that the library profession ranks high on the list (#6). It seems that depression in [...]

We’ve really enjoyed watching Keegan’s football team play over the course of the past several weeks. They have amassed a 6-1 record; pretty good for a sophomore team! This morning was his high school homecoming game. Below are some pictures taken at the game. Look for Keegan in the #72 jersey. [...]

Our little girl turned five years old this week. How time flies!