Give this a listen and have a few free laughs.

Ugh. I am struggling through yet another sick period. The little ones and I have been battling colds and flu more times than you can shake a stick at. I am worried about my job and the many times I have not been able to be at work.

I have always enjoyed reading Dilbert.  The thing is, the daily comic strip comes a bit too close to reality.  Today’s strip is a case in point.

I’m a big Zotero fan.  Anyone who has access to the Firefox web browser and needs or wants to keep track of bibliographies, websites, and other material used for research should use it instead of the bloated, overly expensive, difficult to use commercial citation managers such as Reference Manager, RefWorks, ProCite, and the like.  Zotero [...]

I was excited to finally get a peek at the University of Chicago Library’s experimental new search interface for their catalog, which they’ve named Lens.  Basically it’s a souped up or customized version of Aquabrowser.  I have only just started to poke through it but visually and functionally, it looks great.  Those who attend Code4Lib [...]

On the way to work this a.m. I decided that I would pull the plug on the majority of the social networks that I’ve participated in.  This includes Facebook, MySpace, and some others including Twitter and LinkedIn.  I’m not going to go into the reasons why except to state that they are many and varied.  [...]

Thanks to a discussion on the oss4lib list, I was made aware of this post by Karl Fogel about the importance of insisting “that bibliographic data be license-free.” His comment is in the context of the recently released draft report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. Karl recommends that [...]

Steven Bell is a fellow librarian whom I’ve never met but whose voice is strong, reasoned, and influential for me.  I think he wrote his best blog post to date when he discussed how he has gotten to his current position in the library world, and points out the hills and valleys that we all [...]

Last night was a bit more exciting than we wanted it to be.  I was hanging curtain toppers in our family room while Brinley and Cohen played.  Suddenly Brinley started crying and when I turned around to see what had happened, she was walking toward me, screaming, and as she opened her mouth, blood started [...]