A short time ago I received word that a friend and librarian colleague, John Fawcett, died earlier today. I’d mentioned him and his family before a few times. His wife and little children really need prayer and support. I know it must have been unimaginably hard to see your husband and father [...]

Few people are as good as Eric Lease Morgan at explaining technical things in a way that is easy for just about anyone to understand. Eric has been at this for a long time and has a rich history of innovative applications for libraries and I like the way that he is so passionate [...]

I just figured out that commenting has been disabled for a long while on FML due to a weird PHP error. I just assumed that since I wasn’t posting on an active basis, noone had any desire to comment! Well, anyway, now that I know about it, I’ve fixed it and commenting should [...]

Michele decided to give Cohen and Tristan what they wanted today: mohawk haircuts. Keegan calls them punk haircuts. Here are photos from the haircutting session. Don’t they look cute?

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Time is going by fast and the start of my course is approaching. I think I’m about ready. This time around there are fourteen people who’ve registered from a variety of locales including Colorado, Alaska, New York, Oregon, the Chicago area, and Champaign-Urbana. As always it’ll be intense, but fun. I [...]

I am so thankful to have friend Sarah Morris as a partner in our upcoming NASIG presentation. She is always on top of things, always upbeat, always prepared. She has done the lion’s share of moving this whole project forward. Sarah was a 2006 NASIG Student Grant winner and like me is [...]

This afternoon after months of volunteer effort NASIG unveiled a completely new website. Go to www.nasig.org and check it out. I think it is a huge improvement and does NASIG proud. Congratulations to those who labored for so long to make this a reality, especially Donnice Cochenour!

I am really annoyed by a longstanding Microsoft Office limitation. In its great wisdom, Microsoft decided to restrict hyperlink entries, e.g. in a Word document, to 255 characters. In this day and age it is routine to have URLs much longer than 255 characters. Get with it Microsoft! And oh by [...]

I’m not sure why this is true but every year around this time life speeds up to hyperspeed and I wonder how on earth I will ever make it through. That’s the main reason why I haven’t posted much lately; I am rather overwhelmed.
One thing I’ve spent time on this weekend is preparing for [...]

Just heard from Wayne Jones that the book to which I contributed a chapter, E-Journals Access and Management, will be published sooner than expected. It’s now due sometime in July as opposed to this fall. Good news!