I am a contributor to another blog, for the Special Library Association’s Information Technology Division. This morning I became aware of a really embarrassing situation: I found out that two personal posts were published to the SLA IT Division’s blog from my contributor account. They were posted accidentally by my two littlest [...]

I took Tristan to the dr. yesterday where we learned that he has mono with a possibility for strep throat as well. He has never been this sick before and it is kind of worrisome and upsetting. He has a high fever all the time and can’t keep anything down. He usually just lies [...]

Yesterday I turned 41 years old. I had a happy birthday this year. For some reason I am usually down in the dumps at this time of year but not this time. We had an enjoyable weekend highlighted by the return of Keegan and Tristan, who were gone all last week on a trip to [...]

One of my work responsibilities is to maintain the Voyager integrated library system from Ex Libris. A new release (7.0) is now available and one of the features that is getting the most publicity is the new web interface to the catalog. It features dramatic architectural and feature improvements from its predecessor, as well as [...]

I was pleased to read about a list of the 25 most modern libraries in the world via LISNews. One of the criteria for selecting these libraries was their architecture and I clicked on several of the links to library homepages hoping for a way to see what the physical environment looked like. I was [...]

I’m lucky to own an iPod Touch but I can’t help longing for an iPhone 3G too The main difference between them, for me, is that the iPhone 3G can truly be an “always on” device in terms of Internet access because of its dual wifi/cell capabilities. The iPod Touch can only [...]

Tonight marks the second-to-last live session I will have with my students in the graduate library course I’m currently teaching. Time has flown by. As always, I learn things during the course that I can hopefully use in future teaching. One lesson I learned long ago is that an online curriculum is [...]

A colleague informed me of the following interesting news from BMJ: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/336/7659/1450.
Basically BMJ will be presenting articles continuously as they become available. At first this sounds ho hum, not a big deal. But then I got to thinking about it and I think this turn of events is significant. One of the [...]

Meet Charlie - what is Enterprise2.0?.
The link above goes to a Slideshare page for a sort of offbeat explanation for Enterprise 2.0. I’m working with a few others on this topic at MPOW and have co-presented three workshops on this topic. In the next few weeks there will be a larger group of [...]