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 have enjoyed reading about presentations at the recent ALA annual conference. Of particular note for me are Owen Stephens’ extensive notes, available here. The ability for those who aren’t present at conferences to quickly catch up on essentials of what was discussed is, to me, hugely important and beneficial. I’m thankful for [...]

Mark Lindner kindly pointed out to me today that some people may not know where the poll is that I mentioned in a post a few days ago. This is because if you read this post — like most people — via an RSS aggregator and go to the single post page on FML, [...]

In an effort to try something new (polling) as well as to get some feedback on aspects of this blog, I loaded up the excellent WP-Polls plugin tonight and created an initial poll. The question I’m asking from now (Tuesday, April 22) through next Monday (April 28) is the following:
What motivates you to comment [...]

I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to site statistics for FML and one of the reasons for that is that I am not really a numbers-and-math kind of person. Plus FML is such small potatoes and it is not ad-supported in any way that I don’t feel compelled to knuckle down and [...]

Just a quick note to acknowledge an important milestone for FML: today marks the sixth year that this blog has been in existence. To be fair, it really wasn’t a blog at first in the sense we now take for granted. There weren’t many readily available blogging platforms that I knew about [...]

I continue to check UKSG’s LiveSerials blog for updates during today’s opening sessions. I found some of the reporting to be “interesting” e.g. this post from the opening address:
Char Simser, President of NASIG, is greeting us from our sister organisation in the US. It’s Char’s first trip to the UK and to UKSG. It’s [...]

One of the best conferences in the library world, the UKSG (United Kingdom Serials Group) Conference and Exhibition, is now underway. This year’s conference is being held in Torquay, one of the most beautiful spots in all of the UK. My sister-in-law hails from nearby Barnstaple and I spent some memorable time in [...]

It’s a dark, rainy Monday and the weather matches my mood as I get back into the swing of things at work after a nice but short vacation. I really think I need to be more like Tigger and less like Eyore but it’s hard to fight years of pessimism.
We had a really good [...]

Last Friday a colleague of mine (who also happens to be a fellow UIUC GSLIS alum — GSLIS alums are plentiful where I work!) gave a lunchtime presentation introducing the social web to other colleagues in our library organization. We only had an hour in which to present a broad overview and as a [...]