My big news is that I will shortly begin a new job. Yesterday I accepted a job offer from one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, to manage their library’s systems as well as their technical services operation. I am really excited about this opportunity. I’ve worked for two large, academic [...]

Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: Library Schools Must Teach E-Resource Management (& What Else?)
I couldn’t agree more with the need for library schools to integrate a course on e-resource management into their curriculum. Furthermore, I think it should be a required course. The course I teach at the University of Illinois at [...]

This past summer I taught LIS578: Technical Services Functions as part of the LEEP (distance education) curriculum at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at UIUC. I was contacted today to ask if I’d be willing to teach the same course again next summer because students are already requesting it. [...]

Yesterday I was able to go to UIUC GSLIS at the invitation of Kathie and Bill Henderson to speak to their Technical Services Functions class. (This is the same class that I teach in online form in UIUC GSLIS’s LEEP curriculum.) They’ve invited me every year for the past 14 years. Each [...]

I have a lot of guilt and I’m not even Catholic…One of the things I feel guilty about is not posting more often and more regularly on this blog. It’s not for lack of things to write about, that’s for sure. I am just trying to catch my breath most days. There [...]

The week before last I made what has now become an annual tradition for the past twelve years or so: a trip back to my alma mater, UIUC GSLIS (the best graduate library school in the country!), to speak to the Hendersons’ Technical Services Functions class. As always, I thoroughly enjoyed talking [...]

Just finished webifying a preprint version of an article I wrote for the summer 2004 issue of Serials Review . It’s entitled “Which Route Do I Take? A Viewpoint on Locally-Developed vs. Commercially Available Journal Management Solutions” and I hope it’ll garner at least a bit of interest in terms of the [...]