I am glad to be at home today. We are snow bound here in the far northern Chicago suburbs! As everone knows, yesterday was a big day in the electoral process here in the U.S. I was happy to see that McCain and Huckabee fared well but disappointed that Hillary Clinton wasn’t KO’d by [...]

Chicago is a beautiful city and the following photo shows it.  Yesterday we were at the lakefront to visit the Shedd Aquarium for the first time since March.  It was a beautiful day, sunny and warm but not too warm.  Lots of people were out and about enjoying the day, including lots of people out [...]

These are my links for April 6th through April 16th:

LIBRA: LIBrary Reports and Announcements - An occasional PDF publication of The University of Chicago Library. I like to read this whenever a new issue is published because it helps me keep informed about what’s happening at Chicago, a place where I worked for several [...]

The latest issue (Spring 2007) of LIBRA: LIBrary Reports and Announcements, is now available. LIBRA is a publication of The University of Chicago Library. I like to read each issue because that helps me keep informed about what’s going on at the place where I spent my formative years as a librarian. [...]

I was excited to read the news last night that Chicago was picked over Los Angeles as the site nominated by the U.S. for the 2016 Olympics. How cool would it be to live near the Olympics, if Chicago happens to win the international bid? I think Chicago is a great choice (prejudice [...]

I was surprised to see the announcement, published earlier this afternoon, that Endeavor and Ex Libris would merge under the ownership of Francisco Partners, a private equity fund with a focus on technology. In fact, I am still going through all of the ramifications of this news and haven’t quite figured out what it [...]

The capacity for evil in this world continually astounds me. The violence against innocent girls in an Amish country school yesterday haunts me, as does the killing of a girl in a school in Colorado and the murder of a school principal in rural Wisconsin. Another incident that I can’t get out of [...]

There are so many balls that I have figuratively dropped these past several weeks, it’s disgusting. I am trying to make up for it or just get over it with not much success.
Here’s to new beginnings, then. My oldest nephew, Nils, married his fiance, Emily, this past Saturday. (Some photos of the [...]

I recently read a final report from the task force on the university library at The University of Chicago, written by Andrew Abbott, a professor of sociology there. It is fascinating reading and I hope it will receive widespread attention because it touches upon many issues that large academic and research libraries are facing. [...]

I’ve long been fascinated with passenger jets and the whole flying experience, so it was with keen interest that I’ve read as much as possible about the decades-long knock-’em-drag-out fight between Airbus and Boeing over who will truly dominate the skies. I have to admit to being partial to Boeing. Sort of like [...]