Family Man Librarian

[Updated 5/29/2007: I did something unbelievably stupid and deleted the original version of this post accidentally. Here it is again thanks to Google's cache.]
This morning, Walt Crawford made public the fact that he no longer has a job with OCLC. I fail to understand the whys and wherefores here. All I know is, I wish [...]

I just came across an insightful article by Michael Calore of Wired News that describes his attempt to transition away from desktop-based office applications in favor of Google’s web-based applications. Mainly this involved switching from tools like Microsoft Word in favor of Google’s Docs & Spreadsheets web application. See the link at the [...]

A belated note that UKSG has a conference blog open for their annual conference and they are already reporting some good summaries of conference presentations from today’s session (today is the start of the conference). Check it out at http://liveserials.blogspot.com/index.html. I was particularly interested to read the summary of the opening session featuring [...]

The year 1970 is permanently engraved in my memory. Lots of things happened that year that irrevocably changed my family and those things still have an impact on me today.
In July 1970 I had my third birthday.
That same year, my paternal grandfather, Grandpa Oberg, died. I don’t remember him unfortunately, but I have [...]

I thought it wouldn’t come to this…but I have decided to make the switch from Bloglines to Google Reader as the web-based news aggregator of choice. I have been experiencing too many delays in post updates in Bloglines lately (see a recent post by Walt Crawford on his blog along with the lengthy set of [...]

Many people have said that handheld computing is going to be huge; that cell phones or so-called “smart” phones will become increasingly powerful and feature-rich. But I have been much less than impressed with what I have seen thus far. That is, until I read about the iPhone introduced earlier this week by [...]

This past weekend I messed up my entire site (my fault) while trying to upgrade WordPress to the latest release. So in the spirit of making lemonade out of lemons, I decided to revamp the whole thing and bring in the New Year with a different look and feel. The biggest change is [...]

Giving thanks is something I need to do on a regular basis, not just around the Thanksgiving holiday. Let me start, then, with the following list. I am thankful for:

My family, especially my wife and my children
The knowledge that God loves me in spite of myself
A comfortable house to live in
A good job
Many [...]

When I first read the official announcement posted today by Google about their new library catalog search feature, I thought, Hey, good deal! A closer alignment of library holdings with Google Book Search is, in my mind, a very good thing.
Then I went immediately to Google Book Search to try it out, only to [...]

Lots of nice improvements have been made recently in web-related software and services that I regularly use. Here is a list of the ones I can think of that are worth mentioning:

coComment: This service just keeps getting better. Now it allows me to track conversations via webpages or comments on individual postings. [...]