Good news to hear: Today, the NASIG 2008 award winners were announced. Here they are!
Fritz Schwartz Serials Education Scholarship
Alena Jewel Rucker, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Information Science
Marcia Tuttle International Grant
Stephanie Schmitt, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
NASIG Conference Student Grant
···Eugenia Beh, University of Texas at Austin, School of Information
···Barbara Birenbaum, UCLA, Department of [...]

If ever there was a librarian who deserves all of the honors she gets, it is Dr. Linda Smith, Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I was very pleased to read that she received yet another award, this one celebrating her pioneering [...]

I’m not sure where to even begin with this blog post…By that I mean that so much is happening and there is so much that I’ve wanted to comment on here but haven’t done so, such that my brain is scrambled (well, more so than usual).
For example, I continue to be incredibly impressed with Tim [...]

I was pleased to get an email today announcing the winners of various annual awards from NASIG. NASIG generously gives out several different awards, but the highlight for me has always been the award for current Master’s level library and information science students. NASIG gives out several of these each year, and I [...]

I’m thoroughly enjoying conversations with my mentee @ the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science. He is very familiar with Web 2.0 and so naturally we have already begun a dialog about the viability of the library side of this technology trend, known as Library 2.0. I [...]

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. [...]

This a.m. I filled out the rest of the online paperwork necessary to complete my appointment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science (UIUC GSLIS). This appointment involves teaching a course, Technical Services Functions, during the upcoming summer term, in UIUC GSLIS’s online education curriculum, known as [...]

Today is a sad and troubling day because Michele and I heard from my mom that my sister-in-law, Linda, is very sick again and hospitalized for intense pain in her stomach region. She spent two weeks in hospital about four months ago for similar pain and had an operation to clear up intestinal adhesions. Now [...]