Family Man Librarian

Michele is feeling much better right now. In fact, she has been feeling well enough that I have been able to be in the office the whole week for the first time in quite a while. That’s the good news. The bad news is that we are not sure yet about what [...]

I’ve been very preoccupied by other matters for several days now (including a trip to see family in east central Illinois) but hope to get back to posting more routinely in the next few days.
One thing I’ve learned in the past few days is the exposure that having a blog can provide, for good or [...]

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 [...]

SI.com - 2005 NCAA Basketball Tournament - Late rally sends Illini past Arizona into Final Four - Saturday March 26, 2005 11:48PM
Having been ill all weekend, I missed some really exciting moments in the NCAA Tournament. I am especially happy that the Illini got into the Final Four. It was simply icing on [...]

Tonight I proved the wonders of technology. I video chatted (is that a word?) with my wife and kids in the Chicago area, then video chatted afterward with my family in east central Illinois. All of this done from the comfort of my own couch at home in Indiana. Made possible by [...]

When I was a kid growing up in east central Illinois, Champaign-Urbana was “the big city” (actually, they are two separate cities). Ever since I can remember, my mother would took us to the public libraries in both cities (Urbana Free Library, and the Champaign Public Library). The current buildings for both libraries [...]

The entry title is a nod to the classic Simon and Garfunkel song…and is meant as a lead-in to an explanation of why there haven’t been many entries in this blog of late. Stuff happens. Mostly, I needed a bit of a break from blogging due to preoccupation with other matters. [...]

We spent part of this weekend travelling to a wedding in Green Bay, Wisconsin. On our way there we stopped at my in-law’s in Illinois. We shopped briefly at a local Target to get some things for the trip, and Brinley fell against the edge of the shopping cart and split open her [...]

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 [...]

We survived the hectic day yesterday — got the perennials planted, the lawn mowed, etc. and then drove up to the western Chicago suburbs to stay with my in-laws in Warrenville, IL. It was a beautiful day and today promises to be the same. On our way there, we passed by lots of garage sales [...]