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 [...]

Jay Datema posted a good writeup of his notes from the third meeting of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control yesterday. I read it with interest because I wasn’t able to connect to the live webcast the day before. This morning, I read Mark Lindner’s (Off the Mark) reaction to [...]

[Update: I feel obligated to add a bit more to my posting on this topic. See changes/additions in brackets below.]
I haven’t joined the hundreds (thousands?) of others who commented negatively on Michael Gorman’s well-publicized anti-blogging diatribe a few months back[, until now.] I know [just] enough about him and his background to [...]