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 [...]

While we have a local public library where we now live, it isn’t that great in terms of its collection and physical space, especially its children’s area. Why the library isn’t better, I don’t know, but it isn’t because of lack of a tax base or sufficient funding, or so it seems to me.
It [...]

I have been a little bemused by the many posts and comments on library-related blogs in the past week that mention NASIG. Great exposure, right? Right, except that most of them seem to have focused on one person’s informal writeup of one particular session that discussed the role of columnists in library journals [...]

A lot has been written in other blogs, in conference reports, in articles and elsewhere about the growing technology gap between the “haves” and the “have nots.”  It definitely exists; what is debatable is how rapidly the gap is increasing.  I was interested to note on a TV monitor in my company’s cafeteria a brief [...]

I haven’t mentioned much about this but Michele is sick again with the same condition she had when we lived in Indiana about 1 1/2 years ago. Her symptoms have reappeared in force and most days she isn’t able to do a whole lot. She has to walk around most of the time [...]

The title refers to a much earlier post I wrote when we lived in Indiana. Now that we are back in Illinois and in our new house, I thought I’d write about wildlife sightings we’ve had over the course of the past few weeks.Last week Michele noticed a ground hog (or is it a [...]

CNN.com - Police: Teen admits to highway shootings - Jul 25, 2006
I was pretty surprised to read that a 17 year old from Gaston, Indiana, is the chief suspect in recent sniper shootings on I-69 and I-65. Gaston is only a few miles south of where we used to live and we drove [...]

We have been going through a very difficult and uncertain time regarding purchase of a new house. We were supposed to have closed on the purchase a month ago but couldn’t because of a number of last minute snags with regard to the financing. We didn’t know for sure that we would even [...]

I’m pretty tired out these days. Most of the fault lies with two little kids who continue to think that their real bedroom is their parents’. I am sooooo tired of Brinley and Tristan coming into our room at night and camping out, each and every night. Ironically, Michele seldom is bothered [...]

This was the first week of school for Keegan and also the first week of work at my new (old) job. Good thing it was a short week for both of us! Keegan seems to be fitting into his new routine pretty well. I managed to figure out the train and bus [...]