The other day I finally had a look at a site that I knew about for a while but had never visited: The Virtual Museum of Cataloging and Acquisition Artifacts, maintained by a library school professor (I think, at the Univ. of South Carolina). I entered the library profession in 1992 so a [...]

I was excited to find out that some important publications from UIUC GSLIS are now digitized and available in UIUC’s institutional repository, IDEALS. These include:
Allerton Park Institute Proceedings(1954-1997)
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1963-1995)
Occasional Papers (1949-2004)
These are highly important publications in terms of recent library history, and it is great that they are [...]

I was excited to finally get a peek at the University of Chicago Library’s experimental new search interface for their catalog, which they’ve named Lens.  Basically it’s a souped up or customized version of Aquabrowser.  I have only just started to poke through it but visually and functionally, it looks great.  Those who attend Code4Lib [...]

Steven Bell is a fellow librarian whom I’ve never met but whose voice is strong, reasoned, and influential for me.  I think he wrote his best blog post to date when he discussed how he has gotten to his current position in the library world, and points out the hills and valleys that we all [...]

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 [...]

The main reason I was able to go to NASIG this year was that Anne McKee, program officer for the Greater Western Library Alliance (apparently known as GWLA, pronounced “Gwilla”), kindly invited me to participate in a panel discussion about alternative library careers for serialists. I jumped at the chance to present with friends [...]

These are my links for April 6th through April 16th:

LIBRA: LIBrary Reports and Announcements - An occasional PDF publication of The University of Chicago Library. I like to read this whenever a new issue is published because it helps me keep informed about what’s happening at Chicago, a place where I worked for several [...]

The latest issue (Spring 2007) of LIBRA: LIBrary Reports and Announcements, is now available. LIBRA is a publication of The University of Chicago Library. I like to read each issue because that helps me keep informed about what’s going on at the place where I spent my formative years as a librarian. [...]

I was excited to read the news last night that Chicago was picked over Los Angeles as the site nominated by the U.S. for the 2016 Olympics. How cool would it be to live near the Olympics, if Chicago happens to win the international bid? I think Chicago is a great choice (prejudice [...]

I laughed ’til I cried the other day when I read a post on the University of Chicago Library’s feedback blog, Maroon Opinions, that had to do with a complaint about auto-flushing toilets in the Regenstein Library. I really can’t add anything more; you’ll just have to read it yourself.