Family Man Librarian

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.

I recently read a final report from the task force on the university library at The University of Chicago, written by Andrew Abbott, a professor of sociology there. It is fascinating reading and I hope it will receive widespread attention because it touches upon many issues that large academic and research libraries are facing. [...]

The big news in libraryland this week has been the passing away of Fred Kilgour, founder of OCLC. But the bigger news for me, personally, was finding out that an excellent librarian friend and colleague, Kathy Zar, died recently. Kathy was a librarian at The University of Chicago whose career there spanned close [...]

The other day I ran across a newish blog published and maintained by colleagues at The University of Chicago Library. The blog in question is entitled Maroon Opinions and contains a record of suggestions made by users of the libraries at Chicago. First of all, I think this is a great way to [...]

There are some people who believe that everyone has a double, someone who looks just like him or her. Of course, I’m a skeptic. However, this theory gained a bit of validation for me when I received the latest issue of College & Research Libraries News in the mail yesterday. On the [...]

This article in the Chicago Tribune today was interesting to read, although it didn’t cover any new ground in the debate about employee blogging. Now that I work for a commercial entity again, this is an issue that I am more aware of. As far as I know there is no official blogging [...]

Some time ago I noted here that an acquaintence of mine had snagged an interesting job at ALA as RDA Project Manager. Yesterday I sat down and read more about RDA, which stands for Resource Description and Access. In particular I read through the RDA Prospectus, published by an international group called the [...]