This beautiful bird is the type of bird we bought today at the Spring show of the Greater Chicago Cage Bird Club held at the DuPage County Fairgrounds. None of us had ever been to one of these shows. We decided to go because Tristan really wanted to get a bird as a [...]

I’ve been thinking for a while now about writing down some of the things I knew or experienced when I was younger in comparison to what my kids experience or will experience.
Here is what I could think of (there are lots more that could be added):
Kiwi fruit — I can remember when we [...]

People say this all the time, but…Man, this summer has gone by fast! I’m not thrilled that it’s August already.  Somehow I’ve never gotten over the feeling that August brought to me when I was still going to school.  Whenever I see those dreaded words — Back to School Sale — plastered all over stores, [...]

This afternoon, Kathryn Wesley, NASIG Newsletter Editor-in-Chief, announced the availability of results of a site selection survey of NASIG members.  Check it out here.
Some initial thoughts:

I am happy to see a lot of interest in having NASIG return to Vancouver as a conference site.  The last time NASIG was in Vancouver was in the mid-1990s [...]

I thought the following article in the Chicago Tribune today provided a nice, easy-to-understand overview of RSS, with a focus on how it can lead you to good deals. I have proven this to be true probably dozens of times. One of the best deals I ever received was via an RSS feed [...]

I’ve finally dipped my toes into a couple of much-hyped social web services: MySpace, and Skype. Actually I’ve had a MySpace account for several months but haven’t really used it because, frankly, I have little use for what seems like a service that recreates the high school cliques experience in an online format. [...]

Only recently have I begun to read the T. Scott blog. It’s well worth the time. A recent posting describes the author’s experience attending his first meeting of the board of the Medical Library Association. In particular I just about cracked up over the following statement he made:
“Volunteer organizations are strange creatures. [...]

I was quite interested to read last night that a group of three nearby public libraries (Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Skokie Public Library and Indian Trails Public Library in Wheeling) have decided to offer a new service to their users that gives them the option to check out library material via their websites and have [...]

This has been a stressful week. I have not felt up to writing blog entries for a while. On Wednesday when temperatures plummeted and we had some snow, we discovered that our furnace was broken. We were without heat until Thursday afternoon, when the repair man was able to replace the heat [...]

Some recent developments and announcements make me think that e-archiving solutions may be the next big thing in the world of information technology and libraries. Certainly, things are heating up in this area. Several weeks ago the National Archives of the U.S. announced a contract with Lockheed Martin to develop a tool known [...]