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 [...]

It is great to have high speed Internet again after being without it for over a week. We are settling in nicely here in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. We all really like this location and we are enjoying the many conveniences such as tons of places to shop for groceries and other [...]

OK, so it is now 2005. Ho hum. One of my unspoken resolutions of the new year is to be more positive In that spirit, here are some nice, happy, positive things to write about:
One of the positive things that’s happened lately comes out of a big negative. We were [...]

After trying several times to figure out what is wrong with our PowerBook and not getting it to work, I couldn’t stand it any longer…I had to know the worst. So today I’m shipping it off to a service called PowerBookResQ to have it diagnosed. They basically ship you a special box via [...]

When I was a kid growing up in east central Illinois, Champaign-Urbana was “the big city” (actually, they are two separate cities). Ever since I can remember, my mother would took us to the public libraries in both cities (Urbana Free Library, and the Champaign Public Library). The current buildings for both libraries [...]

Well, I thought I was off to a good start with this new hobby of mine, buying and selling books. I was wrong. I got really excited when I picked up a very clean 1st ed. of James Michener’s novel, The Caribbean, the other day. Checking on various Internet book sites such [...]

A couple of years ago, I happened to read about a software program called Readerware that was created to enable users to catalog their home collections of books, CDs, videos, and DVDs. Being the library geek that I am, and with my background in cataloging, my interest was immediately piqued. I downloaded a [...]

Some time ago, I read about Grokker, a new type of web search engine that presents results visually in cluster maps (think something like Venn diagrams), rather than in a long series of search results to page through one by one. Put in simple terms, the idea behind Grokker is to enable the searcher [...]

OK, I have to admit to a problem with lust. By lust, I mean this definition in the Oxford English Dictionary (there are several others): “Desire, appetite, relish or inclination for something.” What is the object of my inclination? An Apple Macintosh Powerbook G4 15″ laptop. As with so [...]

Yesterday was an incredibly busy day, as Michele helped to manage a garage sale at our house while I attended commencement as part of Taylor’s faculty in the a.m. and did some work in the garden in the p.m. The garage sale proceeds all go to MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers). Michele is on the leadership [...]