To everyone who has sent me an email or made a comment in the last 18 or so hours, I am not ignoring you. I am racing out the door to head to Bloomington/Normal to see my daughter for an hour or so before she heads back to college, and to go to the dentist. [...]
Entries from March 2006
I am not ignoring you
March 29th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Tags: Conversation · My Life · Weblogs
How to lose your tech librarians and Rory Litwin: Some thoughts
March 28th, 2006 · 9 Comments
Last night I wrote a post that started, "Rory Litwin at Library Juice has written a great piece on "Questioning the Techie Mission."" My friend Jenny posted the following comment: "I am not even going to begin commenting on this, but I am wondering what you thought about the "ways to lose your techie librarian" [...]
Tags: Librariana · Web/Tech · Weblogs
Rory on “Questioning the Techie Mission”
March 27th, 2006 · 11 Comments
Rory Litwin at Library Juice has written a great piece on "Questioning the Techie Mission." I have to agree with almost everything he wrote here. I am not one of the younger techie librarians. Heck, I’m not even an older techie librarian (or soon-to-be anyway). I’m older and will soon be a librarian. I am [...]
Tags: Librariana · Web/Tech · Weblogs
ALA, Quit wasting my dues
March 27th, 2006 · 3 Comments
Honestly, I am tired of picking on ALA, but they make it so easy. In the mail today, I received a nice packet of material from ALA. There is a one-page letter from Michael Gorman, a one-page "Brief Summary," and four-page FAQ. All of these materials address the proposed dues increase. I realize that voting [...]
Tags: Librariana
Break’s over
March 26th, 2006 · Comments Off
Well, my "break" is over. I’m still finishing up my book index. Typing it up and differentiating some entries. Got one of my checkbooks balanced after being hosed up for 2 months. I never did quite figure out what the issue was, but I fixed it. Dog sat for about 36 hours this weekend, although [...]
Tags: Education · Film · Librariana · My Life
Meritocracy and education
March 24th, 2006 · Comments Off
A very interesting interview of Lani Guinier on "The Measure of Meritocracy," and how "our educational system has become a copy of the aristocracy it was intended to undo." RP: Can you talk about the Harvard and Michigan studies? LG: Harvard University did a study based on 30 Harvard graduates over a 30-year period. They [...]
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March 24th, 2006 · Comments Off
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Tags: Games
More movies and indexing
March 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off
Been spending a lot of time working on my book index for class. I have about 14 more pages to do tomorrow (out of 88) and then I have to type it up and check it, disambiguate some things, and so on. Since it is such tedious work I have allowed myself to intersperse some [...]
Tags: Education · Librariana · Music · My Life · Web/Tech · Weblogs
Technical Services Job Ads: Changes Since 1995 :: Questions
March 22nd, 2006 · 6 Comments
Deeken, JoAnne and Deborah Thomas. "Technical Services Job Ads: Changes Since 1995." College & Research Libraries 67 (2), March 2006: 136-145. Read in print. I received my copy of CR&L a few days ago and immediately read this article. It is a replication of, and comparison to, similar studies that analyzed job ads from the [...]
Tags: Articles · Librariana
Happy Vernal Equinox
March 21st, 2006 · Comments Off
Greetings from the snowy cornfields of central Illinois! It finally snowed sometime during the night, but nowhere near the predicted levels. it was now fine music the frogs and the boys did in the towering illinois twilight make and into dark in spite a shoulder’s ache a boy’s hunched body loved out of a stalk [...]
