habitually probing generalist

Hi All, The comments on my post, "IM, why?" got so long (thankfully!) that I decided to address the many excellent comments and thinking points in a new post instead of writing a comment longer than the original post. Thanks to this discussion, I can fairly clearly see that I should be IMing, or at [...]

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I just came from an incredible concert film by a master of the art.  If Jonathan Demme never made another concert film except 1984′s Stop Making Sense, he would still be a master of the concert film genre in my book. Thankfully, he has given us Heart of Gold.  The real credit, though, goes to [...]

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Maybe there was no doubt since GSLIS had recommended approval, but I try not to speak for universities, particularly Admissions departments.  That said, this happy boy just received the following email: A decision has been made on the Graduate Petition that was received on 4/13/2006 with the following information: Student Name: Mark Lindner Department: LIBRARY [...]

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Just a few days ago I finally set-up an IM account and had my 1st mini-conversation.  Yes, I am a late-comer.  I posted about it here. Today, I came across a post by Andrea Mercado at LibraryTechtonics, "Learning to read via IM."  All in all, I consider it a good post, in which she talks [...]

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Recently, Michael Golrick at Thoughts From A Library Administrator brought up the possibility of an ALA Blogger Round Table. I actually had the possibility of being the first to post a comment but, since I don’t have a Blogger account, I could not.  [I really am going to have to write that rant about needing [...]

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I took the leap last night.  I finally got a screen name and tried IM.  I had a mini-conversation with Michael Stephens, so I know I did something right.  That said…. <grrrr>  This rant will totally disavow my geekiness score in my previous post, but so be it. I’m really tired of registering with every [...]

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Who knew?  Well, OK, somebody maybe. How I’m a bigger geek than Ranger seems highly questionable though….  Speaking of, found at in the hoosegow.

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You Are 38% Evil A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil. How Evil Are You? found at The Itinerant Librarian

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Friday night I finally got to see Dar Williams live.  It was everything I’d been expecting and more.  She was wonderful musically and far funnier with the between song patter than her live album suggests. I picked up the 3 CDs that I did not already have and was hoping to get her to sign [...]

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Friday I went to St. Louis to visit my friend Dave for his upcoming birthday and to see Dar Williams in concert at the Sheldon Concert Hall. I stopped at Scott Air Force Base on the way down to go to the BX and Commissary.  I bought a few things that are definitely cheaper are [...]

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