I gave a presentation on “authority control” in an international environment to Terry Weech’s LIS590IL Global Perspectives in LIS class this morning. Kathryn LaBarre had been invited as a guest speaker in Dr. Weech’s class and she asked me if I’d “freshen up” some of the international bits from my “Free the Authorities!” presentation.

It allowed me to spend a few hours looking a bit further into some things I find interesting and exciting. I mostly talked about various recent and ongoing projects, many of which are European-based. I spent most of yesterday afternoon and evening on it, and got up at 5:30 this AM to put some finishing touches on it. I hope someone found part of it interesting, at least.

Then I went and visited the lawyer again about my stupid deposit check. I’m at the decision point as soon as they return a phone call to him. I may just take what they offer as I don’t think suing them is worth my time for the amount they are “stealing” from me. *sigh*

Now I’m off to take a nap. I got up early and didn’t sleep so well knowing I had a presentation to proof/finish.

Then I hope to get productive and maybe do a little cleaning around here. Maybe it’ll cloud up while I nap and then the sun will come out when it’s time to be productive. For some reason, I feel much better about cleaning when it is nice and sunny and bright naturally in the apartment.

After that it is on to more prepping for leading my 590TR class discussion on Thursday on Boundary Work and Collaboration. That’s the next “big” thing on my schedule. Need to relook the three articles we’ll discuss this week. There are a couple more that we won’t get to until our next class (16 Nov) because we are trying to finish some from last week too. So, I’ll relook the ones for this week and check the notes I already took. Maybe add a little more structure and connections/differences of the articles to my notes.