Off the Mark

Crawford, Walt. Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change. A Cites & Insight Book, 2007.
I read this book last Wednesday - Friday. In many ways it was like curling up with an old friend. I had read versions of some of the chapters and smaller sections in Cites & Insights, perhaps some of the ideas [...]

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Not tagged as far as I know but will play along anyway.
1. Having recently been “syndicated” in 2 places (that I’m aware of) [1][2], I don’t really know how I feel about this.**
[My last name is misspelled at one of them, but that is anything but random.]
2. I need an interview suit.
3. I really dislike [...]

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Now that I have my PowerBook back and somewhat restored I have upgraded my WordPress install.
I have also added a few new things on the sidebar for your (or perhaps my) convenience, including recent comments and a category drop down box. I also added a text box to put various quotes (”Words of Wisdom”) in [...]

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Sunday, 20 May
Harris, Roy. The Language Machine. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Read chap. 4-5, but over 2 separate occasions.
Jacob, Elin K. “Communication and Category Structure: The Communicative Process as a Constraint on the Semantic Representation of Information.” Advances in Classification Research, Vol. 4. Proceedings of the 4th SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, held at [...]

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I was out this evening with assorted friends in assorted places having food and drinks. As some of us were walking from one place to another I realized that I had been divorced at some point this month around 8 years ago.
It actually took me about 2 minutes to figure out that, in fact, it [...]

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So far, here’s what I know I’ve lost thanks to poorly planned and/or non-recent backups before the hard drive crashed:
Firefox - an oil tanker-sized boatload of bookmarks. Some important, many not. Also filled in forms info, etc. All add-ons.
Address book - not exactly huge, but most up-to-date info on friends and family members to include [...]

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I got my PowerBook back from Apple today. Yippee!
Can’t really complain about the turnaround time as I took it in late Monday afternoon to be shipped off.
It’s practically brand new. I got a whole new top case, keyboard, hard drive and hard drive cable. Thus, it literally does feel brand new.
I am in the process [...]

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A couple hours ago I wrote and sent off an email that I found very difficult to write.
This weekend I received an email asking me to sit on a panel at ALA to help discuss a topic of current concern to some. But, unfortunately and for various reasons, I decided early in the year not [...]

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Walt Crawford, that is. Come 1 October he’ll no longer be at OCLC. Therefore, you can have a hand in the answer to that question.
I’ve seen several posts already today about this but Rochelle Hartman’s at Tinfoil + Raccoon is the best, imho.
I’ve known of Walt since early on in my library career–hard to miss, [...]

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Saturday, 12 May [due to early posting last week]
Paglia, Camille. Break, blow, burn. 2005. Read:

Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” [a snippet]
Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson, “Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers”

Tuesday, 15 May
Ward, Jewel. “Unqualified Dublin Core Usage in OAI-PMH Providers.” OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives 20 (1), [...]

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