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Monthly Archives: January 2009

New reports from EDUCAUSE and OCLC

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Usually I rely on industry reports to put me to sleep, even those that generate lots of buzz and get described as “essential reading.” But today I’ve seen pointers to a couple reports that look really interesting and – bonus! – they each clock in at under 50 pages.
The first is the 2009 Horizon Report, [...]

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On joining the conversation again

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

I’m not much of a joiner.  I don’t like bandwagons and I am highly suspicious of fanaticism.  I was a late supporter of Obama – excuse me, President Obama! – for this reason: so many people were so into him.  For similar reasons, it took me a while to figure out that I really liked [...]

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A few comments lost :(

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

I got a little over-zealous with my spam management and I think I accidentally unapproved and deleted just a few comments.  If your legitimate comment was zapped, I do apologize. On a related note, I’m not getting notifications of legit comments at the moment, so, although I’m logging in here a lot more, it may [...]

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Tee Hee

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Do you want to see library blog posts about potatoes?  Of course you do!
Why the laughter?  Folks, my posting has been so light I have to Google my Gmail for “wordpress” every time I want to login here, yet somehow I’m not last on the list.

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Something old, something new

Sunday, January 4, 2009

No, it’s not a wedding; it’s a job change.  In December, I became a systems librarian at the Harvard University Library.  Back to academia for me.  I’ll be working with Aleph and Verde for the foreseeable future – either of which could be old or new, depending on your perspective.  I have never supported Aleph [...]

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