j's scratchpad

Rumor has it the Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek), housed in a former palace, used to have cats to combat a mouse problem.

Addendum: This Webcast is now in progress. Tune in to hear Carolyn Edds talk about IRE and some great music from the 1980s. I just learned about a test this afternoon (Wednesday, May 26) for the Webcast of a News Division session during the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in about two weeks. The test [...]

Wednesday’s Boston Herald printed an article about the Special Libraries Association News Division awarding their chief librarian, John Cronin, the Joseph F. Kwapil Memorial Award, the SLA News Division’s highest honor.

“A social studies office worker said she was fired this week after administrators discovered provocative posts in her online journal, including threats to fellow workers and superiors.” This messy situation illustrates why it’s a good idea not to name specific people when writing negative and threatening things about them if you’re also advertising your blog [...]

sort of. The problems that have been preventing me from blogging have not been resolved yet, so I will be blogging sporadically during the next few weeks. Consider it a vacation. For those of you who think ahead, which is what I need to be doing now or I’ll get lost, I will try to [...]

and you laugh at me because I run down the stairs with two of the computers from my office, think about it. Disaster plan. Disaster plan. Disaster plan. SERIOUSLY.

A great organization and our annual conference is in Providence this year (in November) — there will be a session on libraries and blogging with some well-known bloggers — Christina, Garrett, and j herself. Hope you can make it….

Why yoga of course! I’ve never listened to the audio or video clips on this site but I can tell you that George Bush can do a mean Virabhadrasna III…. I don’t think Nancy Pearl, the Librarian Action Figure, is quite this agile.

Pete is 59 today. I’ve been listening to the new Who compilation, Then and Now, and I can’t get Magic Bus out of my head. Too much, Magic Bus! by k

I know that j is very fond of the Nancy Pearl Librarian Action Figure so I couldn’t resist this. Thank you Vernica for blogging this first.