On Friday, May 21, I learned U.S. fire killed a member of a television news crew working for Al-Jazeera. Later, I learned his name: Rashid Hamid Wali, known as Abu Nur. My break from computers was going well until then. If I could have easily gotten to a computer, I would have blogged it. If [...]
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 will [...]
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 to [...]
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.