Hi. Thanks so much to everyone who made me feel welcome and dealt with our extension cord search when they were already full of food and working on dessert at the SLA meeting this evening. I had a great time giving the talk and I hope you revisit it to follow the links we didn’t have time to click-click-click through. The talk is here: Doing More with Less, High Tech on a Shoestring. If you scroll all the way to the end of it and click on the “printable” link you can see the notes that I actually (sort of) read from.
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me in NY, Monday May 8
I’ll be on a short trip on Monday to give a talk to the Hudson Valley chapter of the Special Libraries Association about low cost technology. Looks like they’re just breaking in to the blog world and I love their slogan “Making Edgier Easier. We’re IT!” (actually the IT division’s tagline (who has their own blog), thanks for the update folks!)
hi – 04may
Hi. It’s my partner Greg’s birthday today. He is 30. All of the things I manage to do in my life, here, on the road, in my head, I do with his encouragement and rock solid support. If you’re near a camera today, maybe you could drop him a little birthday greeting in Flickr (tag: happybirthdaygreg)? A few other people you might recognize have already done so. Thank you.
my talk from TLA
I’m sitting in a meeting room in Houston Texas listening to Jenny Levine and Michael Stephens talk about wikis and blogs and rss. I just wrapped up my talk, which is online: Revolting Librarians Redux Review. It went well. The next talk (on paranormal romances, no joke) started in ten minutes so I didn’t get to sit around and gab with people like I usually do. Thanks very much to people who came by and said hello, and especially Jeffrey Levy for handling all of my arrangements and being a thorough and capable host/handler.
sometimes the news is all good
I’ve had a hectic weekend preparing for TLA and a few short trips after that. In the next three months my partner is turning 30, graduating from law school, and prepping for and taking the Vermont Bar exam. We are also probably moving. My job ends in September. My partner is looking for work.
But, on the library front here, I just heard from the librarian at the library-without-a-bathroom, Roxbury Free Library. They will be getting DSL this week to use with their Gates Computer. I helped with that. I also had a student last week who brought me flowers for helping him get online and email his elected representative. Every librarian or library worker should be so fortunate to have a note like this gracing their cubicle wall.