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Hi. Apparently, due to a screw up by somebody, the very clever “talk” I was to give at ALA didn’t happen. A computer was ordered for the program and didn’t arrive. Suckamo. I’ll save the talk for later and not-so-secretly add this item to the “Reasons Not to Renew Membership After Council Term Expires” list. Hope the rest of you had a lovely time.

Hi. I’m heading to the wedding this weekend instead of ALA and, as with every conference I miss, it seems like this one will be the conference to end all conferences. Next weekend I’ll be hosting an informal drop-in all-weekend BBQ up at my house in Central Vermont. Anyone who is anyplace nearby and would like to stop in and say hello, please consider yourself warmly invited.

Hi. Happy Solstice. Today I took a book-truckload of books over to the local senior residential center as part of a monthly Bookshelf program I’ve been trying to get started. 20-30 books, mostly large print, some books with normal type but lots of pictures [art books, gardening books], delivered monthly on a regular schedule. Books on tape coming soon and we take request. I generally get along pretty well with older people, but it was particularly gratifying to have some smiling older woman come right up to me and say “Hey this is a really neat idea, thanks for doing this.” and then walk off with a book of Krazy Kat comics or a Learn To Use Your Computer book.

Hi. This just in, for those of you going to ALA. Fahrenheit 9/11 will be shown at ALA in the Auditorium at the Convention Center, Sunday night, June 27, at 10 pm, two days after it opens nationwide. There will be a $10 donation that will go to ALA’s efforts in the areas of the First Amendment, Intellectual Freedom, and the struggle against the USA PATRIOT Act.

Hi. I just finished an article for Clamor Magazine about librarian activism and the PATRIOT Act which should be appearing in a few months. I have a few gmail accounts leftover — if anyone in the library community feels they “need” one — and I know at least one other librarian that does as well. AIM me at iamthebestartist today and I’ll hand them out as long as I have any left to give.