If you click on the picture in this post, it will take you to the flickr page containing all of the comments and notes placed on this image. Sure, I look like a dork, but when you hover over the image on the flickr page, see how the notes pop up for many of the articles so you can see just what they are. Cool! This has been technically possible for some time, but this is very fast and very, very easy to do here. Feel free to add your notes too.
About the picture: my friend Leslie Dillon has a similar system for printing and posting noteworthy blog or news items in her library. It’s such a great idea! My office is fairly small, so I’m not sure how much traffic it will generate besides my own, but even one or two meaningful articles can provoke a great deal of constructive thought and conversation.
Cynthia Wilson works for PALINET but is also working on a photo book project called “
I Am A Librarian ” that is pretty nifty. You don’t have to fill out the survey to try and get in the book, but you do have to buy it when it gets published. 
You’ve got to love a field full of giant vertical rows of concrete corn. Freaky, cool, nonsensical yet somehow perfectly logical. I think.
Visitng OCLC World Headquarters in Dublin, OH gives me a chance to have a nifty little peek behind the curtain. You get a peek too. From the library to the card catalog card printer you’ll find the photostream via my new Treo 650 here. Have fun!
Don’t think people read your blog? One of my regular blog reads from my friend and former coworker Tracey just got a write up in Business Week. It is a small world, even if you now live in Sweden. btw, her photo blog is beautiful.
Short version:
I have a great new library job.
I’ve moved.
I’ll be blogging more very soon.
Longer version:
Most of you know that since the US Library Program at the Gates Foundation wound down in 2003 I have been biding my time between searching for the next “perfect library job” and teaching and presenting technology lectures on exotic Princess Cruise itineraries. It has been a fascinating time full of innumerable magical once in a lifetime experiences and something that occasionally seemed to be skirting dangerously close to indecision. I have always been looking for that next great library job though. I was hoping for a job that would let me contribute to the profession, continue to teach, travel a bit (but not too much) and support continued professional development while letting me stretch my wings a bit professionally.
As of last month I am happy to report that I believe I’ve found such a job! Last week I moved to southern California to join OCLC Western as their new Training & Support Coordinator. So far, it seems a great fit. I am a bit sad to leave the lovely PNW, but I do hope to return sometime in the not too distant future. For now, I will soak up the year round summer sun and enjoy the benefits of living 45 minutes away from of Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean.
All friends of libraryman.com are welcome to drop me a line (mp*insert at sign* libraryman.com) if you’ll be (or are already in) in the area. One nice thing about the new jobby job is that keeping up with Library Blogland and blogging will be a recognized part of what I do for work. We’ll even be starting an OCLC Western Services blog soon. See, just what I was after!
That?s what I would have said a few months ago if I could have made this post then. Our dear Public Libraries are nearly everywhere! The Fijian President had recently died and his funeral was being held that evening in a soccer field down the street from the Library. The natives were wearing tradition mourning clothes, a black robe with a woven mat wrapped around the torso, for the funeral. Men were also wearing this same mourning outfit as well. The things you learn from travel!
The Public Library in Suva, Fiji
Hours and Friends
Break out your double sided tape. Or not. Perfect for Dewey numbers!
I made this:
and this:
by going here. Now you can too!
Liberty, Librarians, Patriot Act, CIPA.
Straight out of the Casper Star Tribune. Link
Two time Caldecott Medal winner and still popular children?s author Robert McCloskey has passed. You all know him if you read books as a kid and his books still circ like mad in Public Libraries. ?Blueberries for Sal? is full of simply wonderful drawings, Homer Price will crack you up and ?Make Way for Ducklings? well, that is one of the best book titles I have ever seen. If anyone wants to make a tribute site, you can still buy blueberriesforsal.com. Here is a link to his books on Amazon.com and here is a nice bio site.
??Deer Isle, Maine — Robert McCloskey, the writer and illustrator whose classic children’s books — among them “Make Way for Ducklings” and “Blueberries for Sal” — captivated generations of young readers and their parents, died Monday on Deer Isle, Maine. He was 88.??
Link to the full story.
