A Wandering Eyre

There have been some great responses to my post yesterday about alternate career paths and paying one’s dues. T. Scott has perhaps my favorite so far. His perspective as a manager makes this conversation very rich. The best section of his post outlines things people can do now to create change or foster patience while [...]

Which makes me wonder why I am bothering to write at all. Like Walt, I have recently discovered that Bloglines is not updating my blog’s feed. I have not been all that wordy lately but I have written a little! Walt says he does not want to switch to Google Reader because they do not [...]

I started a new series over at ALA TechSource today, with apologies to Karen Schneider for stealing sucks for my title. Unsucking Online Education seems to be my mission for the moment, maybe for forever, until it no longer has the suckage of a Dyson, the pet hair version. Enjoy. –Jane, death [to suckage] is [...]

I came across a new blog today, by a systems librarian in Australia, named Carolyn McDonald. Her blog is the Red Dirt Librarian. Her second post is about IT Management models in libraries. Technology must be managed well and, IMHO, with users in mind. I have begun to see a need in many of our [...]

What is personal and what is private in a world where online is everywhere? Today, one of our Five Weeks participants wondered aloud how we keep our personal and professional life separate online. My answer was, you don’t. You can, of course, omit parts of your life online, but once you put any part of [...]

Does anyone know if the rumor about ALSC not allowing Caldecott Committee members to blog their thoughts about the books they review is true? For those not familiar with the 2 billion acronyms ALA throws around (I had no idea what ALSC was…), ALSC stands for Association of Library Service to Children. –Jane, did anyone [...]

ALA TechSource Rcokstars Originally uploaded by Wandering Eyre. We met, lunched, shared ideas, and laughed. Sometimes I look around at the company I Keep and think, “How did I ever fool these people enough to let me in here?” This is the first time we have been all together since I joined the group. We [...]

Michael and Michelle Originally uploaded by Wandering Eyre. The OCLC folks did not disappoint. It was a total crush and absolutely smashing. The crowd is always a bit smaller at Midwinter, but that just means more drinks for the rest of us and boy did we drink. All the usual suspects were to be found [...]

LITA Forum 2005 in San Jose will always stick in my mind because it was on the opening weekend of Serenity (whose anniversary was September 30th, last Saturday, Happy Birthday, BDM). This year, LITA Forum is in Nashville. I will not be going to Nashville because I am going instead to Internet Librarian. I am [...]

I have not seen anyone write about this yet and my library has created quite an interesting conundrum that I am positive is not unique unto us. MPOW has some very nice subject blogs maintained by subject librarians. We put all kinds of useful and interesting things on them. Users can subscribe to their content [...]