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Location: Madison, IN

Vocation: Desperately in need of work

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David Bowie --- Bowie at the Beeb

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Jackson Browne --- Doctor My Eyes

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Duets --- Bruce Paltrow



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Open Stacks
Promoting information access and literacy for all.

Thursday, June 05, 2003

It's official

As of today, Open Stacks has relocated to the following URL: http://openstacks.net/os

Barring further complications, this Blogger blog will no longer be updated.


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Wednesday, June 04, 2003


If you have a second,

please take a gander at my newly redesigned resume and let me know what you think. I'm particularly interested in cross-browser display issues, but welcome comments on content, design and format as well. Thanks.


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Tuesday, June 03, 2003


Library-wide bloggery

Michael Stephens at Tame The Web reports the onset of a pilot blogging program at St. Joseph County Public Library in South Bend, IN. Two of his colleagues already have new blogs underway: Joe Sipocz's Book Blog and Julie Hill's Sights and Sounds Blog. Kudos to Michael for his initiative and well wishes for the project's success.


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Congrats!

I just received an email from a former schoolmate announcing that the UIUC ALA chapter has been selected as the ALA Student Chapter of the Year. Although I wasn't really involved, some of my close friends and colleagues deserve credit for the apparent success. Hopefully, this recognition will inspire some genuine activism within the ranks, instead of the perfunctory fundraising/film screening kind of stuff that keeps me away from student organizations in general. In particular, I'd like to see an advocacy committee that organizes opportunities for lobbying and the like. Still, this is great news for UIUC GSLIS, so I'm pleased.


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LIS SDI

On the advice of Simon, I've signed up for The Informed Librarian Online, a free newsletter dedicated to "Professional Reading for the Information Professional." Quoting Simon: "It's a monthly e-newsletter which provides links to the contents pages of various library and info science journals. It also links to the full-text or abstracts if they are available online." In addition, they provide a list of recently published books of potential LIS interest. Many of the listed journals are of the variety listed daily on Peter Scott's blog, but collated for your convenience.


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Stay-home conference

Steven has done more to expose this blog than anyone on the planet, so I am happy to return the favor. Today, he posts about a completely web-based conference taking place from October 20-24. The Learning Times Library Online Conference 2003 features a variety of interesting presenters (including a keynote from the man himself).

Unfortunately, as an unemployed information professional, these sorts of things are well outside my budget. I'll be lucky to afford a tank of gas to get to my interview. But I digress.

The conference board is still seeking submissions for papers or other deliverables to present virtually. Apparently, a reduced registration fee exists for those with accepted submissions and it's a chance to learn some cool online presentation tools. Definitely worth a look.


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Sunday, June 01, 2003


Update

Just wanted to let everyone know what's been going on and why I haven't been posting lately. As I've mentioned before, I'm trying to move Open Stacks over to LISHost. It has not been as smooth a transition as Blake had predicted, but not for lack of trying. I think we're going to attempt a different approach, but Blake has been busy moving and with other life/work-oriented pursuits. So my blog is in a sort of limbo for the time-being. I might add that all of this effort should be seen as a strong endorsement of Blake's work and LISHost on the whole. He really has put a lot of time into sorting out the endless Movable Type complexities and apparently has learned much in the process. Glad I could help. Stay tuned.


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