What happened to day 2, you ask? Too much craziness! It is not often that your intrepid (okay, semi-intrepid) correspondent runs out of words, but it does happen. After a rich full day of Nancy Pearl, Siva Vaidhyanathan, gobs of incredibly cool bloggers (see subsequent entries on It’s all good for photos), […]
I did make it to the panel on Fostering Civic Engagement this afternoon, put on by the Fostering Civic Engagement MIG (Member Interest Group–love those acronyms), which was excellent. Basically, it was all about how libraries and librarians can do things to encourage participatory democracy [SDS, of course, did not come up with the […]
I’m back in the lobby of the Sheraton, putting my feet up and enjoying the free wi-fi, catching up on some blog reading, and generally basking in the librariany energy all around me.
Everybody and his sister is reporting on “Mining the Long Tail: Libraries, Amazoogle and Infinite Availability,” the OCLC symposium yesterday, which I did […]
My conference experience so far:
I made it to the HHPTF meeting just fine. It might be a bit of a stretch to call it a meeting–it was just me and HHPTF reinstigator John Gehner (a recent graduate of Dominican by way of St. Kate’s up in the Twin Cities). We happily noted that […]
in the lobby of the Sheraton! They also sell tampons in the women’s bathrooms for only a dime, so clearly these are people greatly concerned about services for poor people. . . well, it’s better than other hotels I’ve heard about, where wi-fi used to be free but is no more.
I’ll post the paltry reporting […]
I am up at what my friend, I am afraid to say, refers to as the butt crack of dawn, breakfasting and getting ready to head down for my first day of the conference. Here’s what I’ve got slated:
8 am Homelessness, Hunger, & Poverty Task Force meeting
10 […]
Congressman George Miller (D-California), freedom-fighter, champion of the little guy, and the man whose office found that a Wal-Mart employing 200 people costs taxpayers $420,750/year in public assistance [.pdf], is providing us all with an opportunity to testify about the affordability of education–or lack thereof. Much, much more below, but act quickly–the hearing ends […]
Another book meme entry, this one from the Librarian in Black. Hey, have I mentioned [warning: shameless name-dropping ahead] that Marilynne Robinson was on my thesis committee when I got my last master’s degree? I have yet to read Gilead, but I’m looking forward to it.
In other literary news, the New Yorker is […]
Here are a couple responses to the book meme:
from Ruminations, in Australia (!)
from Caitrin, in Iowa
Send me yours and I’ll post it here.
We’re gearing up for summer reading at my library. Registration starts today; programs start next week. I have yet to try out my homemade silkscreen frame, borrow a portable outdoor fireplace, and find a speaker to talk about collecting comic books, but other than that, I’m set, I think.
It’s also crunch time for […]