I don’t usually participate in these things, for some reason. I found I couldn’t resist the Springfield Public Library Pool. Especially as I watched more and more get added and once I looked at how they’re built, I was hooked. Four hours later (perhaps this is why I don’t usually participate - [...]

Isn’t it everyone’s greatest wish that someone will look at us, not even look, just glance, and see our potential? To be judged, not by what we’ve achieved, but what we might achieve. It would be a blessing in any of life’s facets and I was fortunate to run across it, professionally, in [...]

I live in the bottom quarter of an old house. The living room overlooks the street with a bay window and then rest of the unit rambles through a couple rooms to the back at the kitchen and bathroom. It’s fair to describe it as long and skinny. Last night as I [...]

As I’ve mentioned I’m very close to earning my MLIS. I’ve just begun my final class, a ’studio class’ taught by David Lankes called Planning and Creating a Digital Library (IST 759). I’m to use the semester to build a portfolio to demonstrate my understanding of a number of facets; among them, wonderfully [...]

I’ve worked as a database manager for a British internet startup company, the director of a rural public library, in circulation in Scarborough, Maine, and currently the web manager at the University of New Hampshire Library I’m enrolled in the Information School distance program at the at Syracuse University. When I [...]