I had an interesting exchange with Casey this morning in which he mentioned his library’s presence on Facebook. This has been a peripheral debate for quite a few months. Obviously, I’ve been quick to embrace social software and its trappings on libraries’ behalf, but I wonder, at times, that the craze around it [...]

In a bald-faced effort to drum up enthusiasm and support for social software I hosted a webinar from

I am blessed with the rockin-est cousin ever. He just sent me an email soliciting my traffic on a new search web site:
I’ve been using Blingo to search the web. It’s just like searching at Google or Yahoo except Blingo gives away prizes, like iPods and PlayStation Portables. Check it out and sign up [...]

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 [...]

I live in a coding netherworld. Given instructions, I can write code. Given code, I can usually happily change it to meet my needs. I understand most languages, intellectually, but I do not speak them. So when I want to do something, know it can be done but don’t know [...]

For a number of months, I’ve been talking to, although she would probably say AT, the director of my favorite public library, Cook Memorial in Tamworth, NH about social software, remote services, and the important opportunity that they have to be forward thinking. Being small makes rural libraries nimble and able to respond to [...]

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 love the Postsecret blog It’s everything that’s great about the social software movement, actually. When I’m lonely, I go and read these postcards and feel less alone - isn’t that what it’s all about, really?

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 [...]

I happened to catch an interesting segment on the WMUL's (Lowell) morning program, The Sunrise Show. It was the assistant director of the Chelmsford (MA) Library, Chris Kupec, being interviewed about book recommendations. I came in in the middle, but listened for at least 15 minutes, so it must have been a lengthy [...]