If you’re anything like me, you have a hard time with productivity. It’s not that my interests are so fabulously varied or that I’m procrastinating. It’s more that I have an overdeveloped sense of responsibility - leading me to answer every email and IM promptly and appropriately. I am also a social [...]

I have a close friend who’s a reference librarian in a public library. A patron recently asked who Carrie Fisher’s mother is. Well trained and skilled at choosing the most appropriate resource in all situations, he turned to Google. And queried: Carrie Fisher’s mother. While one has come to expect searches [...]

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 - [...]

Mistaking the time, date, and, indeed, month of a dentist appointment this morning, I, instead enjoyed brunch with some close friends, Kate and Alex with whom I spend far too little time. The course of conversation led, as many with me do, to the internet and developments with it. Alex’s website is an [...]

Picture this: a girl up late hunched over her desk in her pjs. Lights are low. House is cold (it’s winter in New Hampshire and, honey, it’s cold outside… but heat costs money). And she pens an empassioned plea - okay, not so empassioned and not really a plea, but marginally clever [...]

Last week I aired my doubts about libraries stepping into the Facebook frey. A marginal (position, not quality) note about the service from our parents’ newsletter :
Facebook.com has become a phenomenon on college campuses nationwide. With self-authored profiles of tens of thousands of students, the site is a repository of personal information and [...]

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 [...]