I am a new, but enthusiastic, arrival to the concept of open source software. I use Gaim to integrate my many IM/Chat accounts; I’m currently advocating a slow migration away from Windows OSs to Linux products on our servers at work; beginning with the web server so that I can more easily run the [...]

I’ve been accused of talking about myself too muchbut I’ve been so busy, I haven’t been able to develop any good posts. I do have a story, however… if you’ll indulge. Have you ever tried to describe the internet to someone who has never even used a computer? My grandmother, for example, [...]

Intregating new components, projects, attitudes - almost anything - into existing systems can be hard. Whether it’s adjusting to colleague turnover, introducing new technologies, or creating a whole new service within a well-established one. Lakegan Harris in his Digital Archive Proposal to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History hits the nail [...]

Librarians are powerful people. We have skills that no other profession can boast. I’m sure we’ve all had that cringing, face-scrunching, apologetic look when we tell a new person we’re librarians, “Oh, I’m sorry… you’re going to be out of work soon, right?” Or, my favorite: “They still have librarians? That’s [...]