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chimera of Mackinac Originally uploaded by uBookworm Last week I was up in Seattle for the 2009 Joint Summer Meeting of the Transportation Research Board. Ahh, the life of a transportation librarian. Going to transportation conference relatively close on the heels of a library conference is disorienting. I’m used to talking in library lingo to…

Something has been plaguing me for the past few weeks. Once the post-SLA buzz wore off and reality of routine returned, I began having an existential crisis. Yes, I’ve been struggling with the ultimate question: Do I want to be a librarian? When I voiced this question to my partner, he sort of gave me…

Oh my! I’ve been named one of LSW’s Shovers and Makers for 2009! You can read about it here. If you want to be an S&Mer too, get in the action here. I’m so misty eyed my mascara is running. Oh well, back to indexing transportation reports.

Colleen Harris, aka WarMaiden, has suggest a meme of unofficial librarian biographies where librarians rewrite their bio to be: a brief bio of yourself that you sort of wish you could send out, but you know the official venues really prefer the stuffy, boring version of you – stripped of all personality, dressed up in…

I’ve been in something of a fog recently, which is why this blog is dead. Every time I had and idea for a post, I either wouldn’t have access or time to actually write it. I’ve not got much time now as it is, as I’m flying to Seattle tonight for SLA 2008. I’ll try…