Fighting through the decline

  • What a headache: Access to standards and guidebooks

    Headache Pills, a photo by sacks08 on Flickr. Let’s talk about headaches (and not the Big Black “Headache” EP.) I get a lot of headaches. Always have done. Not enough coffee. Too much coffee. My glasses. The sun. Whatever. All too frequently confusion about access to publicly funded research and information is a source of…

  • #hardtech slides and notes from #sla2013

    Last week Amy Buckland and presented at SLA2013 about hardcore technology. People keep asking us for the slides and notes, and through the power of GoogleDocs you can have ’em all! (Seriously, we love doing this stuff in GDocs because it’s easy to use from anywhere and even easier to share.) The Slides. The Notes.…

  • Call me what ever you want, but don’t call me late for dinner.

    Laurie Kagann, a photo by Woodridge Public Library on Flickr. Last week was SLA 2013. I was down in San Diego to attend, participate in some stuff, wear a black velvet blazer… you know… typical conference stuff. Lots of thoughts are swirling in my head from it… but the main thing I just want to…

  • See you at the beach! I mean see you at SLA 2013!

    R.L. HUFFSTUTTER 1960, ENSENADA, BAJA, a photo by roberthuffstutter on Flickr. The week before a a conference is always a tense time. This year is no exception. Preparing for SLA 2013 has been a slog. But it’s what I get for: Being chair of the Transportation Division and making sure our meetings are good to…

  • Curate me! Why small is awesome.

    Rough Trade Records W11, a photo by Jamie Barras on Flickr. A while back I mentioned that I prefer small, curated record shops to big, expansive ones. Tara wanted to know why. Well, here you go! This is the store front of the (almost) original Rough Trade. It’s in Kensington and is tiny. I first…