Reaction to Battle in Seattle

So I went and saw Battle in Seattle on Saturday night. I warned my husband that I was probably going to get emotional, and that he just needed to be prepared. As I am pretty passionate/emotional usually, I felt I needed to give him fair warning. But to my surprise, instead of being angry or [...]

Link salad

I generally hate seeing these in my feed reader as I can’t be bothered to go click on a list of links if the author can’t take the time to give me some idea of what I’m going to be finding there (that good ol’ information scent).
But I haven’t been able to post all the [...]

My first conference presentation

So I’ve survived my very first professional conference presentation. I think it went well. When I occassionally looked out into the audience while I was speaking, I saw heads nodding and faces smiling. Good sign.
It was a bit surreal listening to the translator speaking into the microphone at the side of the room while I [...]

Diversity in systems of knowledge

I recommended following this excellent blog about community health and libraries: Bringing Health Information to the Community.
This latest post points to MentorNet, which supports diversity in the science and engineering fields.  I’m also reading an article from the August issue of Information Outlook on Protecting Traditional Cultural Expressions. You must be a member of Special [...]

Guatemala Book Fair declared annual event

This August article from Criticas announces the organizers’ intentions of making the Guatemala book fair an annual event. Unger writes:
Guatemala suffers from the reputation of being “El país de no lectores” (“the country without readers”), so FILGUA set as its objective “Vamos por un país de lectores” (“Let’s become a country of readers”). Still reeling [...]

Hurricane Gustav library links

Here’s a quick roundup of library-related Hurricane Gustav links. Please add yours by commenting on this post.
Louisiana Library Status Blog
Library Director’s Blog: Lafayette (Louisiana) Public Library: Gustav Eve – August 31 – 9pm
ACRL Guest Blog Post: Loyala University Prepares for Hurricane Gustav
Gulf Coast Braces for Potential Category 3 Hurricane
LibraryThing Hurricane Gustav Thread (not quite library [...]