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Our family recently experienced one of those things that is stressful in the moment but funny after the fact. No threat to life or reputation, just something you wished you could avoid. As we were discussing
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You Are Too Kind
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I had a lot of fun at the AALL annual meeting in Boston. It’s making me rethink professional conference attendance. Not necessarily not going, but having to be more deliberate to get what I want out…
The Place for Expertise
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I have been reading The Big Con, a book that looks at large consulting organizations and their impact on their clients, especially public ones like government. I’ve long been skeptical about how consulting fits into business…
Lateral Leadership
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I like to think I’m a mid-career law librarian but, if I’m frank, it may be that I’m already at the end of my career based on my position. We have shallow organizational hierarchies and becoming…
The Centrality of RSS
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It is a time that reminds us that information consumption changes. The tools we use, the expectations we have. I think, like perhaps many other people, I had gotten accustomed to the stability of platforms and…
Too Much of a Good Thing
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I’ve been on a bit of a tech jag recently, working through a list of things that needed attention. I was watching usage on my photo site and saw a surprising spike in usage. On the…
The (Lack of) Need for Chrome
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There was a Windows 11 update the other day and, after it restarted, Google Chrome wouldn’t resolve any websites. Burned before, I cleared all of my cookies in the web browser. No luck. It may be…
Shift a Foundation
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Our law library has a supporting foundation—like a friends of the library group—that has a website. Like so many websites, it’s mostly brochureware. They had a change in their board composition last year and lost…
Paved Over Paradise
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I’m a dog person. I can abide cats but one of only two times I was in an emergency room was cat dander related. So I keep at literal arms distance. At the moment, I’m not…
A Closer Look At Securing A New NAS
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It is hard to know whether your family is like other families. We all make different choices. Due to my technology curiosity, our family settled on centrally shared network services. As our kids grew and we…