I meant to write this almost two months ago, but if you are a regular, Gentle Reader, you know that I’ve been a little busy. I won’t bore you with the list of Big Life Changes again. SO. Anyway, a little over six months in, and I’m declaring LISvendor.info to be a fabulous success. Granted, Read the full post…
(I’m a much better writer than public speaker, so here’s the text of my planned opening remarks delivered during AALL2011 Program H4: The Role of Law Libraries in Advancing Law.gov: Open Sourcing America’s Operating System.) Hi. I’m Sarah. I’m am not supposed to be here today. One of my favorite filmakers is a man named Read the full post…
I love Internet Memes. No, I mean I *REALLY* love Internet Memes. I will pretty much find a way to fit them into any discussion. And why not? There’s one applicable to just about any situation. Plus, there’s some pretty deep lessons to be learned from them if you just give them a chance…. 1. Read the full post…
I have this recurring nightmare that one of these days I’m going to hit submit on a blog post and a tweet that says, “Congratulations, Sarah! You have unlocked the RABBLE ROUSER achievement badge on Legal Information Bonanza!” will be auto generated. I don’t think of myself as a rabble rouser. Or a revolutionary. Or Read the full post…
This is probably a bad idea. I mean that two ways. One, I may very well be the only person interested in doing something like this and people looking at this project will think, “That’s dumb, Glassmeyer. Why’d you waste time setting that up?” Two, there is a great probability that this will cause me Read the full post…
I was telling another one of my correspondents yesterday that I really need to stop poking my face into the Harper Collins boycott debates because, as an academic law librarian, it’s not my fight. But that’s not really true. I’m a librarian. I’m a public library patron. I’m a taxpayer. I have a vested interest Read the full post…
As I was telling one of my correspondents yesterday, it feels like a weird coincidence somehow that the AALL Vendor Colloquium, The Harvard/Berkman Center Digital Library Project planning meeting, and the Harper Collins Boycott debate all happened at the same time. Each one is touching on just a segment of the larger issue, to wit, Read the full post…
