“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, Read the full post…
One of my favorite song lyrics – and, by extension, one of my favorite adages to get me through life - is “You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, well you might find, you get what you need.” The appeal is obvious, especially for someone like me with a pathological Read the full post…
This is the type of blog post I don’t like to write because basically all I’m doing is complaining about something. In my world, complaining is the first step in a multipart process. First you complain, then you look for soluti0ns, then you implement the solutions and finally review the results. Repeat as necessary. Essentially Read the full post…
It’s been just about a year now since my career change and I’ve just recently perfected my “elevator pitch” type answer when people ask me what I do for a living. Ready? Here is it: I work for non-profit organization that produces open legal educational materials and develops technological solutions for legal education and the Read the full post…
Just to cut to the chase, if you’re looking for the slides from my recent Canadian Association of Law Libraries CALL/ACBD talk, they can be found here. I just got back from CALL/ACBD. I had a great time and am scheming for ways to go to it every year. This was actually my second CALL Read the full post…
When I started working for CALI, I swore that this, my personal blog, would not become a series of advertisements for CALI products – I have a blog over on CALI Classcaster to do stuff like that. However, I am making an exception just this once BECAUSE THIS IS IMPORTANT. I have been admittedly in Read the full post…
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…
