The silence of the backchannel

I spent yesterday at the annual NEISL conference - it was held at Hotchkiss, a beautiful school in relatively remote Lakeville CT.  As I drove in through the gates, I turned on my phone to retrieve the parking instructions - no signal. Turns out, there was very little coverage anywhere on campus.  While wondering what…

Updates

UPDATE ONE Chris Harris wrote the DDC is Killing our Libraries - and I have to say that I'm in partial agreement with him (did you look at my YALSA and ALLA presentations?)  I used to do a huge DDC unit, but over the years I've decided that all my students need to know is:…

Vaguely insulted

Yesterday, as I was presenting "at" the Alabama Library Association's conference, someone called me at work.  The message was there when I got back, and it was clear that it was a wrong number... ish. The call was from a salesperson, and was for a James Smith.  Yet this salesperson had clearly listened to my…

It’s been an interesting few weeks

Spring Break was, for me, just that: a break.  I traveled, did some work, and mostly just got ready for the sprint to the end of the school year (only seven weeks left, but who's counting?). Today I presented at the Alabama Library Association's conference (thanks to Wendy for inviting me!), which meant updating my…