James Kim and his family have been missing since Saturday. James is an editor at Cnet and appears regularly on a couple of their podcasts with Veronica Belmont. For more information, please read these postings at TWiT, Crave and Engadget. If you have any information as to the Kim family’s whereabouts, please contact the SFPD [...]
I was just cataloging The Secret Life of Houdini by William Kalush and Larry Sloman and I was inrigued by reading this in the 520 field. bq.Draws on newly uncovered archives to reveal Houdini’s secret work as a spy for the United States and England, his post-war efforts to expose the fraudulent activities of spiritualist [...]
Michael Stephens, who I had the please of meeting last year at CIL2005, just announced that he has accepted a tenure-track teaching position at Dominican University’s. This is exciting news for Michael, positive news for the University, and great news for our profession as a whole.
I just spent a few minutes cataloguing Teri Garr’s new autobiography, SpeedBumps. What caught my attention was the 100 field where it read “Garr, Teri, 1952-.” I kind of thought that was unlikely, since I thought she was somewhat older than 15 in Assignment: Earth. A quick bit of checking found that IMDB and Wikipedia [...]
Star Trek was the favorite television show of my early childhood. And Montgomery Scott was probably my favorite character. I can remember sitting in front of the television waiting for another episode of “Star Track” to begin. I got to stand in line for James Doohan at several Star Trek conventions. And even saw him [...]
It seems like only yesterday… bq.Went to my last class this morning. It’s all over but the shouting. – Dorothea Salo
bq.Search-engine wiz and dot-com multimillionaire Brewster Kahle founded the archive here in 1996 with a dream as big as the bridge: He wanted to back up the Internet. There were only 50 million or so URLs back then, so the idea only seemed half-crazy. As the Web ballooned to more than 10 billion pages, the [...]
The most amazing part of yesterday was how quickly I met in person people I had known only virtually for a very long time. I quickly located the table where Steven Cohen and Blake Carver were sitting. That led me to meet those Movers and Shakers, Michael Stephens and Aaron Schmidt. And today someone walked [...]
Even though I have been an ALA member for several years, I haven’t voted for President thus far. Usually because I really didn’t know enough to make an honest evaluation of the choices. But our President-Elect recently went out of his way to distinguish himself. bq.I am all in favor of digitizing books that concentrate [...]
Back in the early days of LibraryPlanet.com as a weblog, there are a whole bunch of entries about Nicholson Baker. He raged against librarians for our belief that all printed word is not some sort of sacred object that must be preserved in perpetuity. But never once did he, to the best of my knowledge, [...]