PIM for Gecks

Now, this should be cause for waking up this wintered blog - two new books on PIM and ones, if I may be honored to mention, that I had the pleasure of proofreading in some ways.

Jones, W. (2008). Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management. Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

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For those of us who cannot attend SIGIR 2006 up in Seattle, we can at least read the position papers and posters of the PIM workshop participants. An impressive community of researchers indeed.
Am looking at the papers describing the flow of information between public and private spaces. We in the library world should start taking […]

Flashed across my news page this morning on my way to reading an op-ed on the preservation of the alligator in Alabama: Sixth Annual New York Times Librarian Awards. I wonder if a cataloger has ever been nominated for this…
Speaking of the South, we’re hosting young people from a rural parish in Louisiana. I’ve never […]

Just got back from putting the second kid through his advising and registration for his freshman year in college. A ritual of life - not quite the initiation rites into adulthood that traditional societies have, but elaborate in its own right nevertheless. Quite a production - all the stuff that universities do these days to […]

New Orleans still bears fresh signs of devastation even nearly a year after Katrina. We hear of a lot of money going in but the ravages of a natural disaster seem to extend much further than flooding, destruction, death, and displacement. See for example these articles from The New York Times: In New Orleans, Money […]

Mary Chapin Carpenter left her home in New Jersey [see correction in comments] at 11am June 23. She arrived at her hotel in New Orleans at 4pm June 24. Her guitar and other instruments did not arrive with her. Twenty nine hours of air travel torture. Yet four hours later, she and her band […]

I imagined today like a well-choreographed movement from one point to the next. Portland to Houston to New Orleans. On to airport shuttle bus to dorm. Rest a bit, shower, catch the bus to the convention center, pick up badge, bag, and stuff. Interviews at 1, 2, 3, & 4 pm. Volunteer at the diversity […]

Just overheard on NPR: ‘Greetings from New Orleans’: Postcards as Art

It was hard to imagine back in September 2005 that ALA would push on to hold its annual conference in New Orleans in June 2006. There was every reason to move the conference somewhere else. But I guess ALA’s faith and careful assessment of the situation proved them right. I’ll be one of about 25,000 […]

I woke up to a serene blanket of snow. The daffodils slightly hang their heads but still a show of yellow on white. I want to capture it but the camera is in Louisiana.
I blog like daffodils that burst between winter and spring then sleep long for the next change of seasons. There’s nothing that […]