I’m Back
Posted On Mar 10 2008Follow the footsteps to Hectic Pace at OCLC… [This link was updated to hecticpace.com domain in August 2016, when all content was re-established on the hecticpace.com domain] I’m proud and happy under the OCLC banner. But I would be remiss if I did not thank a few people, including the people who don’t like to be thanked! Thanks American Libraries. You’ve been a great home. Thanks Leonard Kniffel, for talking me into doing this. Thanks Beverly Goldberg, for helping me make sense when I was only making sense to myself. Thanks OCLC, for giving me a new platform from which to …
Forgotten maybe, but not gone
Posted On Jan 25 2008Yes, I am still here. Thanks to so many of you for the virtual cards and letters that have accompanied my transition from NCSU to OCLC. Today marks the end of three full weeks at OCLC. It has flown by. ‘Hectic’ has new meaning for me, as I learn the ropes of a new job, settle into a new home, and try to make things as comfortable as uprooting and replanting can be for a family of four. For those of you who were wondering what would become of my writing, I do have a plan. Some of you may …
Twas the Night Before Migration
Posted On Dec 19 2007Twas the night before migration, when all through ‘brary Not a creature was stirring, not even Homeless Harry. The doors were all locked and the reading room bare, In hopes the IT department soon would be there. The good books were nestled all snug on their carts, They seemed random to those without library smarts. With Starbucks in hand, the IT crew stood tall, The director had retired to sleep through it all. When up at the front desk there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the server room to see what was the matter. Away from my command …