Category: Miscellaneous
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Do you see what I see?
I think I might start another blog in which I just complain about the weather we have here so close to the Rockies. My wife thinks I complain too much, but hey, if that’s the only thing to complain about where I live that’s not so bad, is it? I know this isn’t much of…
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How appropriate for the first day of Fall
Here’s what my little weather bug showed me when I first sat down at the computer this AM: It’s comin’ folks!
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Projections of Education Statistics to 2014 (but not distance)
The US Dept of Education recently released their Projections of Education Statistics to 2014 (PDF). Why do these reports always seem to cop out and not address distance education?!? From section 2 – Enrollment in Degree-Granting Institutions: Factors that were not consideredThe enrollment projections do not take into account such factors as the cost of…
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Still no shakes!
Since my return from vacation a week ago I still haven’t gotten through all the backlog in my aggregator. I’ve checked in on most of the feeds, and while I can’t quite let myself just mark them all as read, I’m really pleased (and a little surprised) to find that I’m not suffering symptoms of…
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Gary Roberts – the recovered blog posts
One of the first library blogs I started reading was called The Library IT Blog, and it was written by Gary Roberts at Alfred University. I’ve written about some of Gary’s posts before (and before), and recently posted the story of what became of Gary’s blog. It turns out though that my aggregator had cached…
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SIRSI and Dynix to merge!
Well you’ll have to take my word for it, but about an hour ago this link had a detailed account of a merger between Dynix and SIRSI. Long story short, good news for everyone and nobody will have to change platforms. The company URL will be http://www.sirsidynix.com Obviously this was meant to be announced at…