Collecting My Thoughts

I just found out that Trump fired Carla Hayden the Librarian of Congress in May. In her bio she's always called the first woman and firs...

A lot has changed since Trump won in 2016. He knew the deep state was a problem, but only now sees how deep and murky politics really is. He...

17 years ago a fellow library blogger. Walt, referred to me as a "right wing librarian." I responded at my blog (somewhat in shock...

Gary asked, "Where do you get your information?"  He watches only MSNBC and CNN--two channels that pretend to be objective and fai...

September 30 is the feast day of St. Jerome, patron saint of librarians and libraries as well as archivists, translators and encyclopedists....

The entities in our society who've disappointed me the most during the pandemic are the public libraries and the Christian churches—part...

“Since I was 5 years old I've been in the information business, and before that I had a sharp eye and was taking it all in without reali...

St. Jerome is the patron saint of librarians and archivists. "Although St. Jerome has been referred to as the second most voluminous ...

When I saw that Hillary Clinton was leading the charge at the American Library Association conference in Chicago, I wondered what had happe...

I received an e-mail newsletter/update from the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences.  Lots of news about minority recruitm...

There's a Twitter site for librarians who get insulted easily, "LIS Microaggression." Apparently, if you are a white male, n...

Today I found my blog listed in “Evolving Internet Reference Resources,” by William Miller and Rita Pellen, a book which also appeared as ...