• Library - Life - Ramblings

    a Dear George letter

    Dear John, A dreaded phrase representing the end of a relationship. The realization from one party that what had been built to bind two together was now untenable. There is so much wrapped up in that phrase, a sense of loss, of disappointment, and in some cases, betrayal. Dear George,…

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    Next Chapters: Work

    It has been nearly nine months since the universe decided to shake-up the snow globe of my life. The first couple of months at my new job, it was a rare day that I didn’t cry at the unexpected change. My bosses understood, and I am grateful for their patience…

  • Goals - Library - Life - Ramblings

    Does this mean I get a new car?

    I have entertained at least a half dozen ways to write this post. Here is where I’m at today, now that I’ve sat down to actually write it. The Scenario I’ve been Manager of the Institutional Repository(IR)1 in practice since 2012, officially 2014. It was part of our Digital Production…

  • Library - Ramblings

    1924 Copyright restrictions expire

    The US signed on with the Berne Convention1 for copyright, and enacted changes to its copyright law in 1978. Under the new laws, copyright no longer required to be registered, nor even denoted in the work itself. A creative work subject to copyright earned those protections upon being recorded to…

  • Goals - Library - Ramblings - Writing

    Self evaluation and review

    I work within the library system at the University of Florida. In effort to increase my professional development for my role there, I have been taking the Supervisory Challenge courses at UF (that is where the values survey that vexed me came from). In addition, I applied, and was accepted…

  • Fiction - Goals - Library - Writing

    Writing To-Do List

    A few weeks ago I was going through containers in my office, and I decided to pull out all of my journals, morning pages and writing notebooks.  When I was done, I was surrounded by no fewer than 40 various sized notebooks, plus another 30 or so “fit in your…