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The visibility and invisibility of librarians

An article solicited from me and edited by Library Journal's Josh Hadro showed up as today's " Library Link of the Day ." The article itself is based on a panel talk I gave at BCR's 2010 Reference Renaissance, entitled " The Visibility and Invisibility of Librarians ." There are a few comments on it already. I did another version of this that will be coming out in a book of conference proceedings at the end of the year. I love the souped up chart they did from my original one.

Post-election musings

On election night, I came back from rehearsal (for "The Education of Mister Scrooge," by the Front Range Theatre Company ) and checked Douglas County's website. I saw that Amendments 60/61 and Proposition 101 were going down overwhelmingly. Given Douglas County's conservative bent, I figured that was decisive, and went to bed. As it happens, of course, the measures were defeated in every single county in the state by close to 70%. There were lots of reasons for that defeat. Among them was the good work done by many librarians on their own personal time. Aspen Walker, a librarian who happens to work as my assistant, made a major contribution in her Bad3Bad4Libraries effort. The defeat of the measures was good in many ways. Yet I woke up mildly depressed. A few days later, I realized why. I've been involved in three elections in four years (2007 and 2008 for the library, and in opposition to the Bad 3 this year). The first two lost. The success of this one did

National Children's Study

This is about the attempt to do a 20 year study mapping environmental factors to childhood well-being. Ambitious! I serve as chairman of the citizen advisory board. Click here for a link to the project website. There's also a video. That link is here .