BCR Executive Director
Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR), located in Aurora, Colorado, seeks a dynamic and experienced executive director to head the library services network and to investigate, develop and coordinate BCR services to meet the needs of library members.
BCR is located in Aurora, Colorado. The position includes a pleasant working environment, excellent benefit package and is available July 1, 2006. The starting salary is negotiable from $102,000.
More information about BCR, including a complete description of this position, its requirements and how to apply is available at http://www.bcr.org/about/recruiting/.
For full consideration apply by March 27. Finalists will be interviewed in Aurora on May 15th and 16th by members of the BCR Board of Trustees and by BCR staff. EOE.
Last week I posted regarding an e-mail I received that I suspected was a creative new way to word spam. Well, it seems, as I thought I might be, that I was wrong. I’ve since been in further contact with the author of that e-mail (who wishes to remain anonymous) and must say that the original e-mail was not spam but an honest contact. I have since apologized for my skepticism and do so publicly again here.
I was talking with some of the other speakers at Saturday’s Spotlight on Your Career mini-conference when the concept of blogging conference presentations came up. One of the other speakers mentioned that she didn’t like people blogging her presentations. When asked why, she gave the following two reasons:
- Many time her presentations deal with the “latest tips and tricks” on her subject. Having someone transcribe them onto the blog creates an archive of the presentation. Since her presentation is rarely the same twice, she doesn’t want anyone finding outdated information online.
- She felt that if enough bloggers posted the information from the conference this might lead to reduced attendance since potential attendees might feel that since the information will be blogged, there isn’t as much of an incentive to attend the conference.
My inital response was that on the first item, maybe she had a point. She is also an independent so she’s giving these presentations to make money for herself and her business, not just for professional development and some extra cash.
On the second point I’m more hesitant to agree with her. As a conference blogger I feel I’m giving those that couldn’t attend the conference a window on the events I attend. I’m not so sure that anyone has ever said, “Well, since there’ll be bloggers there, I don’t need to attend.” Maybe in the future this will happen but I doubt that it will happen enough to noticeably reduce the number of attendees at a conference.
Anyone else want to chime in on this one and share their opinion?
The Doctor Who page is finally up at SciFi.com. I also saw some commercials during Battlestar Galactica on Friday night. (They were oddly edited however…)
According to this article you can create “a self-contained version of XP — that can fit on, boot from, and run on a modest 256MB USB thumb drive!” Next time I find a cheap one, I’m going to give this a try. If you try it before I do, I’d love to get a report of your results.
Yes, you too can control what Einstein wrote on his chalkboard at Hetemeel.com.
Ever worked in an IT department? Know anyone who does? Just find “computer people” a little bit odd? If you answered yes to any of these questions you need to be watching the Brit-com The IT Crowd. As I understand it, the show is not being broadcast but being shown online in a DRM’d format available only in the UK. However, it seems to be poorly implemented DRM, and so far the first five episodes have been liberated and are available via Bittorrent. (If you don’t know what Bittorrent is, check out the Wikipedia article. My client of choice is Azureus.) This show is just too damn funny to miss!
Looking for a wiki on a particular topic? Check out Qwika which is a “search engine designed specifically to search wikis. Our aims are to cover all sizeable wikis in all sizeable languages, translate them, make them easily findable in the shortest possible time.”
It’s been a while since I’ve been on a plane and I’m surprisingly finding myself missing it a bit. So, I’ve installed the Holding Pattern Screensaver. According to the site, the virtual flight does have a destination though I’m not sure I’m willing to watch it long enough to find out where that is.
Here’s a wonderful note at a school library. Check out the “after” photo to see what someone did to it.
