L tells me that her company decided to swap out a server this week. Some genius decided this needed to be done at 2pm on Tuesday afternoon. (BCR will be swapping ISPs this week. This is a simple five minute job and we’re still doing it after 5pm on Friday, just in case something goes wrong.) Everything was back up sometime mid Wednesday in essescence killing a full day’s work for at least one employee, the company accountant and head of HR.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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