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Connectivity woes

Posted on February 22, 2011February 22, 2011 by Michael Sauers

For the past few weeks I’ve been having problems with the DSL connection in my home. When it works, it generally works great, but the…

Concert Etiquette

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Michael Sauers

An open letter to the jerk who insisted on standing between us and the stage at the Dave Matthews Band concert last week. Yes, people…

Why I’m (usually) early for everything

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Michael Sauers

I’m typically an hour early for everything. When the family asks “when do we need to leave” I typically built in a 45 minute to…

The three things you must have to live in today’s library world

Posted on June 10, 2010June 10, 2010 by Michael Sauers

If you work in a library today you must have the following three things. Otherwise you’re not going to last. (And this is a bare…

But you’re *all* special

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Michael Sauers

Lately a lot of articles and books about generational differences have come across my desk. Boomers, Gen X (me), Millennials. There are similarities, and not…

Small rural libraries and technology

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Michael Sauers

Recently I was speaking with someone about a forthcoming open position which would be dealing with many small rural libraries. The person was saying that…

Of Media Equity & Library Reciprocity

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Michael Sauers

I do believe that this is the first blog post I’ve ever written on request. However David Rothman and I participated in last night’s episode…

Odds & Ends

Posted on December 7, 2007 by Michael Sauers

There’s been a few news items of late that I’ve been thinking about yet somehow can’t bring myself to write long posts about so I’ll…

Google is not the enemy

Posted on October 19, 2007 by Michael Sauers

I’ve heard negative comments about Google before and I’ve not commented on it but I’m in a fightin’ mood today so I’m going to say…

Do we not because we cannot? Would we if we could?

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Michael Sauers

I need to learn to take better notes when I’m thinking about a “larger issue” blog post. The topic of this one has been percolating…

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