Here I am back from another period of apparent disappearance. As I mentioned (albeit briefly), I presented at Internet librarian 2007 in Monterey California back in late October. My talk, Extending your reach, E-Training for an Entire State!, went rather well. We had about 70 people attend, which is rather small, but those who attended seemed very interested. People asked lots of questions, and even kept Kathy Petlewski, my copresenter, and I after for about 45 minutes. Resources from this talk can be found here.

The following week, I presented at the Michigan Library Association Annual Conference. My talk, Bringing Second Life into your First Life, seemed to go pretty well as well. In contrast to IL, our audience of about 70 people filled the room completely, and was considered quite large. Resources from this talk can be found in the same place.

After those two whirlwind weeks, I found myself back in the office at MLC and was ecstatic to be there! I started working on a little project with Ruth, MLC’s Associate Director, making day trips around the state involving MLC. In case you haven’t heard, MLC is starting a Michigan Evergreen project, Partnering with the Grand Rapids Public Library. It was announced on Thursday, that I am to be the Systems Librarian for the project starting on Monday! Yay!!!

In the midst of my excitement, I got a little cold, missed 2 days of work, and discovered I had pneumonia, blech. I’m feeling much better today, nearly like a human being.

My foster dog, Lester, found a really good home. Harry seems to have a lead at a new home, and yesterday, in the midst of feeling awful, I got a new foster dog, Adam. He’s very sweet, but really confused and scared about how he ended up at my house, poor boy.

I start teaching for Wayne State University in January, the same class at last summer, and am teaching a different class in the fall. Good fun.

Anyway, that’s all for now. If I keep this up, I’ll be back around… tax day or something.