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It seems I start every posting talking about work and this ocassion is no exception. I wish it didn't seem to rule my life so much! I've spent about five hours the last two days with colleagues butchering our standing orders list. We've cut many titles that are either out of scope or tremendously expensive. The frustrating thing is cutting $30,000 in a few weeks (don't ask why the insane deadline because we can't get a straight answer) and not doing it with all reference librarians to reach departmental consensus. The titles our small group is looking at are reference standing orders. Anyway it's been a learning experience and is a turning point for how my library's administration has handled collection development. Things will get better now that we have numbers to work with. I'm trying to be diplomatic about this in light of looking at the readings for my leadership course. Our main text is Leadership Challenge. Not bad and the theories are interesting. I fly out tomorrow for Tampa for the monthly meeting - joy! At least I will be leaving an hour later compared to last month but it still makes up for a long day.

I have a a slew of books that I'm making little progress in reading. I've started reading Paris 1919 and it's a great book. Plus I've always loved that topic. I've only read a few pages from the New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding by Arnie. Then there's How to be a Canadian, Salt: A World History, Mosquito: The Story of Man's Deadliest Foe, and Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel. The last book I got free at the ALA Summer Conference in Orlando. We walked by a sciene publisher's booth and he was beginning to pack up his stuff and needed to get of things. So he said each of us could pick one book!

I've been so busy that I've had to save this posting as a draft. Since I first began writing, Hurricane Jeanne has finally begun its move west towards Florida and may hit us this weekend. It's a category two with 105 mph winds. Since I'll be out tomorrow and the library is closed Saturday for Yom Kipur I decided to back up my computer. Other news is that Darcy's ring is STILL not ready. The guy said the engraver is behind with four orders including a couple that is getting married very soon. That is unfortunate but we've been waiting siz weeks! It had better be ready September 30 like he said. NHL lockout continues with no end in sight. Luckily I'm not living in Canada as the pain would be felt much more, especially on Saturday nights! That's it for now - I need to wrap things up and head out to my drumming class...

posted by Michael at 7:02 PM