As you may recall there are several events which occur in October. I wrote about one recently. Another is the Mississippi Library Association’s annual conference. It happens every year around mid-month. As the name implies, it is a gathering of librarians from around the state. There are the usual panels and presentations, plus an awards…
Ever since moving down to Mississippi I have lamented the lack of dancing of any sort in the whole state. There is certainly no contra dancing. In fact the only time I’ve seen the word dancing used at all was to refer to a concert which took place during Octoberfest 2013 in Cleveland. However as…
Summers around Cleveland tend to be slow. Teach for America comes in June and leaves about six weeks later. As the corps members are arriving, professors and students are fleeing town. Most of them only get one time a year to go on vacation, do research, and rest. So not much happens between June and…
The trip was work related. For the past year I have been chair of a group made up of users of Delta State’s library management system. We have a conference every year and this time it was held at MSU. All the same it was a great opportunity to visit an institution I’d previously known…
This past week I was at the Mississippi Library Association conference. While my main purpose in going was to present a poster it was nice to see friends both new and old. It was also a chance to revisit a city I’d been to only briefly over Memorial Day weekend 2013. You might remember the…
Flying is so wonderful. Being that Thanksgiving was this week, I traveled back home. Now due to bad weather I’d moved my flight up from Wednesday to Tuesday. You don’t want to know what that cost. But my efforts to have smooth sailing were in vain. The flight was delayed more than five hours, not…