Comments on: IL 2006 Wrapup http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2006/10/28/il-2006-wrapup/ A librarian, writer and tech geek reflecting on the profession and the tools we use to serve our patrons Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:59:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Katie Clark http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2006/10/28/il-2006-wrapup/comment-page-1/#comment-114899 Katie Clark Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:26:49 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/10/28/il-2006-wrapup/#comment-114899 Wow. This will teach me to keep up with my bloglines. Thanks for the nice comment about the presentation. Enjoy the ride for as long as it lasts. Of course you deserve it! KC Wow. This will teach me to keep up with my bloglines. Thanks for the nice comment about the presentation.

Enjoy the ride for as long as it lasts. Of course you deserve it!

KC

]]> By: Dorothea http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2006/10/28/il-2006-wrapup/comment-page-1/#comment-114248 Dorothea Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:22:42 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/10/28/il-2006-wrapup/#comment-114248 The thing to do with "undeserved" wealth (and I meant those scare quotes!) is to try to spread it to others. Goodness knows you do plenty of that, Meredith, so I wouldn't worry if I were you. As for living up to putative hype, I think part of the reason you have hype swirling around you is that you're a pleasant person who's easy to work with. Believe me, that counts for a lot! So the way you live up to that is -- just being you. The thing to do with “undeserved” wealth (and I meant those scare quotes!) is to try to spread it to others. Goodness knows you do plenty of that, Meredith, so I wouldn’t worry if I were you.

As for living up to putative hype, I think part of the reason you have hype swirling around you is that you’re a pleasant person who’s easy to work with. Believe me, that counts for a lot! So the way you live up to that is — just being you.

]]> By: walt crawford http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2006/10/28/il-2006-wrapup/comment-page-1/#comment-114214 walt crawford Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:21:17 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/10/28/il-2006-wrapup/#comment-114214 There's a lot to be said for randomness--particularly for those of us who are too shy and withdrawing to be "brash and fearless and make sure the 'right people' notice us.'" If I'd been able to find a Proper Expert to write the "book on MARC" that I knew was needed in the early 1980s, I would probably never have started writing books in librarianship (nobody asked me to back then). If I hadn't been chatting with someone on the ALA exhibit floor in 1984 about the peculiarities of PC price advertising, I would probably have never started writing lots of articles and columns (and might have resisted a colleague's push to apply for LITA Newsletter editor). Heck, if I hadn't started working as a library page at UC Berkeley because anything had to be better than being a busboy, I might never have gotten into library work at all. You have talent and energy. Some of the time, that bears results. And you'll probably find a balance, maybe sooner, maybe later. (Not that balances don't come undone from time to time!) Oh, did I mention that if I hadn't met a certain library school student, at work, in a somewhat random situation, in late 1977 (and asked her out, and married her), none of the writing or speaking or editing or professional activity might have happened? There’s a lot to be said for randomness–particularly for those of us who are too shy and withdrawing to be “brash and fearless and make sure the ‘right people’ notice us.’”

If I’d been able to find a Proper Expert to write the “book on MARC” that I knew was needed in the early 1980s, I would probably never have started writing books in librarianship (nobody asked me to back then). If I hadn’t been chatting with someone on the ALA exhibit floor in 1984 about the peculiarities of PC price advertising, I would probably have never started writing lots of articles and columns (and might have resisted a colleague’s push to apply for LITA Newsletter editor).

Heck, if I hadn’t started working as a library page at UC Berkeley because anything had to be better than being a busboy, I might never have gotten into library work at all.

You have talent and energy. Some of the time, that bears results. And you’ll probably find a balance, maybe sooner, maybe later. (Not that balances don’t come undone from time to time!)

Oh, did I mention that if I hadn’t met a certain library school student, at work, in a somewhat random situation, in late 1977 (and asked her out, and married her), none of the writing or speaking or editing or professional activity might have happened?

]]> By: Helene Blowers http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2006/10/28/il-2006-wrapup/comment-page-1/#comment-114160 Helene Blowers Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:26:31 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/10/28/il-2006-wrapup/#comment-114160 Well said. Funny- I was just saying something similar to my DH this morning :) Well said. Funny- I was just saying something similar to my DH this morning :)

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