I’m back from Florida, but am probably about to fall asleep since I got up before 3 am to make my flight. I just consider myself lucky to have gotten here with relatively few problems in terms of air travel (though we did have a bird fly onto our plane as we were getting off — d’oh!).<\/p>\n
While I was gone, the Library Journal Movers and Shakers for 2007<\/a> were announced. And my goodness! What an amazing group of people! What surprised me most was that so many friends and acquaintances were on the list! Though I guess I shouldn’t be surprised since I think the world of so many of these people.<\/p>\n Congratulations to everyone honored this year, but special congrats to Casey Bisson<\/a> (whom I hope is not offended that I called him a mad scientist — seriously, I shouldn’t be quoted in anything!), Nicole Engard<\/a>, Helene Blowers<\/a>, Chrystie Hill<\/a>, Michael Casey<\/a> Emily Lynema<\/a>, Janie Hermann<\/a>, Amanda Etches-Johnson<\/a>, Kelly Czarnecki<\/a>, Ross Singer<\/a>, Rachel Bridgewater<\/a>, Katherine O’Clair<\/a> and Brian Matthews<\/a>. You all rock!<\/p>\n I was so touched to be honored by Library Journal for my contributions to the profession last year<\/a>. It really made me feel like I was doing something right and definitely spurred me on to continue freeing the information with things like Five Weeks to a Social Library<\/a>. I hope this will similarly spur all of you on to continue doing great things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m back from Florida, but am probably about to fall asleep since I got up before 3 am to make my flight. I just consider myself lucky to have gotten…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-librarianship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}