The Very Rich Hours of the Lambrights

We took the girls in for checkups this week. Kaylee is doing well; she weighs in at 14 pounds, 2 ounces and is 2 feet, 1 inch long. This puts her in the 50th percentile for weight and 77th percentile for height. Rayna weighed 25 lbs.pounds and is 2 feet, 11 inches [...]

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Here’s some video I shot the other night of dinnertime with Kaylee and Rayna. I’m doing this as a way of trying out blip.tv, so bear with me if the quality of the video isn’t outstanding. I’m new to all this and didn’t do any editing of any kind on this clip–what you [...]

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Step #3 of the 23 Things on a Stick program is about RSS feeds.  I’ve been using RSS for awhile now to keep up on news and other information.  Presently, I’m tracking 54 feeds in Google Reader; here are the ones I find most useful:
Libraries and Library-Specific Technology

Intelligent Agent Blog
Library Technology Guides automation update
Tennant: Digital [...]

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Today is President’s Day, the day we honor the legacy and contributions of our two greatest Presidents:  George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  Here are a few links to get you started:
Mt. Vernon
Rediscovering George Washington
The Papers of George Washington 
Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library 
Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress 

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I’ve loaded more pictures, including a few of Kaylee, visits to Santa, and shots from Rayna’s second birthday party. I haven’t added tags or descriptions but most of them are self-explanatory. Flickr messed up the order of the files in the photostream a little. Not sure how that happened, I just dumped [...]

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Kaylee had her first solid food today!  It was just a few spoonfuls of rice cereal but it was still a red-letter day for her.  We took plenty of pictures and will get them posted soon.  First, however, we must post our Halloween pictures.
Yes, I know it’s February and Halloween was back in October.  Nonetheless, [...]

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Cross posted to SELCO Librarian
The New York Times recently published an interesting article entitled Pushing Paper Out the Door (free registration required). As you might guess, the article is about people using less paper as digital storage and access becomes more and more common. Among the anecdotal evidence and interviews is an [...]

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We have a new look here at The Lambrights.  After submitting my last post, I found that the old template does not display bullet points correctly.  Those of you who have to read a lot of my writing know that I use bullet points.  A lot.  In fact, I’m kind of shocked that this hasn’t [...]

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Just read John Blyberg’s blog post on Library 2.0 as part of step 2 of the 23 Things on a Stick program. He quotes Sarah Houghton’s (aka the Librarian in Black) definition of Library 2.0:
“Library 2.0 simply means making your library’s space (virtual and physical) more interactive, collaborative, and driven by community needs. Examples [...]

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