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I see there was a presentation on medical blogging at the Medical Humanities Conference, on 4 and 5 September at King's College London, building blogs in medicine by Giskin Day and Alexander Hamilton, authors of this medical humanities blog, which appears to be Imperial-based. I can't see that the presentation is available online though.
I'm honoured to see that this blog is mentioned in this month's Library and Information Update (though not in the sections available online) in Edward Dudley's Clip Board column. Edward's' theme is how librarians talk to one another.
Elsewhere, Chris Armstrong's intervention in the debate on public library supply is attracting attention. I've been out of circulation for a while, so missed Richard Charkin of Macmillan's speech to the National Acquisitions Group, in which he seems to swallow the Tim Coates line in toto, to wit that public libraries are filled to bursting with overpaid managers who spend the book fund on expense account lunches.
I was going to stand in the elections for CILIP Council this autumn, but had to withdraw my candidature, but if I were standing, a major part of my platform would be to help to build an organisation that can make forthright, public, convincing rebuttals of Coates and Charkin. Once there was a Triple Alliance of the old Library Association, the Library Campaign and the trade unions that organise library and information workers. We need that alliance again.
My mother, Sheila Ann Roper, née Tillard, known to most as Nancy, died last night in Addenbrooke's hospital after a stroke eighteen days ago.
As it happened I couldn't have gone anyway, even if an employer had been fool enough to send me,. but EAHIL's conference in Cluj, Romania, sounds as if it was very successful. Oliver Obst presented on blogs and was kind enough to mention this one. There was a collaborative conference blog at: http://eahil2006.blogspot.com/ and Flickr photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/eahil2006/
I'm afraid family illness means I may not be as regular in my posts as usual.
I understand from gapingvoid that if you blog about Stormhoek wine, the producers send you a case a day for the rest of your life. It's a sensible calculation on their part, for potential recipients' lives will be shortened considerably by liver disease, gout and associated alcohol-related disorders.
So I bought some from Waitrose, and drank it with beef in black bean sauce and some special fried rice. Jolly pleasant it was too. Leave the cases by the garage if I'm out.
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...and I missed him. Blast. http://www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk/events.html
I found this out after the event via Shallowlands, but if even I had had my wits about me, I could not have gone.
He seems to read here fairly frequently, so I suppose the chance will come again.
No decent society would need JobCentres. Every citizen would be usefully employed, applying their skills and knowledge for the benefit of all.
until that day, while there is unemployment they're needed. So I am dismayed that Newhaven JoBCentre, where I have to sign on, is to close. It's not, I'm sorry to say, for lack of business.
It's one thing to be rejected by potential employers; I've become hardened to that. Closing down the JobCentre suggests a level of scorn for the unemployed not seen since the Thatcher years.
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