Solvitur Ambulando
Sun 30 Jul 2006, 10:13 am
I see from a pair of links in the post Why it matters from Dorothea Salo at Caveat Lector that Bess Sadler is blogging at Solvitur Ambulando*
Bess is my wife’s cousin, and while I can’t claim to know her very well, I can say that I’m excited at the prospect of her blogging. She’s a real techie librarian–the kind who posts Java code to her blog–not a poser like me, and she has what sounds like a very cool job: metadata and systems librarian at UVA. Lunch with Bess followed by seeing Lawrence Lessig speak as part of the “Open Accces, Open Minds” panel was the highlight of my 2004 ALA Annual in Orlando.
Let’s hope she keeps up the blog, and continues to weave in human-readable posts (lke Friday’s two excellent posts on women in the open source/systems librarian communities that Dorothea linked to) with the code snippets.
* Caveat Lector (“reader beware”), Solvitur Ambulando (“it is solved by walking”): makes me want to give this blog a nifty Latin title. cf. would be somewhat close to the meaning of the current title. Other possibilities (which are probably ungrammatical): Fiat Libris or Scripta Non Grata
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Hi, Steve! Thanks for the kind words. That lunch at ALA was also a highlight of my conference that year. I’ve been secretly reading your blog for awhile now, and I should have said something earlier. Hey are you going to code4lib? It looks like a great conference, and maybe a good excuse for the family to work in a visit to the east coast. I want to see the kids again!
Comment by bess — July 31, 2006 @ 8:53 am
Hmm, I hadn’t thought about code4lib. I was originally planning to do Internet Librarian again, but I now have a conflict and won’t be doing that. I’ll look into that–it could be a nice stretch for me. And the company would be good. :)
Comment by Steve Lawson — July 31, 2006 @ 1:44 pm
No. No more conferences until the kids are older!
Comment by Shanon — July 31, 2006 @ 3:10 pm
That would be my wife, Shanon, de-lurking to give me a hard time in the comments.
Relax: code4lib isn’t until February. The kids will be much older by then.
Comment by Steve Lawson — July 31, 2006 @ 3:22 pm
I’ve always loved cf., and I use it frequently when annotating my books (many of which were my father’s books and contain similar, though less legible, marginalia). I’ll check on your Latin for you when I get home to said books.
Comment by Laura — August 1, 2006 @ 12:52 pm