tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42719514105681066412024-02-07T00:59:06.097-08:00refdeskpaulPaul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-61904331594464703292011-08-14T15:09:00.000-07:002011-08-14T15:19:24.677-07:00Retirement<div>Yup. I finally did it. I retired from Rockford Public Library. I began as a library page in 1964, worked at Rockford College Library with David Palmer in 1965 and 1966, went back to Rockford Public Library in 1967, worked at Rock Valley College Library, and went back to Rockford Public. I also worked for Rasmussen College Library briefly while getting my Masters from SLIS.</div>Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-4767038426362447512009-10-25T11:16:00.001-07:002009-10-25T11:18:27.705-07:00Political CorruptionI'm talking about political corruption and graft. I'm talking about greedy people behaving badly, taking advantage of lots and lots of people who trusted them to be fair and honest.<br /><br />We were wrong, folks. We should never have been so trusting.Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-64036948043087933642009-10-25T10:51:00.001-07:002009-10-25T11:14:21.662-07:00What's going to happen now?Honestly, I had nothing to do with it. <br /><br />Sure, no sooner had I received my degree and could call myself a "real" librarian than the library world collapsed in on itself. Rockford Public Library announced that it would cut staff and hours by 25 to 30 % before 2010. Other libraries began slashing jobs and/or hours, mandating furloughs, and closing branch locations.<br /><br />Believe me, it wasn't my fault.<br /><br /><br />I had absolutely nothing to do with the collapse of America's economy. Oh, sure, I did vote for some of those bozos who allowed it to happen, but I trusted in my elected officials to regulate financial markets and pevent unconscionable risk-taking by bankers and investment gurus. I trusted them.<br /><br />And I was wrong.<br /><br />I've never been wrong before. Yeah, I thought I was once, but it was only a mistake.<br /><br />Wrong is wrong is wrong.<br /><br />I'm beating myself up for allowing this to happen. I was so busy with school and having my attention diverted with wars and terrorist attacks and other such trivialities that I neglected to watch what was happening with the money: who was gettin rich by doing what.<br /><br />That was not only a mistake, it was wrong.<br /><br />I wasn't alone. No one else was watching what the thieves were doing, either. No one, that is, except the thieves and their cronies.<br /><br />Because we weren't watching, my colleagues and I were blindsided when libraries began closing and/or curtailing services and/or laying off people.<br /><br />And, when we were told by Rockford Public Library adminitrators that 30 staff would be cut before the end of the year, we were shocked, traumatized, and left with few viable options.Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-51478133703026191812009-09-12T14:05:00.000-07:002009-09-12T14:41:48.834-07:00The end of the world as we know itThings are changing. Things always change, of course; nothing ever remains the same. Everything in the universe is evolving, growing, shrinking, expanding, contracting, moving, becoming. Quiet and stillness--and peace--represents death and an end to becoming.<br /><br />Then why do all religions and most societies consider peace to be the highest good?<br /><br />Peace and quiet are anathema to most human beings and the mortal universe. They are the province of god and god-sayers. We get to partake only after we shed this mortal coil.<br /><br />Though I graduated from UW Madison School of Library and Information Studies program in August and looked forward to a modicum of peace and quiet, that peace and quiet and the much-desired time of rest and relaxation failed to materialize. I should have known. It is, after all, the way of things.<br /><br />You can visit my other blog at <a href="http://pauldaleanderson.blogspot.com/">http://pauldaleanderson.blogspot.com</a> and get an inkling about what has happened with the Google book settlement and its possible impact on libraries, librarians, booksellers (both new and used/antiquarian), publishers, and writers. What I foresee happening is the end of libraries as we know them.<br /><br />Not that it's Google's fault, mind you. It isn't. It's just the way of things.<br /><br />Libraries have had their time in the sun. There is no place for the old library as we knew it in the new world order. Ot's just the way of things that libraries will be replaced with something else that does the same job--maybe not better--but differently.<br /><br />About the time I graduated from library school and became a full-fleddged librarian, Rockford Public Library (where I have worked on-and-off for nearly 45 years) announced that it would lay off 30 full-time-equivalent staff members and significantly reduce hours of operation.<br /><br />Google didn't cause that to happen. Capitalist excesses during the past eight years have led to the demise of many cherished not-for-profit organizations, and libraries may be among them. What Google did do, however, was to mitigate the public outcry when it was announced that library services and staffing could be cut.<br /><br />Many people reasoned thusly: We have Google, so who needs libraries and librarians anymore?<br /><br />This train of thought will be continued in future blogs. Tune in again tomorrow, same bat time, same bat channel (or URL).<br /><br />Change is inevitable. Nothing remains the same forever.Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-29128316655372376702009-06-11T15:43:00.000-07:002009-06-11T16:03:40.057-07:00More on Butcher and Dresden FilesIf you haven't yet read Jim Butcher's Dresden Files novels, I heartily recommend them to you. He is an excellent writer who crosses genres between various pulp fiction traditions: hardboiled PI, mystery, science fiction, horror, fantasy (both dark and high; Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft would both be proud), and advenure. It's pure escapist reading, and it's lots of fun!<br /><br />Harry Dresden is a wizard, sort of a grown-up Harry Potter. Harry Dresden has a dark side that's violent and smashes things and more than a little mysterious, but he also has a weakness for maidens in distress and for doing the right thing. He may be tempted, but he fights the good fight and we're all grateful when he has small victories. The supporting cast of characters include a female police lieutenant, a fairy godmother, a White Knight, a Chicago crime boss, various and assorted spirits, demons, werewolves, vampires, ghosts, and other creatures that go bump in the night, and a cat named Mister and a dog named Mouse. Mouse isn't any ordinary dog, however. He's a Tibetan Temple Dog, specially bred to guard temples against demons. There's also an intrepid girl reporter who gets in as much trouble as Lois Lane.<br /><br />Like I said, it's lots of fun!Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-19731038720568923922009-06-11T15:29:00.000-07:002009-06-11T15:40:41.584-07:00Jim Butcher and The Dresden Files NovelsI plan to attend DucKon18, the Science Fiction convention in Naperville, tomorrow and Saturday. Jim Butcher, author of the 11 Dresden Files novels, is the author guest of honor at Ducky. I'm looking forward to meeting Butcher and getting his autograph on a few copies of the books.Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-6078395367098666612009-06-11T14:02:00.000-07:002009-06-11T15:20:38.159-07:00Summer Semester begins on MondayIt was great while it lasted: I actually had three weeks to read fiction of my own choosing.<br /><br />But classes begin on Monday, and I am taking a children's lit class and a digital permissions class and I have lots of non-fiction and tons of K-12 fiction to devour in the next four to six weeks.<br /><br />Actually, I'm excited about my new classes. Both are topics near and dear to my heart, and I can't wait to get started. I love learning new things, and I love adding those new things to the accumulated knowledge that is the sum total of my consciousness.<br /><br />I'm also excited about attending my first ALA conference. Believe it or not, I've never been to an annual ALA (not even a mid-winter). I've been to ILA conferences numerous times, and I've even been a guest at the ILA Author's Luncheon. But ALA is different.<br /><br />ILA is like being in middle school. ALA is like being in high school.<br /><br />Golly, gee-whiz! I feel all growed up all of a sudden!<br /><br />I couldn't afford not to take advantage of the student registration fees for ALA. Though Rockford Public Library has no money in this year's budget to send staff to ALA, I can afford the student fees from my own pocket and Chicago is only 90 miles away (about 2 hours driving time each way).Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-56990313863334322942009-04-30T11:13:00.000-07:002009-04-30T11:55:56.560-07:00End of another semester already?As the end of another semester approaches, it seerms like it was just yesterday that I began graduate studies. Has anyone else noticed how fast time seems to fly as we age? When I was a child, I was terribly impatient. I couldn't wait for school years to get over. I couldn't wait to grow up. I couldn't wait to find a job and a spouse and start a family and build a career. Now that I've been there and done all that, it seems like all of life is going by so fast that I can't keep up.<br /> Okay. So when I was in college the first time around (as an undergrad), I had trouble keeping up with everything, too. Only I don't always remember things that way. Memory is a tricky thing, and I usually remember the "good old days" as better than the current times. But that's just faulty memory at work. Now that I'm older (okay, now that I'm <em>really</em> old), I'm more aware of what is going on around me. Life taught me to pay attention to details. And I do pay attention to details. I don't blow off things as unimportant or insignificant the way I did as a teenager or younger adult.<br /> So what has really changed in my perception of time is a growing awareness that there are more details worthy of my attention.<br /> As an experienced researcher and published writer, I'm more aware of how important getting those details right in a paper or article or book can be. I pay attention to those details and someimes lose sleep over them.<br /> I am aware that this semester won't be over until I complete two more research papers and submit them to my professors. I am aware that I only have one more week to get all of those details straight in my mind and down on paper (or commited to pixels). I am acutely aware of the pressure of time as I organize and reorganize the arguments of each paper in my mind. It's exciting--thrilling!--and a little scary.<br /> It's what I love to do.<br /> Facing deadline pressures doesn't get much easier with age, but it does seem so very familiar that it's become almost comforatble. Kind of like an old friend or a favorite book. Almost.<br /> Anyway, it's that time again: the end of the semester when all of what I learned in a class is reflected in a paper--proof positive that I did learn something. I must produce such proof for each of my classes. And the papers are both due at the same time.<br /> It's like possessing a split personality to produce two separate and distinct papers on diverse subjects. Or maybe it's like multi-tasking.<br /> Whatever it's like, it'll be over in another week. Then I can go back to being normal.<br /> Normal, at least, until the summer semester begins in June.<br /> Then the craziness begins all over again.<br /> I have purchased some of my textbooks for summer classes, and I gave Amazon.com $239.00 for one class. I don't know what the texts are or how much they will cost for my other summer class.Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-62523195209085540292009-03-04T11:07:00.000-08:002009-03-04T11:19:24.238-08:00New Semester HappeningsSpring is just around the corner. It is the spring semester at WUM, and the weather outside is <em>finally</em> beginning to look more springlike. The sun is shining, the snow is melting, and the spring equinox is only weeks away (and St Patty's day coming right up).<br /><br />I'm heading off to Arizona for spring break this year: classes in Sedona and Pheonix, and touristy things in Flagstaff, Gallup (NM), and the Grand Canyon. I'll take ten days off from my practicum at Rasmussen to fly out to Phoenix. Then Gretta and I will rent a car and drive all over the state catching the rays of the sun and forgetting all about work and school. We'll culminate our journey with 2 days of hypnosis classes in Sedona that include chronic pain management and hypnotic treatment for PTSD sufferers. Then we return to Phoenix and catch a flight back home in time for Easter.Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-20708003080757226622008-12-23T12:32:00.000-08:002008-12-23T12:56:15.239-08:00Snow DayIn the twenty-some years I've worked in libraries, the libraries I've worked at have closed fewer than half-a-dozen times--until this year. Rockford Public Library has closed twice in the past week! This is unheard of in the annals of RPLdom. There are hundreds of homeless depending on the library being open. There are countless people with questions waiting to find answers. How dare the library close!<br /> But the administration jus announced that the library will close tonight at 5:00 PM due to the blizzard-like conditions.<br /><br />Happy holidays!Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-22389315941325318092008-12-18T11:28:00.000-08:002008-12-18T12:00:47.506-08:00The end of the beginningI've enjoyed reading all of the summations on my colleagues' (classmates') blogs, and I wanted to do something spectacular for refdeskpaul to celebrate the end of the semester. But this is not the end, merely the beginning, for refdeskpaul, and it seems kind of silly to list each of the 23 things and what I learned from each of them during the past 16 weeks. <br />I am, however, so very glad that I have learned the <em>hands-on</em> basics for web 2.0 by actually <em>doing</em> each of the 23 things: I learned the theory of web 2.0 in other classes, but this has been an exceptional learning experience because I have had to <em>actually apply</em> what I have learned. Being a Piagetian constructionist at heart, I firmly believe we learn best by coordinating sequences of neuronal firings in multiple parts of the brain simultaneously--employing motor neurons in hand-eye coordination, exercising verbal (and actual speech) neurons in constructing letters and symbols and words, neurons in the corpus callosum that coordinate the two hemispheres of the brain and allow cross-talk to happen between the left and right brains, etc. That happened in this class because of the "realness" of blogging for each other in real time. We all had to <em>use</em> parts of our brains in new ways. Now that we know how to do all of these things (way more than 23 things), we'll continue to build new learning on top of the base we constructed in this class. So I intend to continue blogging on RefdeskPaul. This is only the beginning....Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-87553932413339177232008-12-15T13:41:00.000-08:002008-12-15T13:44:48.908-08:00Reference Resources WikiI have started a Reference resources Wiki at <a onmousedown="this.href+='t/b/88x31'; this.onmousedown=''; return true;" href="http://referenceresources.wikispaces.com/"><img height="31" alt="Wikispaces" src="http://referenceresources.wikispaces.com/i/b/88x31.gif" width="88" border="0" /></a> . Come and join me at <a href="http://referenceresources.wikispaces.com/">http://referenceresources.wikispaces.com/</a> and join the conversation about full-text reference resources available online.Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-11003576287224187702008-12-14T20:20:00.000-08:002008-12-14T20:46:26.109-08:00Checking all the new places I've visited in this classIn preparation for summing up the 2300+ things I've learned in this class, I went to <a href="http://www.checkusername.com/">http://www.checkusername.com/</a> and entered refdeskpaul. I discovered I've registered this blog or used the blog's username to create accounts at Blogger, Diigo, Flickr, Hellotxt, Livejournal, Myspace, stumbleupon, technorati, tinyurl, tumblr, twitter, vi.sualize.us, Yahoo, and YouTube. But that's not nearly half of the web 2.0 places I've visited or where I've created new accounts because of this class. This has been a super learning experience.<br /><br />Gave you see All My Faves. yet? <a href="http://allmyfaves.com/">http://allmyfaves.com/</a> offers logoized links to all of the web 2.0 sites, including 43 Things. Check them out!Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-50325170319450666752008-12-03T18:42:00.000-08:002008-12-03T18:43:29.107-08:00Digital Media BlogGreat site: <a href="http://spotlight.macfound.org/">http://spotlight.macfound.org/</a>Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-58752515592963379122008-12-01T15:33:00.000-08:002008-12-01T15:36:43.656-08:00Statcounter.comCarrie had an interesting post about viewing visitors who view our blogs, and I took her suggestion to add a stat counter to my blog. Now everyone can see who visits this site!Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-35841958428746330912008-12-01T15:21:00.000-08:002011-08-14T15:19:24.718-07:00Statistics Counter from statcounter.com<div>Carrie introduced us to statcounter today, and I thought it sounded like a great idea.</div>Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-62072881732033593732008-11-28T15:22:00.000-08:002008-11-28T15:24:49.210-08:00PodcastThis is a test, this is only a test!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=10448909">http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=10448909</a>Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-38175246957421406082008-11-28T15:21:00.000-08:002008-11-28T15:22:29.530-08:00http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=10448909Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-23070242141984260902008-11-28T15:08:00.000-08:002008-11-28T15:10:20.646-08:00Created with Google Docs -- Take our BlogSite Survey<iframe src="http://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?key=pwUwxAVUvEHVcr26r4QAObA" width="310" height="1174" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading...</iframe>Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-52651986097229570122008-11-28T14:32:00.000-08:002008-11-28T14:35:48.213-08:002 men with guns kill each other over Toys R Us Toys<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/28/state/n123739S87.DTL&tsp=1">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/28/state/n123739S87.DTL&tsp=1</a><br /><br />It's not safe out there in the malls on Black Friday! It's safer in Mombai or Baghdad or Kabul than it is in Toys R Us.Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-32523583126785703982008-11-28T12:43:00.000-08:002008-11-28T12:55:36.544-08:00Black Friday HorrorI just heard on CNN (over lunch) that a Wal-mart employee was trampled to death this morning by shoppers (good morning, Wal-Mart shoppers!) eager to buy those elusive early-bird bargains (you know, the ones that say "guaranteed five per store, no rainchecks, first come, frist served").<br /><br />This is just another example of a society that extols the virtues of greed (and saving a buck) over all else. Read Mark Rhodes' blog for more on the direction our modern society has erred into:<br /><a href="http://markrhodes.blogspot.com/2008/11/buy-nothing-day.html">http://markrhodes.blogspot.com/2008/11/buy-nothing-day.html</a><br /><br />What would Jesus buy?<br /><br />Didn't He overturn the moneylenders' tables in the Temple? Wasn't there supposed to be a message in that?Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-26134787329765861232008-11-28T12:04:00.000-08:002008-11-28T12:10:44.959-08:00We're everywhere!I just googled (TM) "refdeskpaul" and found links to my blog on all of the other blogs created by students in Charlet's Reference (LIS 635) class at UW Madison. If you linked to this blog as part of the 23 things assignment, you'll find your blog listed in google searches for refdeskpaul. 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Gwen 23(things) skidoo · "thing" no. 15: perspectives about Web 2.0. 3 days ago ...brownbethsblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/thing-7-post-on-anything-technology.html - 83k -Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-61530632760522873732008-11-26T14:47:00.000-08:002008-11-26T14:56:17.868-08:00This book has one of my stories!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMd3bExC6_RJlFJa0y2JQiCIr-OCF8N9YBV4FR-feQHjS7Gh48BS99-NAFDk6q8jH2wvYxhTI66jt-1r0u9f0QKR8DHRm8K6ZwE_Mv3a5RNOoJbADY8UQqpbnbW9zzV7amUTa1E0uIeo/s1600-h/masques+2009.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273103133061006546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 210px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMd3bExC6_RJlFJa0y2JQiCIr-OCF8N9YBV4FR-feQHjS7Gh48BS99-NAFDk6q8jH2wvYxhTI66jt-1r0u9f0QKR8DHRm8K6ZwE_Mv3a5RNOoJbADY8UQqpbnbW9zzV7amUTa1E0uIeo/s320/masques+2009.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKPRSEz7ncZIjrBkwCeBham_I_pzCTymWVVXCP5hnT3Wf8Y4PXpBGH-cORgoG1zAxsI3ta1bM4V1oS1ayHW0p2ohC68plKtCC2uNmpziOuMQVSJKCQnGGHEmMUyIJ0nxici-XIjChPgg/s1600-h/masques+2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273102878050560018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKPRSEz7ncZIjrBkwCeBham_I_pzCTymWVVXCP5hnT3Wf8Y4PXpBGH-cORgoG1zAxsI3ta1bM4V1oS1ayHW0p2ohC68plKtCC2uNmpziOuMQVSJKCQnGGHEmMUyIJ0nxici-XIjChPgg/s320/masques+2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>J. N. Williamson's Masques is a graphic adaptation of the stories that appeared in Williamson's award-winning anthologies. The harcover compilation of the graphic stories will be published in February 2009 (available sometime after January 15). Here is the link to the book on Amazon.com:</div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/J-N-Williamsons-Masques-Mort-Castle/dp/1933160780/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227739598&sr=8-1">http://www.amazon.com/J-N-Williamsons-Masques-Mort-Castle/dp/1933160780/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227739598&sr=8-1</a></div><br /><br /><div></div>Hardcover: 162 pages<br />Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group (January 29, 2009)<br />Language: English<br />ISBN-10: 1933160780<br />ISBN-13: 978-1933160788 </div><div> </div><div><br /><div> </div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div></div>Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-73039669536769358212008-11-26T05:16:00.000-08:002008-11-26T05:21:01.270-08:00Video and sound Welcome to RefDeskPaul<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxxZC4CS5xwp60Ua3dDZ9Tic2WxOqQxKJm6IZy8XzGw6hokUcGLdpcHVmhiksGINT_EDKcPdHOy6PJuHLdw0w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271951410568106641.post-25006942099771119242008-11-24T06:40:00.000-08:002008-11-24T06:42:19.839-08:00Online Library CrashesMy worst fear is to lose all access to information. What happens when we depend entirely on digital access and then the system goes down?<br /><br />Here's an example: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7742390.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7742390.stm</a>Paul Dale Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188578227596785583noreply@blogger.com0