Project COUNTER (http://www.projectcounter.org/) - an initiative for the international standardization of statistical reporting of online resource use - is releasing its first Code of Practice on January 14. The idea is that by promoting adherence to standards, vendors and customers will be able to report and compare use more effectively, and that the data will actually be comparable.

Check this out: Sacramento History Online, a joint project of the Sacramento Public Library, the California State Library, the California State Railroad MuseumLibrary, and the Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center. It's an interactive digital collection of photographs, documents, and ephemera related to transportation in Sacramento between 1850 and 1930, and includes lesson plans, links to related information, and a transportation game.

This website, maintained by Kathleen de la Peña McCook, a professor of library and information science, aims to highlight new "tables" at which librarians should be participating. The role of libraries and librarians in developing community relationships is more crucial now, than ever.
A Librarian at every table: Librarians and community initiatives
http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/a-librarian-at-every-table/
(Thanks to Librarian's Index to the Internet)

Thinking about ways to make web pages more exciting - here's an idea for incorporating a customizable calendar:
HTML Calendar creators on the web: create your calendar, save it, and insert into your web page.
Web Calendar Creator - www.webcalendarcreator.com
HTML Calendar Generator - www.dbhsoftware.com/htmlcg/index.html

Free blog-hosting services:
Blogger.com - http://www.blogger.com/
LiveJournal.com - http://www.livejournal.com/
Grey Matter - http://www.noahgrey.com/greysoft

More info about library blogs:
Libdex - http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers. --Maya Angelou

Found at Quotable Women – An Archive of Memorable Quotes by Women
http://www.wendy.com/women/quotations.html

Went walking along the levee in the fog this morning with my friend Alison. The fog was so thick, we couldn't even see the river, and so wet, water was running off my hair in droplets! Standing under a big tree, we could hear the droplets falling from the leaves, almost like rain. Definitely a morning for sheepskin slippers, hot chocolate, and a good book.

This is the best resource from the list Google found on Small Learning Communities. JFK High School will implement SLCs next school year for all classes, having pioneered the concept with the current Freshman class this year:

New Small Learning Communities: Findings From Recent Literature, by Kathleen Cotton (December 2001, pdf, 73pgs.)

Here is the results list from Google:
Google Search: "small learning communities"

Grassroots KM through blogging
May 14, 2001- Maish Nichani, Venkat Rajamanickam
Relationship of blogging to storytelling: "We are talking of the "storytelling" as the killer strategy, and "blogs" as the killer technology. Both of them share one common ground: grassroots interaction ."

Checking the technical details: removing my name from each post seems logical, since no one else will ever be posting here ...

Thank you, Sacramento County! for defeating Measure T, and supporting Measures G and H. This preserves what is left of the library's budget after reductions based on the State and County budgets.

Big wind and rain storm last few days - knocked over the basil and geraniums, and saturated the soil so everything is spongy. The spiders have come indoors to dry out, and even though it's not really cold, the fire was quite cheerful in the fireplace! Weather for any zipcode is here: Weather Underground (http://www.wunderground.com).

Having had the virtues of blogs drilled into me at the Internet Librarian 2002 conference, I have created my first blog. Don't know how often I'll be able to post, but hope to make it a useful tool for work.