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Yesterday I attended a Free and Open Source Software for Librarians program by Scott Dexter and Samir Chopra, based on their book Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software. Before you read my report back, you should know that the content is familiar territory to me. My spouse, Eric Goldhagen, gives a similar talk in his half of our "Radical Reference: Community Librarianship and Free/Open Source Technology" (and other talks) road show.

I didn't go to the ALA Annual Conference this year, a decision I made based on its location in Anaheim. I wasn't going to bother making a whole blog post complaining about it, but then I saw the Annoyed Librarian's post, and thought at the very least I'd do a "What she said."

The other day after ogling cats on I Can Has Cheezburger, I decided to check out the other links. LOLdogs, ho hum, but the political humor one, called Pundit Kitchen had some good stuff.

Probably one or two librarians were excited to see one of our ranks in the White House, even as the spouse of the president. In fact, American Libraries had her on its cover, calling her the First Librarian, and featured a mostly apolitical interview with her a few months ago. Me, not so excited.