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14 September 2011 ~ 5 Comments

Nicole’s Back

That’s right folks, I am home and recovering! After one night in the hospital I was able to walk up and down the hospital hallway (with a walker) and that was all I needed to be able to get in the car and come home. Today my home care specialists will come by and evaluate [...]

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12 September 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Nicole’s Surgery: Recovery

After her recovery period, Nicole was groggy and drifted in and out of sleep.  She was soon moved to her room, where she did much the same thing for a while. Eventually the physical therapist came to teach her to walk again.  Nicole met this with a lot of resistance, as she was in a [...]

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12 September 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Nicole’s Surgery: Success!

The doctor just came out and told us that Nicole’s surgery was a success, and went according to plan.  There was some minor issue with the anesthesia, and she had had an allergic reaction to the antibiotics they had her on initially, but all that got worked out, and now she’s through surgery and in [...]

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12 September 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Nicole’s Surgery: It Starts

Nicole mentioned a while back, I think, that I (Brian, her husband) would be posting on her behalf during her surgery and recovery, to keep you up-to-date on what was going on. Right now, I’m sitting in the waiting room at the Rothman Institute, while she is prepped for surgery.  Once her IVs are started [...]

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23 July 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Writing More

Hello loyal friends and readers! I know that I have been absent for a very long time and I’d like to explain and give you some good news. For the last few years I have been writing books almost non-stop. The first was Library Mashups in 2009, followed by Practical Open Source for Libraries in [...]

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14 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

My Twitter Infographic

I created an infographic based on my tweets, create your own.

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14 December 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Learn Open Source in a Day Long Camp

In March I’m doing a day long camp for NyLink on open source software in libraries. If you’re in the area make sure you sign up because space is limited. The library community is abuzz about open source software. Open source usually refers to an application whose source code is made available for use or [...]

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09 December 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Two Preconferences at CIL2011

The program is out and I’ll be giving two pre-conference sessions at Computers in Libraries 2011 in Washington, D.C. Make sure you register early!! W7 – Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data Sunday, March 20, 2011 :: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Nicole C. Engard, Director of Open Source Education, ByWater Solutions [...]

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23 November 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Upcoming Tech Webinar

Next month I’m teaching Finding The Right Technology For Your Library for METRO as a webinar. If you’re interested please register online. Details are as follows: December 06, 2010 (10:00 AM) Register for this event Location: Online Registration fees: $20 members; $20 myMETRO; $40 non-members

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20 November 2010 ~ 3 Comments

New site design

It’s that time again – What I Learned Today… has just had a facelift. I have updated the theme here to take advantage of the new features available in WordPress 3.0. I hope you all like what you see (hopefully you’ll step away from your RSS feed reader to take a peak).

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