And you’re right…OhioLINK isn’t in the position of publisher — especially for those dusty old book things.

Maybe something about the new gig might make sense…if there is anything that can properly be characterized as a new gig. We shall see…

The “second epub” I’ve been pondering would very much be based on a more focused approach to synthesizing the informal literature in a specific area. And that’s probably as much as I should say right now, unless you’re a publisher anxious to form a working relationship! (“You” being anyone reading this post; I don’t think OhioLINK is in that position.)

Writing about the new gig (when you get the new gig) would be appropriate, if you have had time to settle in. I don’t know how time intensive it was to do the “Balanced Libraries” book, but you might try something equivalent (just smaller) — take a topic and collect a representative sample of blog postings…

There’s also another 3, but given the review it got locally and given that we never watched 2 in that series, I won’t mention it.

This one’s strange, though: COAP was really done as a little joke. I never expected to see 200 downloads, much less 2,000, since it really wasn’t carefully-selected “best of” essays (it was more “least widely read” essays, which might be less widely read for good reason!).

The followup was natural enough because there was so much new stuff to be said about speaking and conferences–and the COAP format let me put it in context with huge swaths of repeat material.

So the question really is, what would I do for a threepeat? I’m not ruling out the possibility. On the other hand, if you look at whole issue count and consider how many issues are left this year, there’s another special of sorts due early next year… Maybe the New Gig Centennial? If, of course, there’s a new gig by then.

Fiona: You’re welcome–although it’s hardly comprehensive. I wanted to add a section on unconferences and the like, and maybe a quick writeup of alternative learning models (focusing on Five Weeks), but when the first cut ran 51 pages I just gave up.

Laura: I figure the HTML works for people who don’t want to print it out; I only include warnings in cases like this, where there’s really only one overall essay.

People look at you funny? We’ve been taking our own bags for grocery shopping for years–and that’s even a tie-in to the issue, since what we use are canvas bags I’ve received at various state conferences and the like, when such conferences give away canvas bags rather than vinyl carriers. So Safeway baggers are familiar with Access’99, Texas Library Association, one of the LITA National Conferences, and four or five others…and around here, there are moves to require reusable bags or at least make it expensive not to use them.

Maybe a link to the photo mashup?

Cut to a shot of Samuel L. Jackson: