Federal News Radio Tuesday, Apr 18 2006 

David 1:15 pm

I popped off a question to Mike Causey writer the Federal Report on WTOP News. For years he wrote the Federal Diary column in the Washington Post Metro section.

He, along with many others, have been talking about how because of changes at IRS, residents of DC and Maryland sent their taxes to the IRS center in Massachusetts. I used to Philadelphia, PA. So this year April 15 fell on a Saturday so we had until the next business day – Monday, April 17. But wait – that is Patriot’s Day in Massachusetts so that pushed our due date off until Tuesday, April 18, 2006.

My question to Mr. Causey is how come the IRS and apparently the US Post Office had Monday off when it was a state holiday – not a federal holiday. What’s the deal? I live and work in DC, but I don’t get DC non-federal holidays off. So he mentions this in the Tuesday column. And I got an email that I inspired his Wednesday column. I’ll have to take a look at it.

 

Library Week Tuesday, Apr 18 2006 

David 1:13 pm

Well, it is Library Week here at my agency. The ever-perky Marie Kaddell from Lexis/Nexis was here with a new assistant. During the presentation Marie got some photos to put on her blog promoting the federal libraries.

 

Spring has sprung!! Monday, Apr 3 2006 

David 1:48 pm

Hi folks,

It has been a few weeks and life continues apace. I shared my blogsite with an acquaintance from the Internet Librarian Conference who gave me some positive feedback – thank you Jonathan. And congrats on your promotion!!

The boss is away this week and that leaves me acting – power rush!! On the positive side I’m helping to organize our Library Week activities. The usual, demos from ProQuest, Lexis/Nexis and Westlaw. In addition – yours truly will give a presentation with the snazzy title – “Stop Surfing and Start Searching – Doing Research Online”.

Included in that topic I’ll touch on the limitations of online research and give the Library staff a big plug!!! I still need this job.

A couple weeks back I attended a presentation by phenomenal guy – Steven M. Cohen. Maybe he’ll pick this up if I mention that he works for PubSub Concepts.

The talk was sponsored for government Librarians by Lexis/Nexis. Steven’s major points can be gleaned from his wiki-site. Unfortunately, that will never convey the real delight he is as a speaker. Okay, I’ll admit it – I’m a big fan!! Not obsessed or a groupie – I don’t follow him from town to town. But I do try to catch him whenever we’re at the same conference.

At that same presentation, Lexis/Nexis rep Marie Kaddell announced that she has embraced blogging. Her focus is government librarians and of course she’ll be promoting Lexis/Nexis and probably other Thompson products – but aren’t they supposed to do that??

On a final note…. Spring is here. Over the weekend I finished up my taxes and I got out in the yard and played with leaves. That and the time change has me verrrrry sleepy!

Ciao!