Going to Princeton, code4lib++
Though I will miss Seattle and my colleagues at the University of Washington, I am leaving to work at Princeton University Libraries as a digital library developer. I'm looking very forward to helping design their repository infrastructure and building repository tools. This is a fabulous opportunity to continue my work on digital libraries, and for my wife and I to return home to the Garden State.
Still, it will be difficult to leave an area we've grown so fond of, and especially to leave the family and friends we have up here. There's a certain bittersweetness I experience with every move, and this is perhaps both the most bitter and the sweetest I've felt about a move yet; I can think of no other cities I'd rather live than Seattle. But that ol' Dorothy was right: there is no place like home. And home, in this case, happens to be the place where our closest family members and most of our friends reside, and also an area with perhaps the greatest number of career opportunities for a digital librarian-up-and-comer like me.
I'd also like to express appreciation for the code4lib community, and especially the #code4lib IRC channel. Without them, I likely would never have learned of this position. I've been meaning to post about how code4lib has changed my thinking about the profession of librarianship; but suffice it to say that I feel indebted to this wonderfully resourceful and visionary community for broadening, to a great extent, my perspective on library technology. I've benefitted greatly from their knowledge and diverse points of view, and have felt welcome in the community from the outset.
code4lib++
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Well, and we've enjoyed having you there! And if you hang out there long enough, perhaps we can fix your spelling, too! (it's "indebted" and benefited"). ;-)
I must have missed that day in English class when we went over "indebted." I desperately looked for validation on Google, hoping to find some rarefied usage or perhaps an alternate spelling in British or Australian English. But alas and alack, you have indeed caught me in flagrante delicto. Seeing as this is the first mistake I've ever made in my lifetime, I would appreciate if we could keep this between us. And surely don't tell my wife; I've got an illusion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H reputation to uphold.
I stand by "benefitted," though I occasionally do spell it with just one 't'. Noah Webster and the Merriam Bros. back me up on this one, at least: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/benefitted
Incidentally, a search for "endebted" on OED returns the entry for a library tech-related word: http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50074919?
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Congrats, Michael! Great news.
[...] In light of my recent announcement, I figured I would make sure that the three of you who are reading this — assuming my mother and wife are still following along — have bookmarked the durable URLs. (Durable, at least, to the extent that they will live on after my 9/20 resignation date at UW.) The persistent URL for Technosophia is http://purl.org/net/leftwing/blog. The URL for Technosophia's feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/technosophia. [...]
mjgiarlo++
#code4lib changed my life too when dsalo pinged me in channel about some software development jobs at the Library of Congress. I'd been looking for a way in there for a couple years at least and when she let me know about somone at LoC looking for contractors.
Anyhow, I look forward to taking a little day trip up to visit you and ksclarke sometime after you get settled in :-) It's fun having you around in irc!