Hurricane Rita
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Hurricane Rita


The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) is closing, at least for Thursday and Friday. Galveston County is under a mandatory evacuation order starting today, and area schools are closed for the remainder of the week. So, I'll very likely not post anything until Monday. We will be leaving for San Antonio later today. If the LPI site goes down important information about the institute will be posted on the USRA site.

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- Eos Ils Users
Are there any planetary science libraries or libraries in the Houston/Galveston area using EOS? If so, would you like to participate in Cross Library Search with the Lunar and Planetary Institute? Just let me know. Thanks....

- Hurricane Ike
The Texas Library Association is assembling reports on libraries affected by Hurricane Ike and has put them online. You can donate to the Disaster Relief Fund. The Society of Southwest Archivists has set up an unofficial Wiki so that repositories can...

- Sla Talk
I've posted the text to my talk for the SLA Texas Chapter meeting, this coming Friday. Any suggestions welcomed.Here are the slides. SLA...

- What A Long Strange Trip....
Well, long at least. I left League City, a town about half way between Houston and Galveston, for San Antonio Wednesday at 3 pm. It is a 4 to 5 hour trip, depending on stops and traffic. By 3:30 am we had just reached the town of Katy just across Houston....

- Postings To Catalogablog
Later today I'm off to Dallas to meet with the Cataloging Focus Group. So there will be no postings again until Monday. These meetings are a real treat. I'm the only cataloger here at the Lunar and Planetary Institute. There is no one else about...



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