Friday Fun Thing: Carnegie Quote

A friend (thanks, Janice!) brought to my attention a news item in the Princeton Alumni Weekly for May 10, 2006, entitled, ‘Loch’ Carnegie marks 100 years.

Why is this a Friday fun thing, you might ask? As my friend remarked: "How soon they forget!"

The salient quote?

Kenneth Miller ’72, a great-grandson of Andrew Carnegie, recalled skating on the lake as a boy of 3. He said Carnegie’s philanthropy is a lasting legacy, telling of a friend who had remarked, “I can’t figure out how he made so much money, owning a chain of libraries.”

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ALA Assortments: Early Bird Registration Ending

From Lorraine Olley at ALA comes a reminder that the early registration for the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans ends this Friday, May 19.

To register go here. To see a video on how ALA's Conference will help out libraries and the community in and around New Orleans, go here.

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In Memoriam: John Iliff

Today has brought the very sad news that a former Florida librarian turned tech guru, John Iliff, passed away over the weekend. I do not often post in the first person in this blog, but for John, I must.

I first met John in 1990 when he was still at Embry-Riddle and we were serving together on a Florida Library Association committee planning the Connect full-day preconference. We worked together on it for approximately nine months and ultimately birthed a bouncing baby full-day, very well-attended preconference. It was after that event that John became ever more interested in the Internet and its promise and moved into technology to become the nationally know tech guru and tech advocate that he was (he was co-founder of PubLib). John was truly one of the good guys. He not only worked his hardest for the benefit of library patrons and for moving technology to the place that it was helping libraries achieve that same goal, but he also genuinely enjoyed people and had a gift for making people feel that they mattered to him. I’ve missed him since he left Florida and I know they’re going to miss him everywhere else he worked. It is a great loss to the profession. My sincerest condolences go to his family, as it’s an unimaginable personal loss for them.

PALINET (his current employer) has set up a Web site here where information will be posted when available about donations in his memory and where people can share condolences and remembrances of John.

SUBJECTS: CFLC CHRONICLES