It isn't a compelling point, since I have not been very active in keeping my blog up to date lately, but I would like to let folks know that I will be disabling comments on most of my future posts. The reason is the pervasiveness of robotic spam machines that insert the same sort of crap in the comments fields in blogs and "guest books" that you get in your email.

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Posted by Walter at 09:26 AM

On Tuesday, April 8th 2008, I made a presentation at the "UUGI Superconference" on using the SIRSI Unicorn library catalog system to create a digital document library. I am putting the slides up on my website in case anyone who attended the briefing wants a copy of the slides.

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Posted by Walter at 10:26 AM

There is a bill before the State Legislature that would declare 48 State Parks "excess property", which would release them for sale and development.

While we may all be angry about the proposed state park closures, just being angry will do no good. The only way we can make an impact is by making ourselves heard.

Here are a few ways:

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Posted by Walter at 09:53 AM

If someone wants to get dressed up in a uniform, and march around playing "bang you're dead", it is generally not too difficult to find some kindred spirits to play with.

However, for those who are more interested in the more peaceful aspects of history, it is sometimes a bit harder.

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Posted by Walter at 10:21 AM | Comments (0)

The folks who are fighting to save our State Parks from the Governor's planned cuts have set up a website to coordinate their activities.

It can be found at http://www.savestateparks.org/

Posted by Walter at 09:56 AM | Comments (0)

This has been passed to me by Richard Powers of Stanford University:
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Posted by Walter at 09:45 AM

This may be of interest to preservation groups.
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Posted by Walter at 08:40 AM