Library Preservation Goes Offline

I began this blog about three and a half years, and over 300 postings ago. It has been a lot of fun, but it has also been bit of a drain on time and mental energy. Likewise, over the last six years I've conducted over 20 workshops in book repair or special collections preservation around the state of Michigan. By my estimate I've taught well over 200 people. (This does not include shorter conference talks or my teaching at Wayne State University.) These too have been a drain on time and mental energy.

It is time for me to withdraw and enter a period of hibernation. I did my last workshop last week, and will schedule no more. And now I will also stop posting on this blog.

Its not that my interests in the topic are waning, but letting go of these tasks will give me the mental space and time to work on some of my own art and writing projects - which have nothing to do with libraries or preservation. I will still try to keep up with what is going on the preservation webosphere. If there are times when I feel compelled to write something preservation related - I'll probably send it over to the good folks at PCAN.

Thanks to all who've ever left a comment or posted a kind word about this blog - my vanity has been greatly inflated. I've thoroughly enjoyed the curious kind of community of colleagues that I've been gifted with through this blog.

Preservation For the People! - Lig-Free or DIE!