More Lucy/Lucie at the Paley Center

Lucie Arnaz will visit New York City's Paley Center (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio) Oct. 28 to "share memories and screen clips" of performances of her and her mom from the 1970s.

I don't think I'll be able to go, but I am really happy to hear that many more Lucie and Lucy performances will be available for public viewing at the center's locations in NYC and Beverly Hills.

More great news from the center: The catalog of the center's TV, radio and advertising collection is finally online! So if you want to screen a Lucy program (or any other), you can plan your trip beforehand. (There is a limit on how much time you can spend per day on personal screenings. It's been a while since I've been there, so you should check with the center before visiting.)

Birdland Photos

Seth and I got a nice photo with Lucie at her Birdland show Saturday, July 19. Photographer Duane Menor was kind enough to take it:

And überfan Glen Charlow has posted photos from Lucie's show on her birthday, including a nice group shot of the Luckinbills (Joe, Lucie, Kate and Larry).

Lucie Redux

Seth and I are going to see Lucie again, this time in NYC, at the famous Birdland Jazz Club. LA's birthday was yesterday, and she's made it a tradition for a few years now to celebrate at Birdland. I've seen her perform many times, but this will be the first time I've seen her at Birdland.

An Appreciation of Journalists at a Tough Time

If you're in the newspaper business (editorial or business side, or an investor), things are getting really bad here in July 2008. My local newspaper, The Star-Ledger, has combined sections on the only two days I subscribe (Sunday and Thursday), while still trying to keep roughly the same amount of content. (I love the paper, I just don't have time to read it more often.)

You'll cry if you read Editorandpublisher.com.

In the past two days, there's been news about layoffs at the Orlando Sentinel, Baltimore Sun, Wall Street Journal, Honolulu Advertiser, Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press Democrat and Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Most of the other corporate news is pretty glum, too, for GateHouse Media, Gannett, Journal Register, Media General ... and several shake-ups in the top ranks (editors and publishers).

To cheer up a little, you may want to visit Yoni Greenbaum's Editor on the Verge site. (Yoni has a lot of great ideas for making helping reporters and editors do their job well, as they face a ton of challenges.) You can also check out the SLA's News Division to see what some really smart and enterprising information professionals are doing to keep the news industry humming.

I work for Dow Jones, which is a newspaper company, though I have nothing to do with the newspaper (WSJ). Whether you like or dislike the recent changes in ownership and content of the paper, WSJ is better situated than some other newspapers -- its pending layoff is smaller than that of other papers as a percentage of staff.

Before becoming an Info Pro, I worked as an ink-stained wretch for multiple papers in New Jersey (as a reporter and as a copy editor). I have a great deal of respect for journalists, who are held responsible for covering everything in their towns, while being fair to their readers and their sources, staying up to listen to one interminable school board or planning board meeting after another, and keeping one ear cocked to the police scanner the next morning as they roam around town trying to find a unique story.

P.S. I can't imagine my opinion here would be too controversial, but to be clear, it's mine and only mine.

Cool Seattle, Cool SLA

Seth and I are in Seattle for the SLA conference. 60-something-degree weather in Seattle is a nice change from 90+ in NY metro area last week. The Homewood Suites hotel is very nice -- great to have a fridge, too. Some construction, so no pool for this trip. )-:

I've been doing a lot of blogging for NJSLA and even trying Twitter instead of here.

Posted 'LinkedIn a Box' module on this blog's sidebar. Let me know if it works/makes sense.

Seeing Seth's family later this week in Seattle/Carnation, and my mom's cousin next weekend in Portland, Oregon.

Tech Tools (a plug for the NJSLA blog)

Check out the NJSLA's blog, where I've posted a list of three tools for info pros: one offered by SLA, one e-learning site, and one site with lots more e-learning opportunities.

Lucie in Phillie

Photos from our trip to see Lucie, and other pictures from Phillie, are here.