My friend Casey: rockstar librarian

Big big congrats to Casey Bisson. He has received the prestigious Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration for his WPopac project. Casey is down in DC now getting feted and adulated. Nice work Casey! From the press release:

â€œFor years weâ€™ve been talking about the digital divide in terms of access, and weâ€™ve been working hard to put computers and networks into every school and library,â€ Bisson said. â€œBut those same libraries, and their communities, are invisible to people online. If libraries are to be more than study halls in the Internet age, if they are to continue their role as centers of knowledge in every community, they need to be findable and available online. They need the tools to represent their collections, their services, and the unique history of their communities online. Thatâ€™s what WPopac does.â€