we will typically talk about (announce) our grant-funded projects as soon as our funding for them is secured, which often involves a little bit of negotiating between our “legal people” and the funders’. we’re not secretive, i promise, and are as anxious to tell as you are to hear, i assure you.

finally, i’m looking into that bilingual library/media professional question; thanks for raising the focus in this post on US, english-speaking library staff. you’re very right that there are many many ways and reasons not to reinvent the wheel. cheers!!

Your focus on the US offers an interesting perspective of how the old National traditions lock librarians into yesterday’s mindset, in a rapidly globalizing world.

How do you “change a culture”? I think your doing a pretty good job, considering the great number of older people in the US compared to counties below the equator, and considering the conservatism of librarians, who by their nature, MUST be conservative.

You might like to consider, E.g., as i suggested a while back, that if you are going to run a Spanish speaking outreach program, then it should be run from (hosted on) a site which ends in .es, and whose host is situated in spain (or mexico, or..) WJ might find that the cultural change you would like to inspire is simply a matter of finding ways to help global peers to find one another, so they can communicate.

So do us a favour will you? If yu do have a project in the works, would you talk about it (above the radar) before you start working on it in middle America? This grumpy old man is getting bored with watching the reinvention of wheels on the (world wide) web, and that’s just in three languages = English, American and Australian.

PS Do you have any figures on the trend of (bilingual)graduates employed as (general) Media specialists?