{"id":57,"date":"2014-03-25T21:02:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T01:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ultraslavonic.info\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2014-03-25T21:02:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T01:02:19","slug":"a-cowboys-gotta-do-what-a-cowboys-gotta-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultraslavonic.info\/blog\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;a cowboy&#8217;s gotta do what a cowboy&#8217;s gotta do&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been just over ten years since I moved to Ann Arbor to take up a position at the University of Michigan, and the institution and my colleagues here have provided me with an incredible opportunity to contribute to building <a title=\"Michigan Publishing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publishing.umich.edu\/\">a publishing organization<\/a> that is widely thought of as as a leader in rethinking scholarly publishing. \u00a0Without any family ties to this area of the world, I could easily relocate to pursue professional opportunities, but I have found that the U-M Library, my colleagues here, and life in southeast Michigan have all been able to offer me better opportunities and a better lifestyle than I would find elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, though, life takes you suddenly in a new direction. The University of North Texas Libraries has offered incredible opportunities for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thatklickitat\">Julie<\/a> and me: she will become the Principal Archivist in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.unt.edu\/special-collections\">Special Collections<\/a>, and I the Director of Library Publishing, with a charge to collaborate with the <a href=\"http:\/\/untpress.unt.edu\/\">UNT Press<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/disco.unt.edu\/\">Digital Scholarship Co-Operative<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.unt.edu\/digital-libraries\">Digital Libraries division<\/a>, and other parts of the UNT Libraries. \u00a0Both of these are new positions in an institution that with a rising stature and in a library system known for its entrepreneurial spirit. \u00a0We&#8217;ll be relocating to Denton in April. While North Texas doesn&#8217;t exactly have my ideal climate (literally or politically), I look forward to this exciting personal and professional change. As one of my coworkers said, &#8220;A cowboy&#8217;s gotta do what a cowboy&#8217;s gotta do&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be only about a 30-minute drive from Dallas\/Forth Worth International Airport and 45 minutes from Dallas Love Field (with lots of new non-stop destinations beginning in late 2014!), so we look to continuing our globetrotting adventures. And I hope you&#8217;ll get in touch if you find yourself in the North Texas area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been just over ten years since I moved to Ann Arbor to take up a position at the University of Michigan, and the institution and my colleagues here have provided me with an incredible opportunity to contribute to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultraslavonic.info\/blog\/?p=57\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultraslavonic.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultraslavonic.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultraslavonic.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultraslavonic.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultraslavonic.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultraslavonic.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultraslavonic.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultraslavonic.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultraslavonic.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultraslavonic.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}