When I saw the emails nzlibs 'RIP Paul Reynolds' and read them - it didn't dawn on me that he had died - I thought rather that he finished his blog or moved to another country! Alas I did finally discover that he had died on 23 May from leukemia.
I was most familiar with him from his posts to nzlibs and from his slot on National Radio on Afternoons. He was so interesting, with a touch of feistiness and a good deal of sense. Often I heard him while driving and I wished I had a pen and paper to note down his thoughts.
Yesterday May 26 Hamish MacEwan and Jim Mora talked about him on Afternoons and you can hear that broadcast here:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/20100526
The whole of the library world in New Zealand will be the poorer without Paul Reynolds - not the Telecom Paul Reynolds as this Paul would say!
Graeme Siddle
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You might be wondering why this post is on Exportersblog - well it was a mistake! But then I decided to leave it because Paul Reynolds was an important person who analysed the world and what was happening particularly in the world of IT, but not exclusively as you will see from his last blog on Peoplepoints. He warned, cajoled, predicted and advised.
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