Library Factoid: The Library of Alexandria
I had planned to stick to American library facts since it is National Library Week, but because several people have …
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Library Factoid: Melvil Dewey
This is turning out to be one heck of a busy week. So if you don’t mind, I will just …
Library of Congress
Too tuckered out today and I have lots to read for school on the ins and outs of doing Dialog …
Vapour-Baths and a Library Factoid
I was able to read some Herodotus over the weekend. It’s good reading about the Scythians who the king of …
Emerson on the Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. Not long after that, Emerson delivered his address, The Emancipation Proclamation, …
Yay Friday!
Blackie in Antarctica snips from the poem by Margaret Atwood My sister phones long distance: Blackie’s been put down. Incurable …
A Library Factoid and Other Things
The spring weather tease. Sixty degrees last Saturday and now it’s raining/sleeting/snowing. It will turn to all snow soon and …
Got Food?
If the number of page points sticking out of the edges of Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food is any …
Hearts and Minds
I’m not sure what I can say about Hearts and Minds by Rosy Thornton that Litlove or Incurable Logophilia haven’t …
Monday Meander
You ever have one of those days where you sit down at your computer and your mind goes blank? The …
