Spring break, yay! Oh wait, spring break barely registers when one works full time. But–spring break, more time to work on papers, yay! On tap today is a paper about the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act. The paper has been…
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2013 Reading: Books one and two
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At the beginning of the year, in a post on a blog that I ought to import to this one, I decided that my reading goal for 2013 would be to read the top ten books in the New York…
My dad is Melvil Dewey
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Melvil Dewey is my dad? Dewey: (photo information) Dad:
Work and school, school and work
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When I enrolled in library school, I made some assumptions. One of those assumptions — wrong, like most of my assumptions — was that when one says that “nearly everyone in the program works full time,” one means in all…
Shush!
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A library post! From the librarian blogs I’ve started following, there seems to be a very important issue: busting stereotypes of librarians. Apparently I am a Very Bad Librarian (to be) by having looked for “sexy librarian” glasses last time…
Phrase of the day
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“Petrochemical feedstocks.” I have no idea what it means, but isn’t it a great phrase?
Nativity
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Today’s question of minimal consequence: Why do we say “Native Hawaiian” but “Alaska Native”? (See, e.g. 20 U.S.C. s 7265e.)
Stowaways
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Got distracted while working today and came across a very useful piece of information: stowing away on a ship or aircraft is a federal crime. So, you know, don’t do it. That trip in your friend’s suitcase just isn’t worth…
Missed opportunity
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While a coworker has been on maternity leave, I’ve been doing the pre-publication review of agency rulemakings. It’s been fun. And sometimes there are really great errors. Like “diffuse a fight” instead of “defuse a fight.” It keeps my mind…
Taxis
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I’ve been pondering taxis all day, since I read about cab drivers protesting proposed legislation that will require them to have newer cars, etc etc. (Yes, the “etc etc” is because I haven’t actually read the bill.) Then there was…