Snow day, snow day! But without any actual snow. There was a fair amount of griping from parents stuck at home with bored kids and no snow, but in my mind, this was the best type of snow day. A whole day off from work but the commute tomorrow will be no worse than the…
First Tuesday of the month means DC Council legislative meeting, also known as try-not-to-say-something-on-twitter-that-gets-me-fired day. This of course has nothing to do with library school, but it is very related to a day in my life. Also in my day today, the last bits of inauguration are gone from in front of the White House.…
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 causing me to pull my hair out for no reason other than my own flakiness.…
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 Times Book Review for 2012. Although it took some time to get started, on account…
Melvil Dewey is my dad? Dewey: (photo information) Dad:
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 sorts of jobs. I, perhaps foolishly, didn’t realize that 86% of library school students already…
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 I went looking for frames. Not that I have any hope of a pair of…
“Petrochemical feedstocks.” I have no idea what it means, but isn’t it a great phrase?