This weekend there was another “woe is us, libraries are obsolete” post by a rich white man. (Who, if his comment about looking down on the library from his apartment on W. 53rd wasn’t enough of a clue, touts his…
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Book fun
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Check out this awesome side table.
Laws and Copyright
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Some time ago, long enough that I don’t remember even a general time frame, I saw a link posted on Twitter about copyright and the D.C. Code. Yesterday I came across this post from Prism Legal on the same subject (note…
Hack Library School Day in the Life, Day 5
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Candy Crush Saga status: I’m on level 50. School status: I remembered yesterday that with spring break being over, I have to read for my classes next week. This is why I’ve never liked spring break; it feels like there…
Hack Library School Day in the Life, Day 3. aka Oops.
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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…
Hack Library School Day in the Life, Day 2
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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…
Hack Library School Day in the Life, Day 1*
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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…
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…