…is anyone else doing world wide knit in public day? I’m planning to go to the one in Rittenhouse Square, if it’s a nice day, with either the Sweater That’s Almost Done But Just Needs Sewing Together* or the Adorable Baby Hat. * Which is why it’s not done yet. I like to knit, but […]
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I’ve been coveting the "Pogo" bookshelf, which secures to the floor and the ceiling on pogo-stick-like legs, ever since I saw it at the Bookshelf blog. I could really have used one for a room divider in my current apartment. An altered-book art roundup (spotted at the Library Success wiki, which suggests donating books to […]
The job search has all but eaten my brain, and it’s been a while since I posted a poem for the virtual commonplace-book. So here’s a poem while I obsess about interviews and other unbloggable topics: Spring Pools These pools that, though in forests, still reflectThe total sky almost without defect,And like the flowers beside […]
This week’s readings for my Digital Libraries class turned out to be some of my favorites of the term so far. Favorite #1: "The Social Life of Documents," by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, an essay that later became part of The Social Life of Information. Here’s the part that caught my interest: The […]
It’s a little embarrassing that the La Dominique crepe cart has been in business right next to Drexel’s Hagerty Library for four months already and it took me until today to discover it and try their crepes. One can get crepes made with buckwheat flour and a greater range of fillings at Beau Monde Creperie […]
[Warning: I’m going to talk about clothes for this entire post. If you’re looking for serious intellectual content, you may want to look elsewhere.] I just won a small academic award from the iSchool. The prospect of a minor financial windfall, combined with the prospect of an “economic stimulus check” from the feds, has gotten […]
Personally, I think the alleged ghost in the New Paltz library is a bug crawling over the security camera lens. But the video‘s still kind of eerie to watch. (Paging agents Mulder and Scully!)
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve had two campus-visit job interviews and one phone interview in the space of eight or nine days. I don’t know exactly when the Great Job Search of ’08 will end, but I should know more next month. Most of it is unbloggable at this point, but I’ve been […]
Since several of you who read this have asked about it, I wanted to point out that the Questioning Authority conference proceedings are now online, and you can get to my conference talk from the page with the rest of the papers from my panel. The slides should go up too, at some point. If […]
I’m glancing back in during my job-search-madness-month hiatus to say: Hello, blogosphere, I’ve missed you! I’m still busy, still neck-deep in readings and assignments, and prepping a couple of job talks while getting ready for another phone interview. But I’ll try to post intermittently while the rush is on. Things that are making life easier […]