I couldn’t resist this meme any more than Jane Dark could… Your life as an Opera by ladivinabionda Name Voice type Coloratura Soprano Your character type The evil monarch who has potential lovers executed Your Opera will be: A tragedy based on Greek or Roman mythology with a glorious deus ex machina ending. Composer Beethoven […]
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Commissioned by Cork 2005, European Capital of Culture, The Knitting Map drew its inspiration from Cork City, celebrating its place at the cultural heart of Europe. The Knitting Map is not a literal map; instead of a single still image, it is a moving, evolving translation of the busy-ness of Patrick Street; the wetness of […]
On Monday morning I got to work only to find that the power was out, not just at the library but all over campus. Swarthmore was one of many places in the region whose electricity was knocked out by the nor’easter. We all figured it would come back on before long, but it didn’t. We […]
I have a scintillating weekend ahead of me. Taxes. Statistics homework. That’s pretty much the shape of it, though there may be some Blackadder as a reward for getting the taxes done, if I have time. So, until I return, have a poem: Rain Travel I wake in the dark and rememberit is the morning […]
The most beautiful thing I’ve seen this week: this page from the Stockholm Codex Aureus. We looked at a slide of it in History of the Book last night. You can’t quite tell from the image, but the vellum it’s written on is dyed purple. Aren’t the letters just amazing? (We looked at slides of […]
I’ve now watched the entirety of the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica on DVD. (I don’t have cable, so nobody spoil me for season 3 in the comments, please?) And the other night, watching the two parts of "Lay Down Your Burdens," the S2 finale, I suddenly said to myself "Hey, wow, it’s the […]
One more post, since I’m on a roll today. If you’ve been hearing a lot about Web 2.0 (or Library 2.0, for that matter), then you must see "Supermarket 2.0." I’m not quite geeky enough to get every single one of the jokes, but oh, the bottled water tagged "transparent" and "WYSIWYG," and the cashier […]
This quarter at Drexel, the class I’m excited to be taking is History of the Book. I’m already generating paper topics. (I want to use the paper to explore one of my nebulous future project ideas. Representations of opera in 18th century British engravings? Maps in books? Stages in the development of indices and tables […]
The ACRL conference has been blogged exhaustively by the small army of official conference bloggers (note to self: sign up to be one of those bloggers the next time I want to go to a conference). So I’ll just distill the highlights into one post. Luz Mangurian’s talk about learning and cognition was great: a […]
I got back from my Baltimore trip last night, and will post a more detailed account of ACRL in a day or two. (Short version: learned some interesting things about cognition, the PennTags project, blogs in the classroom, and related topics; managed to bump into lots of people I hadn’t seen in ages; went to […]