Because I haven’t posted a random favorite poem for a while: Love Without Hope Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcherSwept off his tall hat to the Squire’s own daughter,So let the imprisoned larks escape and flySinging about her head, as she rode by. — Robert Graves What I love about this poem: its […]
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In my systems analysis class this week, we learned about the differences between various models for software development, and we talked a bit about the circumstances under which you might choose one model or another. For instance: the waterfall model, in which the programmers and everyone else involved in the project move through a series […]
This video has been making the rounds amongst my coworkers, and it cracked us all up. Something about the juxtaposition of ’80s exercise-video music ("Shout! Shout! Let it all out!"), ’80s library technology (the terminals! the microfiche catalog!), and the shots of people aerobically shelving books and spinning globes — well, maybe it’s funniest if […]
Miscellaneous notes from the first week of classes: Wow, it’s been a while since I was a student. My Tuesday evening class was practically my first exposure to PowerPoint as a lecture presentation method. Not that I’ve never encountered PowerPoint before — far from it — but before this term, I’d never taken a class […]
In honor of Banned Books Week, I made a little LibraryThing widget to display banned books from my own collection: I used Wikipedia’s list of banned and challenged books as a quick reference. Looking over the list, I recognized quite a few books I loved when I was growing up. It made me wonder if […]
Yesterday evening I went to Drexel’s new graduate student orientation. We all sat in an auditorium and listened to presentations on financial aid and library resources and the grad student association and whatnot, and then we all trooped out to eat free food and talk to our advisers at the tables our respective schools had […]
So how about that news from the Met that they’re going to transmit performances into movie theaters? Personally, I think it’s a neat idea, even though I’m not really a huge fan of opera on screen; for me, it’s just close enough to live performance to make me wish I were watching a live performance. […]
One of the topics I’m keeping in the back of my head for a future library school paper is that of the information needs of new members of a community. E.g.: you’ve just moved to an unfamiliar place; how do you find out where the nearest place to get a decent haircut is, or the […]
Updates updates updates! In the midst of moving, I got a job! I’m now the new Reference and Instruction Intern at the Swarthmore College Library. I just started, and am liking it a lot so far. And the commute’s actually quite pleasant: a brisk 15-minute walk to Suburban Station (or, in bad weather, a faster […]
I arrived safely in Philadelphia, and so did all my worldly goods (or if they didn’t, I’ll find out soon enough when I get around to unpacking the boxes of dishes and glassware). Next up: the Benjaminian pleasure of unpacking my library, interspersed with far more prosaic tasks like figuring out how to maximize every […]