Hampton U. and Literary NY

So, according to this email, maybe Hampton U. isn’t dissolving their cataloging department after all (thank you nice people at Kent State for this):

"I have
received from a number of colleagues a copy of announcement of the
closing of
the Technical Service department of the Harvey Library at
Hampton
University .  Harvey Library has no
plans to close the Technical
Services department.  Professional
cataloging of our resources will
continue in house.  Authority work will
continue.  We will continue to be
staffed by professional librarians in
the catalog department assisted by a
staff of qualified
paraprofessionals.  Cataloging of our ever increasing
complement of
electronic resources will still be necessary as with printed
and audio-visual
materials.

Frank B. Edgcombe, Acting Library Director, Harvey Library,
Hampton
University."

I said it before, and I’ll repeat it here–I have no idea how (un)true any of this is. But I would hope the catalogers keep their jobs.

An uplifting note about upstate New York is here, courtesy of Yahoo! News:

Literary Pilgrimage in Upstate New York

"AUSTERLITZ, N.Y. – Twin baby grand pianos stand in the living room of a
white clapboard farmhouse high on the Taconic Ridge on the border of
New York and Massachusetts. Here the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
composed and played duets. The sculpted bust of the Greek poet Saffo
still dominates one corner, while a painting depicts Millay’s husband
and sister swimming naked in the outdoor pool, now filled with murky
water beneath a heavy canopy of trees."

It’s not the best written travel piece I’ve ever seen, but it’s worth a look.  Enjoy!