Busy, busy, busy . . . I’m slowly and painfully working my way through Microsoft Access and SQL, and have the basic skill of modifying queries and building reports, but there’s a long way to go. The most immediate trick was to nudge one of the existing queries (the Bib-level "s" item data) to produce…
Way back when I was returning to college after a year’s hiatus, I took an ancient history course. The teacher’s name and most of the historical details I learned have been forgotten or misplaced in that murky swamp I call a memory. But our professor said one thing that stuck with me through the years. …
This is Lara (aka, Mrs. Rogue Scholar, MLS). Lara is a librarian at the NYC Dept. of Health Library. Before she started there, she worked at the EPA Library on Broadway, NYC. This is Lara’s book, "Fat Chicks Rule: How to Survive in a Thin-Centric World." (I helped write the first chapter.) And this is…
Very likely the entire planet has seen this already but on the slim chance that you have not, here’s something I found courtesy of the TSLIBRARIAN listserv, which pulled it from the Library Link of the Day website, which is now in the Library Resources TypeList to the left. At any rate, here is More…
If you’re looking to renew your knowledge of Dewey Decimal classification–which can be a drag, but plenty of libraries continue to use it and it’s a good skill to retain over the long haul–then you might want to take a look at the WebDewey Tutorial over at OCLC’s web site. They cover Dewey in a…
I admire Richard Dawkins’ mind very much. His delivery, well, not as much. That said, this observation is sheer brilliance: "We are going to die and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they’re never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in…
From Variety, the most hopeful news I’ve heard all year (the whole 10 days): Democrats push ‘Net neutrality Internet Freedom Preservation Act is introduced By WILLIAM TRIPLETT WASHINGTON — Democrats, who all but sank major communications reform legislation in the previous congressional session over the issue of so-called ‘Net neutrality, marked the first day of…
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCERhttp://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Overdue_Book.html Sunday, January 7, 2007 ยท Last updated 7:12 a.m. PT Library book returned _ 47 years overdue THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HANCOCK, Mich. — Robert Nuranen handed the local librarian a book he’d checked out for a ninth-grade assignment – along with a check for 47 years’ worth of late fees. Nuranen said his…
It’s 2007, so rejoice! That’s 365 more days (well, 363.5 as I write this) in which to learn a new skill (I’m going to learn how to brew beer) or improve a skill you already have. It’s also 365 days in which to kiss your spouse, hug your kids and tell your parents and friends…
E.P.A. Library Closures Could Threaten Public Health By Leslie Burger, AlterNetPosted on December 14, 2006, Printed on December 14, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/45494/ This piece originally ran in the New York Times. If you needed to find out how much pollution an industrial plant in your neighborhood was spewing, or what toxic chemicals were in a local…