habitually probing generalist

Today I finished reading the book that will serve as one of the main foundations for my paper: Kaser, David. Books and Libraries in Camp and Battle: The Civil War Experience. Edited by Paul Wasserman. No. 48, Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984. It only addresses part of the situation [...]

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Screwed off way to much today.  Read this this evening: Fahs, Alice. "The Market Value of Memory: Popular War Histories and the Northern Literary Marketplace, 1861-1868." Book History 1, no. 1 (1998): 107-39. Discusses how popular war histories, written during the war and sold by subscription, came to be the dominate histories of the Civil [...]

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Seems I’ve been outed as a library student blogger.   Whatever shall I do? Joy, I’m just kidding! I am rather sure it was, on occasion anyway, evident to the casual visitor, and certainly to anyone who looks at my About page.  [Hey!  Typepad, why does my About page still have my old design?  What's up [...]

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Today’s readings and commentaries: Bailey, Fred Arthur. "Class Contrasts in the Antebellum Trans-Misssissippi: An Analysis of Twenty-Nine Confederate Autobiographical Questionnaires." Louisiana History XXXIII, no. 4 (1992): 363-80. Fahs, Alice. "The Feminized Civil War: Gender, Northern Popular Literature, and the Memory of the War, 1861-1900." The Journal of American History 85, no. 4 (1999): 1461-94. Faust, [...]

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Have to start getting ready to head to Bloomington for dinner with friends and then Macbeth.  Thus, I’ll go ahead and post what I’ve read today.  I may get more read while at Milner Library  [not quite live new site], ISU, but I’ll probably just be acquiring more sources.  Hopefully, I’ll get to read some [...]

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Making one of my several trips a year to the dentist today (an hour away in Bloomington, IL) took a goodly chunk out of my day.  And since I was already there, I had to have lunch with my wonderful friend and mentor, Mo.  Thus, I didn’t get a lot of reading done today.  But [...]

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I finally got seriously started on my Civil War and libraries paper today.  Spent a fair amount of time in the reference room, the stacks, and in a few databases.  Have I ever told you how much I adore JSTOR? Here’s what I got read today: Fen, Sing-Nan. “Notes on the Education of Negroes at [...]

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…to the Carnival of the Infosciences #1 Photo courtesy of ishrona under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license. Carnival of the Infosciences #1 hosted by Greg at Open Stacks. Hop on over and check out some interesting, wonderful, and illuminating writing on a myriad of topics related to libraries, librarians, a literate society, library school, technology [...]

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"Well, well, well."   Let’s see what the University of Illinois Board of Trustees does with this.  (Local version)  Will it finally be the goad they need to do the right thing? I am not one of the folks out protesting and raising a fuss, but I do consider Chief Illiniwek to be racist.  There is [...]

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Well, since we have a quiz lover in the house…here’s one I did 6 days ago but had decided not to post.  Because it is (probably) so very wrong.  Is wrong based on the past.  And since it is what I’d like to believe but have no experiences to validate it, it is still wrong. [...]

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