habitually probing generalist

This morning I did original cataloging of my 1st serial. In hand I had 7 weekly issues of a Spanish women’s magazine; not sure if we’ll get any more of them. It wasn’t as bad as I expected and the subject heading and class number were quite easy. Not to imply that women are easy [...]

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Found at LibraryTavern For once, one of these things is somewhat accurate. Be forewarned, you have to give up a bit of personal info to get your results. They do have the standard “do no evil” privacy clause. Holding them to it is another matter, of course.

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This afternoon I saw Little Miss Sunshine with my friend Tracy, and after had beers at the Blind Pig with Tracy and my new friend, her husband, Stuart. [I was trying to place Pageant Assistant Pam, Mary Lynn Rajskub, but couldn't. She was the neurotic sister, Elizabeth, in Punch Drunk Love. Of course!] Little Miss [...]

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The Solitary Monk You are influenced 84% of the time by Spiritual callings and 46% of the time by Religous beliefs! You have a firm understanding of the beliefs and workings of the universe. You also agree with some religous practices and traditions. You are often upset by the Occasional and tend to dislike the [...]

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Green Man Originally uploaded by broken thoughts. I just hung my 1st “picture” over my front door in my new apartment. I guess that means progress is being made. PS: Let’s see if blogging from Flickr works better tonight.

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I am glad to see that once in a while a person gets what they deserve: Papa’s got a brand new bag (of metadata) at Inherent Vice. This is the job that I was hoping to get; really hoping to get. But once I found out my friend Richard is the one getting it I [...]

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ISU Homecoming Parade 2001Originally uploaded by ISU Milner Library. For those of you who might think I have no street cred as a library worker, that’d be me, pulling the cart at this point, calling the drill for our 1st place marching team for ISU’s 2001 Homecoming. The photo right next to this one in [...]

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For those of you keeping track of movies with librarians I have a new one for you: Over her dead body, directed by Desiree Herrera. Copyright 2006 Skittblink Productions. This movie (running time 48:49) was made at Oberlin College during Winter Term 2006 by a group of Obie students. It is a fun romp of [...]

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This is not a review. I have no idea how to review literature, especially Czech lit. Klíma, Ivan. Love and Garbage. I finished this book last night, having read it and Kundera’s The Joke over the summer for my book discussion group. I really do not know enough about Czech history to properly place these [...]

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NOTE: Please ignore. Imported entries are not showing the trackback URL link. I have found the trackback:ping URL in the source of a post (Indexablog) to which I will try and send a trackback. Not a good long-term solution. For future, more complete troubleshooting see also: Template TagsTrackback URL. Immediate Update:  Did not seem to [...]

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