habitually probing generalist

The End of summer in an Alley
Originally uploaded by broken thoughts

Summer ends
just as it began
in an Alley
alone …
… with my thoughts.
mrl 25 August 2008

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Uh, not you. Me. Or maybe you but you have to take the scientific test to find out.
Found at the Academic Librarian, of all places, because even ALs need to have a little fun.

You Are Sexually Powerful

Your attitude toward sex is healthy, safe, and sane.
You enjoy sex as much as (or possibly even more than) [...]

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A simply gorgeous creature

Originally uploaded by broken thoughts

This amazing creature posed for me as I was heading to lunch today. There are quite a few more pictures of him in my Flickr stream; each with their own point of view and areas of focus.
Ensure you have a look at the largest size for all of [...]

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Taking a cue from someone else’s post which I saw a month or so back here is a list of the books which I have read in the 1st half (plus) of 2008. I imagine I missed recording one or two and I know I failed to record one or two which were re-reads. I [...]

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Foskett, D. J. 1984. Pathways for Communication: Books and Libraries in the Information Age. London: C. Bingley.
 

I read this lovely little book [128 pages] last week. In many ways it has a lot in common with John Budd’s Self-examination and with Patrick Wilson’s Two Kinds of Power. All in all, it falls in a sort [...]

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Book review submitted
Wednesday I finally submitted my first book review for publication.  Thanks, Walt, for recommending me to the editor. The book I reviewed is:

Budd, John. 2008. Self-Examination: The Present and Future of Librarianship. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited. [WorldCat]
 

The short version of the review I would have liked to write is this:
Read. Discuss. Rinse. Repeat.
With [...]

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