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Spring Time Sunday Song: Pink Floyd - Fearless
This weekend New York has had some great early spring ( low 50s) weather. It will probably disappear as soon as the work week starts. Regardless, the seasons march on and I have to start pricing hiking boots for the summer.
justifing academic libraries
from a thread on a community college library listserve. One of the participants heard rumors of that their institution was considering closing their academic library and have their students rely on the nearby public library. Ignoring the obvious accreditation problem of closing an academic library someone brought up some good points to use to defend the necessity of academic libraries.
· Does your library provide reserve textbooks? I’m sure the public library does not!
· Does your library have specific study areas for students? The public library may not have any space where students can work collaboratively without being shushed.
· Your library can purchase expensive, sometimes obscure, academic materials, whether print or electronic, to support coursework and student and faculty research. These materials are intended for a scholarly readership or for specific fields of study, whether academic or vocational, so they will probably not be in the public library’s budget.
· The public library provides reference assistance, but cannot teach college-level research skills, and the librarians there will not necessarily be familiar with college-level assignments nor the need to teach students how to find information rather than just finding it for them.
· In California, our accrediting body would respond negatively if we did not have a library. If you can show that an academic library is an accreditation requirement in your area, you should have no more trouble with administrators.
Sunday Song: Joe Walsh - Birdcall Morning
I normally wouldn't choose a song with such loud drums for a sunday song. But I often play this song, which starts off side two of the album, on the weekends when I eat my breakfast/brunch. To me its a good 'eat your eggs and enjoy the weekend' jam.
Sunday Song: The Pentangle - Once I Had a Sweetheart
It is rather obvious, given the low frequency of posts over the last couple months, that I need to start posting again. Not sure how much of the posts are going to be library related. Anyway, I picked up basket of light by the pentangle over the summer. Sooo good. You can dance to about half the album and chill the other half. Happy New Year
Weekend Dance/Rock Break : Thin Lizzy - Sha la la la Finally got around to watching the dvd of Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous. I'm still haven't made it through their whole catalog so hearing 'Sha la la la' for the first time was a trip. This song has everything I want: a killer riff, multiple guittar solos and one hell of a drum solo. The version above is from a bonus live show (audio only) included on the dvd. I prefer this to the one from the film (and the album version) because Phil's vocal performance. Enjoy.
Job seekers might notice a surge in outreach-specific jobs and jobs with an outreach component in recent years. While outreach-specific jobs might not stay on the radar, you can be fairly certain t...
As someone who recently got a new job (non-outreach) talking about what you are passionate about (profession related) does make a huge impression during phone interviews.
Sunday Song: Skatalites - Black Sunday
I used to listen to this band all the time. I wasn't the biggest fan of their reunion shows in the 1990s because, in my opinion, they stretched the songs out too much with their solos. Their original recordings are just the right length. A great mix of pop and jazz, I guess. Anyway I think I am finally getting used to having a 4 hour commute. I wouldn't recommend it but I am managing. The worst part isn't the commute but the fact that I have only a couple of hours of free time each night before I have to go to bed. Despite this the job is good and it is a whole new experience dealing with eight other full time reference librarians (along with 3 part timers). This results in 10 different opinions on every facet of reference service. The other big change is the difference in size of my new school. At my last job I worked at a college of around 1,500 while my new job takes place at a community college of 17,000. So yeah, not much time for posts.
Sunday Song: Stereolab - People Do It All the Time I was late bloomer to Stereolab fan hood. So Cobra and phases group play voltage in the milky night was their first album I heard upon release and not after the fact. I wouldn't say this is their best album, the reviews in pitchfork and allmusic were rather negative, but I do find it enjoyable. An especially enjoyable moment was hearing the track 'the free design' on the radio while driving through western mass. The song provided a nice accompaniment to the rolling hills of Intersate-90. I can't say I've experienced anything like that for emperor tomato ketchup (though I'ld probably rate that album higher).
Sunday Song: Alton Ellis - Sunday Coming
A great song to that you can either relax away your sunday with or get up and dance too. In my life as a librarian news, I'm about to leave my part time nightbrarian job in the bronx for a full-time day librarian job in Jersey. Some day I will have a commute shorter than an hour, or at least one were I only have to cross ONE body of water.
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Awesome (& Awesomely Bad) Nineties TV on Netflix — Vulture
The nineties were weird. Not as weird as the eighties, when people ate cocaine for breakfast, but not as normal as the aughts, when only celebrities ate cocaine for breakfast. No, the nineties gave us baggy clothing, sex scandals — and a lot of great television. Some of it is even on instant Netflix right now. Here’s a selection of the ten most nineties shows worth revisiting.
and dudes parting their hair down the middle
DIY Kindle Scanner
Machine made with LEGO Mindstorms automates ebook scanning, theoretically rebuilding text free of DRM - video embedded below:
DIY kindle scanner from peter purgathofer on Vimeo.
DIY kindle scanner. this is an art project reflecting the relation of book scanning, copyright, and digital rights management. this is not intended to be understood as an instruction or invitation, but rather as a provocative thought experiment.
Alice and Martin Provensen’s gorgeous vintage illustrations of Aesop’s Fables
Général Bill Murray.
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