Shawn P. Calhoun

[shawncalhoun]

Chris pushing a run across @sfgiants #ATT park #Lowell #baseball #CIF #AAAChamps (at AT&T Park)

[shawncalhoun]

Peace out Portland! Keep it weird and never change @pdxcarpet ✌️#acrl2015 (at Portland International Airport)

[thepinakes]

I want to talk about the human capital inherent in library organizations – the distinct expertise, skills, perspectives, and values that people who work in libraries contribute to the academy. And I use the term Librarian to describe those people – the people who work in the library organization and contribute to the core missions of the library. To refer to a broad range of people who work in a library as librarians – regardless of their job title or credentials – is actually fairly controversial, so let me be clear about one thing. I use the term in this more inclusive way not to devalue the library degree or those who hold it in any way at all — I use it rather to value the range of degrees, skills, talents and experiences needed to make information accessible for current and future scholars.

Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries, MIT

The Once and Future Librarian | Feral Librarian

(via thepinakes)

[shawncalhoun]

More adventures in #SanFrancisco (at Japanese Tea Garden-Golden Gate Pk)

[shawncalhoun]

I took my dog to the beach. This guy brought his rake. #OnlyInSF #youaredoingitwrong (at Fort Funston)

[shawncalhoun]

Hope y'all had a solid #actionfigureworkday 👊 Now let's get on with the weekend! 🙌 #afd2015 (at California Academy of Sciences)

[polaroidsf]

[shawncalhoun]

❄️ this 'ish is real. #alamw15 (at McCormick Place Chicago Convention Center/Chicago ILL.)

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Adam Mansbach’s Rage is Back is a sneaky hybrid of a novel, part nostalgic urban graffiti memoir, full of vintage hiphop references and lush, old school New York descriptions; part brooding supernatural thriller where shamanic ritual and ancient subterranean presences secretly shape the...

Find a copy at your local library…. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/793911033

[slightlyignorant]

NUC Christmas Tree 2010_04 by shawncalhoun on Flickr.

[shawncalhoun]

Always good to see the NUC Book Tree making the rounds on Tumblr :)

[mostlysignssomeportents]

TOPSY TURVY WORLD is one of the new titles from Flying Eye, the kids’ imprint of London’s wonderful NoBrow publishing. Like the rest of the line (recently reviewed titles include Welcome to Your Awesome Robot, Monsters and Legends and Akissi), Topsy Turvy...

[ccthing]

12 years ago today, we launched the first Creative Commons license suite. Please take a moment to think about the role that CC plays in your life, and consider making a donation to help carry CC into 2015.

Thank you.

[shawncalhoun]

#TBT 2012. ⚾️👑's #SFGiants #dynasty (at University of San Francisco)

[newyorker]

[nevver]

The New Yorker

[shawncalhoun]

#coolbreeze (at Fort Funston)

[shawncalhoun]

Wandering around behind the scenes at MPOW with @coco_hayes and @msh #spiralstaircase (at Saint Ignatius Church)

[thelifeguardlibrarian]

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. The names of the subjects seem to lay open the way to a new world. Your arms are full of new, clean notebooks, waiting to be filled. You pass through the doors of the library and the smell of thousands of well-kept books makes your head swim with a clean and subtle pleasure. You have a new hat, a new sweater, perhaps, or a whole new suit. Even the nickels and the quarters in your pocket feel new, and the buildings shine in the glorious sun.

Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

Is is a wonderful time to begin anything at all.

(via thelifeguardlibrarian)

Always.

(via thelifeguardlibrarian)