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Dust, maps, and reference rooms in "If You Could See Love"

Haruno and Fukatsu look for a world map in the social studies reference room At the end of the second chapter of If You Could See Love (also named Moshi, Koi ga Mieta Nara), two of the protagonists, noted above, look for a world map in the reference room. They end up finding the map, with Haruno, who is physically weak, helped by Fukatsu, with Haruno relieved. The love between them blossoms, as…

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Shyness, soulmates, romance, and speaking through library books in "The 100 Girlfriends"

Rentaro Aijo (right) meets his then-unnamed soulmate (left), later revealed as named Yoshimoto Shizuka, at the end of the second episode Often times, fictional libraries can be places of knowledge, where characters try to learn more about the world they are living in. [1] Just as common are the library serving as a place of romance. I’ve written about this before, with posts this yuear on these…

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Five years of reviewing libraries and librarians: "Pop Culture Library Review" turns 6

Last year, I celebrated my fourth anniversary of this blog, noting that four years ago, on July 26, 2020, I wrote my first post, entitled “Introductions” on this blog. I introduced myself, my background, and the difference from Wading Through the Cultural Stacks, noting how libraries and archives are different. In that post, I declared that “most of the blogposts will focus on animation and…

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Premiere of new blog focusing on my grandfather's time in southern Korea

In my last post on November 7th, I noted that this blog was being permanently suspended. However, in a comment responding to genealogist Jannigje (Joan) Bos, I wrote, in part, that “I may also start a blog about my grandfather’s time in Korea, as I have a LOT of records about that, so that probably is the direction I will be going.” I was scanning some documents today and am happy to announce the…

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Permanent suspension of "Decoding my Transylvanian roots"

Like my sister blogs, Digging for Italian Roots and Milling ’round Ireland, I am permanently putting this blog on a hiatus. I appreciate all readers up this point and I will leave this blog as an archive of sorts, but I will not be writing any future posts at this time. If this changes, I will let you know.  

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Permanent suspension of "Digging for Italian Roots"

Today I wrote on my account on genealysis.social the following “Hello everyone. With the recent election results, I am suspending my Digging for Italian Roots blog indefinitely. I have scheduled posts on Packed with Packards! blog until July 11th of next year, but I do not plan to write any more there, and will probably also phase out that blog, turning some of my posts into a book.” The former…

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The hilarious library joke in Futurama

In the “Mars University” episode of Futurama, which first aired on October 3rd, 1999, the Planet Express crew go to Mars, which has, in the universe of this wondrous animated sitcom, been terraformed and has a typical college campus called Mars University. Before the episode becomes an homage/parody to Animal House, there is a scene where Professor Farnsworth tells Leela, Fry, and Bender about the Wong Library, adding that it has “the largest collection of literature in the Western universe.” After that, Fry looks in and sees these two disks:

That’s obviously the joke, and is more than a “bookish moment.” It’s basically saying that all the knowledge can be stored on two disks. It’s still kinda funny, although the joke is dated, as these are supposed to be something like CDs (which first came about in 1982). In a future post, I’ll definitely bring in the Futurama episode (“Lethal Inspection”) that fellow archivist Samantha Cross of POP Archives reviewed, when I get to that season, as I’m currently only on Season 2 of the show as I plan to re-watch all the show’s episodes, over time.

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Editor's Note: This is reprinted from my post, "Challenges of archival digitization, Robert Caro, and digital archives"

Reprinted from Pop Culture Library Review and Wayback Machine.