It’s the end of the semester! That means that I get to spend more time here: and here: and here: and, lest you think that I spend all my time in wholesome outdoor activities, it also means that I get to spend more time poking around the internet. Four recent favorites: Do I have room [...]
Posts Tagged ‘about me’
Four diversions for a sunny Wednesday
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged about me, covet, design, history, humour, libraries, photography on May 22, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Out of Print Clothing, or Reason #342 why I Love Being a Librarian
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged about me, children's books, covet, design, humour, libraries, non-fiction, radio, Wisconsin on May 14, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I love being a librarian because . . . I can wear a Harold and the Purple Crayon t-shirt to work whenever I want, and what’s more, my students (future librarians all) will give me compliments! My Harold and the Purple Crayon t-shirt is one of two t-shirts I own from the excellent Out of [...]
For dinner guests who like maps
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged about me, atlases, coffeetablebooks, covet, geography, maps, non-fiction, referencebooks on April 27, 2012 | 7 Comments »
One of the running jokes among my friends, librarians and non-librarians alike, is that my dinner parties always degenerate (or advance?) into the same situation: all my friends are sitting on the couch, reading. Often, they are reading a book about maps, and if so, it is likely to be either Strange Maps: an Atlas [...]
Reading, now in Wisconsin
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged about me, ereading, travel, United States, web design on April 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Apologies for the blog silence! I see that some of you have taken a look at my Family History Archive project page, and I’ve got some new (real-life and online) friends, so I thought I’d pick up the proverbial pen and start blogging again! I’m looking forward to getting back to it. Since I last [...]
and finally, Hapsburg library grandeur
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged about me, Europe, libraries, travel on April 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last in this series of European National Libraries is the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Like most things in Vienna, it’s massive, monumental, and maybe even slightly over the top: Once again, we didn’t actually go in – we preferred to spend our time eating Wiener schnitzel and ice cream cones, and gazing at huge [...]
A start
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged about me, libraries, plans on April 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Hi everyone! This is the first post in what I hope (no, promise!) will be a blog that actually gets updated more than once in a blue moon (unlike, say, this one ). I’m planning to write about the books I read, just about as soon as I finish reading them. I’m a librarian, so [...]
