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on September 10th, 2004 in Administrivia, Digital Library, Librarians in popular culture, Life, Linguistics by | 2 Comments

Sorry I haven’t updated in a few weeks. I’ve been busy downloading music from this quasi-legal Russian mp3 site. But not at work (hi library colleagues). And there was some vacation involved. And dog-sitting. And basement wall dry-locking. Speaking of the theft of intellectual property, at work recently I’ve been…

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Moving, changing, constant rearranging

on January 30th, 2004 in Cornell, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Digital Library, Ithaca, Life by | Comments Off

Moving, changing, constant rearranging It’s official now, and I can finally talk about it here. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, yes, yes, yes, I’m buying a house. Well, it’s a theoretical house at this point, just a glimmer in the mortgage-lender’s eye, but someday soon, around the end of June hopefully,…

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In which Metafilter links and I fret

on September 16th, 2003 in Cornell, Digital Library, information science, Ithaca, Library school, Linguistics, Michigan by | Comments Off

EEE! I’m quite excited about being linked on Metafilter, but was it just me, or did some snarky person imply that the name Librarian Avengers is a possessive plural? I’m so confused. There aren’t even any adjective-noun agreement issues, and hello, avengers serves as a collective noun anyway. It’s like…

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Hooray Hooray the ALA

on June 25th, 2003 in ALA, Books, Cornell, Digital Library, Librarians in popular culture, Librarianship, Shopping by | Comments Off

Oh that wacky American Library Association convention. Imagine, if you will, 50 billion librarians wandering around downtown Toronto. Yes, it looked like that. I did a bit of shopping on Sunday afternoon, and had the honor of being informed by a salesgirl that a librarian had appeared on TLC’s A…

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