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on June 11th, 2007 in Books, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Digital Library, Favorite Posts, Librarianship, Library tourism by | Comments Off

Binders of field notes sit in the common area of the Macaulay library, the audio/video library where I spent three years working as a software interface designer. These are all digitized now, but the collection goes back to the 1950′s so these books are the last line of defense in…

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Deliver my books bitch.

on February 2nd, 2007 in Avenging, Books, Cornell, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Digital Library, Favorite Posts, Interface design, Librarianship, Tech, User Interface Design by | 13 Comments

I tried out Cornell Library’s book-delivery service this week. A nice stack of David Foster Wallace books quickly appeared at my workplace yesterday afternoon, and I got a friendly call when they arrived. If you are a Cornell student or staff, you can have library books delivered to any library-location…

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Graduation Bucket List

on June 25th, 2004 in ALA, Avenging, Beekeeping, Library school by | 1 Comment

I found this list from a year and a half ago. I was half-drunk and coding a webforum for my PHP class. I made a list, oh so long ago. Here it is… List of things I want to do after graduation: _____________________________________________ Learn Yiddish Finish reading Sophie’s World (Done!)…

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