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What I Read Last Week:

  Haymaking via Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm Musings on Outreach as Instruction | ACRLog When a Race for Women was ‘Crazy’ | Wall Street Journal TWO Youth Services Things That I Have Been Thinking About (2014 Edition) | Justin the Librarian (re: this is what I am talking about when I say SERVING THEContinue reading “What I Read Last Week:”

What I Read Last Week:

In College Lacrosse, Two Brothers Flirt With Making History | NPR Orange is the new academia | College & Research Libraries News The Most Expensive College in Each State (Map) | Mental_Floss How Chocolate Might Save the Planet | NPR Steeped in Darjeeling | National Geographic Foodtown: A visit to vibrant Montclair | Edible JerseyContinue reading “What I Read Last Week:”

What I Read This Week:

Give Them What They Want | The User Experience | Library Journal It’s Adventure Time | The Awl Arts Crawl exposes community to north campus | The Daily Collegian Fertility Mystery Solved: Protein Discovered That Joins Sperm With Egg | the Guardian 2014 Eisner Award Nominees Announced | Comic Book Resources Why Can’t I BeContinue reading “What I Read This Week:”

What I Read This Week:

Is your BPA-free water bottle as safe as you think it is? | PRI Snake Hill. | S.P. Sullivan (Money line: I have an idea in my head to recreate Parson’s “Snake Hill on the Jersey Meadows”” in a photograph at sundown, so I was doing some reconnaissance. I’m a shit navigator so…) A StateContinue reading “What I Read This Week:”

ALA Midwinter Meeting 2014 – Review

Phew. Over two weeks have passed I attended ALA Midwinter 2014, and I think my head is back on straight. Prior to Midwinter 2014, I had attended NJLA 2013 and the exhibits of the Public Library Association annual conference in 2012. The ALA Midwinter Meeting is inherently larger than either of those conference since itContinue reading “ALA Midwinter Meeting 2014 – Review”

Activities at My Library Today:

Sewer Line Replacement in the basement, which includes jack hammering and trenches; Aftermath of a broken sprinkler head, which rained down tens of thousands of gallons of water down all three floors of the library; Flipped over dumpster; Broken water cooler in the staff room. Needless to say, we are closed from the public today.Continue reading “Activities at My Library Today:”

French Words of Wisdom

French Words of Wisdom In September I started reviewing books for Library Journal – specifically Home Economics books for the Science & Technology division. The Art of French Pastry by Jacquy Pfeiffer and Martha Rose Shulman will be published in December 2013. An excerpt from my review: Accompanying the recipes are attractive photographs, as well asContinue reading “French Words of Wisdom”