The latest display in Media is “Warmer (and Weirder) days are ahead, NJ” – our attempt at keeping up with the warm weather-adventurous feeling that everyone seems to have, but with a spin – Weird NJ – to keep up intrigue rather than a table of how-to garden DVDs . My co-worker and I gatheredContinue reading “Warmer (and weirder) New Jersey”
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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 Last* Week:
Adrift by Natalie Serber | The Rumpus We Are The Ionians (Video) | Indie Alaska Mothers are not ‘opting out’ – they are out of options | Al Jazeera Stepping into the Stream: Bringing Netflix-style Video to Libraries | Library Journal How a child’s food preferences begin in the womb | the Guardian A CountryContinue reading “What I Read Last* 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:”
What I Read This Week:
S.F. Library Proposes New Code of Conduct with Penalties | San Francisco Chronicle Biologists: Vermont Bats Begin White Nose Recovery | The Daily Record How Lego Survived Against All Odds – And You Can Too | Fast Company Lawmakers Want To Allow State Schools To Secede | Lock Haven Express Trilobites: Variations on a ThemeContinue reading “What I Read This Week:”
Related to that Buzzfeed “article” about things that are never quite the same after college
The last time I was in my college’s library, we sat in one of the second floor alcoves. He was working on his student teaching final portfolio and I was writing my last paper for that accursed Brontës seminar. I had no interest in that seminar. But it was a reading seminar rather than aContinue reading “Related to that Buzzfeed “article” about things that are never quite the same after college”
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:”
Midnight Movies @ 7 – The Warriors (1979)
Tonight, as a part of our ‘Midnight Movies at 7″ series, we screened The Warriors. Attendance was on the low side, but we had a good discussion afterwards about the story and cinematography. We watched the “Ultimate Director’s Edition”, which was styled differently from the original edition. That provided for discussion for balancing current fansContinue reading “Midnight Movies @ 7 – The Warriors (1979)”
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”
Cassidy B. Charles 