What I’ve Been Reading – 5/12/2025

Marie Tharp: Mapping the Ocean Floor | Library of Congress Bud Barton on Bringing Library of Congress IT Up to Date | Library Journal Library of Congress Looks to AI to Help Users Sift Through Its Collections | Wall Street Journal The Original Xbox’s Ambient Audio Was Creepy, But Where Did It Come From? [Video]Continue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 5/12/2025”

What I’ve Been Reading – 5/5/2025

A Cheese by Any Other Name: The Legal Challenge over “Gruyere” | Law Library of Congress Jamie Raskin’s Year of Grief and Purpose | Washington Post Bots on the Books: Community Colleges Find Fake Students | Government Technology Can you Legally Import a Toucan? No, you Probably Cannot | Law Library of Congress America onContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 5/5/2025”

What I’ve Been Reading – 4/28/2025

WEDDINGS: VOW; Susan Orlean, John Gillespie Jr. | The New York Times Potatoes: Such an Exemplary Vegetable | Library of Congress Road Trip Through Appalachia: What I ate and learned along Route 11 | National Endowment for the Humanities When Women Leaders Leave, the Losses Multiply | Harvard Business Review As We May Think |Continue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 4/28/2025”

What I’ve Been Reading – 4/21/2025

Can the Capitol hold a much bigger House? Yes, here’s how it would look. | Washington Post Alessandro Piccolomini: Guide to the Stars | Library of Congress Frances Glessner Lee and the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death | Law Library of Congress What Should You Do When the Bear Is Cinnamon? | The New YorkContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 4/21/2025”

What I’ve Been Reading – 4/14/2025

Talavera Ceramics: At the Intersection of Art, History, and Law in Mexico | Law Library of Congress “Cool Off With Coffee”: Promoting Iced Coffee in Mid-Century America | Library of Congress 5 National Park Destinations That Aren’t Parks | The New York Times How to Preserve Priceless Documents at the National Archives | The NewContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 4/14/2025”

What I’ve Been Reading – 4/7/2025

The Best Relationship Advice We’ve Gotten So Far This Year | The New York Times After 20 years as Senate chaplain, Barry Black still speaks ‘truth to power | Washington Post Brazil Found the Last Survivors of an Amazon Tribe. Now What? | The New York Times What Is It About Montecito | The NewContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 4/7/2025”

What I’ve Been Reading – 3/31/2025

Former employees say Smithsonian resisted action on human remains | Washington Post Anderson Cooper’s Newest Assignment: Grief (His Own) | The New York Times Congressman gets attention by cooking for colleagues in 1930 | Houma Today Late at night on a deserted beach, she found a 15 million-year-old fossil | Washington Post Grown-Up Theater KidsContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 3/31/2025”

What I’ve Been Reading – 3/24/2025

I Miss Radio | The Bittersweet Weekly Woman, 100, has journaled every day for 90 years: ‘No excuse for me not to’ | Washington Post Surgeon General: We Have Become a Lonely Nation. It’s Time to Fix That. | The New York Times Coffee: “America’s Necessary Drink” | Library of Congress American Folklife Center BeyondContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 3/24/2025”

What I’ve Been Reading – 9/20/2021

The story behind the mysterious crests on old San Francisco homes | SFGate Library in Tiny Alaskan Village Tackles Housing Shortage | Programming Librarian At the edge of Santa Barbara County, Cuyama is Central California’s cowboy valley of enchantment | SFGate Have a good week!