Monthly Archives: September 2011

First Thoughts

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

Got me some new classmates, 75 of them, in fact. Together, we make up the MLIS class of 2013. A cohort of 76 people initially seems very big to me, having come from a program where a class a third … Continue reading →

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The Right Rate of Productivity

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

Dwight Garner had a piece published in the New York Times a few days ago that’s terrifically well written and very intriguing. Garner’s basic point is that there is a right rate of publication for writers; 10 years per book is too … Continue reading →

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A Known Quantity

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

I was talking to A. (smart man) about his reading preferences, and he said that he likes to read writers whose books he’s liked in the past. So do I; so do a lot of people. There’s certainly nothing to … Continue reading →

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Fun and Cool Facts

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

I learned some fun & cool facts about our library system during my orientation. (Don’t roll your eyes like that; “fun” are “cool” surely some of the first adjectives you think of when when somebody mentions libraries, no? Maybe they’re … Continue reading →

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Student Life

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

Good news, peeps! I’ve found an apartment. The not-as-good-news (because all news must come in two shades, if only for the “objectivity” of coverage) is that the bright & cheerful studio I found in the quiet & pleasant apartment complex,  is … Continue reading →

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Teas I’m not Drinking

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

It now has been a full week and 2 days since I had my last sip of tea. ‘Tis a sad state of affairs.

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Books I’m not Reading

Posted on September 24, 2011 by

It’s beginning to happen: “books I’m reading“ are starting to be replaced with “scholarly articles I’m reading for class”. Less for me now are the random bits of history, selective biographies, gratuitous tomes on the publishing industry, physics and medicines works as I … Continue reading →

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Book Reviews

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

Around the time of its publication, Avi Steinberg’s biography Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian received press and reviews from many of the major American literary media units, including NPR, Salon, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, The … Continue reading →

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Books I’m Reading

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

I’m reading Peter Hopkirk’s 2006 e-edition of The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia. The book is identical to the original 1990 version, with the exception of an added foreword. Although the reason the book was reissued in … Continue reading →

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Kindle! Libraries! E-lending!

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

I’m breathless, folks! Big news over the wire: as of today, Kindle users can borrow ebooks from Overdrive, provided that their libraries are in Overdrive network. This is huge. Until this announcement, lending capability on the Kindle has been effectively zero … Continue reading →

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