I’ve always had things that I read or discover in passing that pique my interest and push me into reading extensively about a subject. Among my more recent interests in this vein has been Abraham Lincoln. My interest first came when I read the book Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin shortly after it [...]
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Dispatch from Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant April 7 1865, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Quakers
Despite what you might think, or learn in library school, librarianship is a profession of paradoxes and challenges. Many times librarians and other individuals outside the profession talk at length about new technologies and trends that present librarians with challenges externally. However, there are challenges inherent in the job we do as librarians, and one [...]
Tags: Access, Alberto Manguel, Boston Athenaeum, Librarianship, Nicholas A. Basbanes, Preservation
I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms. – Tom Hanks in You’ve Got Mail Each year, as autumn approaches, I take on a feeling of youthful giddiness. I am apt to incorporate a spring to [...]
At the outset I feel obligated to tell you that this should be my last post about cameras for a while. I plan on resuming my usual rambling next week, but I feel as though after my last post about cameras, I left the door open to talking about my newest camera – my 903SWC. [...]
Tags: Hasselblad 903SWC, Photography
The digital communications technology that was once imagined as a universe of transparent and perpetual illumination, in which cancerous falsehoods would perish beneath a saturation bombardment of irradiating data, has instead generated a much murkier and verification-free habitat where a google-generated search will deliver an electronic page on which links to lies and lunacy appear [...]
