Well, readers, from now until the Friday, I am doing my best to participate in the Library Day in the Life, Round 8. Here’s the brief about the project, taken from their website:
Tags: Cataloging, libday8, Library Day in the Life
Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
January 30, 2012
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Library Day in the Life: Day 1
By Jason W. Dean in Cataloging, Librarianship, Library, Personal
January 26, 2012
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The Month of Letters
By Jason W. Dean in Personal, WritingReaders, you probably know all too well by now our penchant for letters at the Dean house – we try and write a couple each weekend. I have started replying to personal emails (if I have not replied during the week) with a letter so that I spend a bit less time in front of [...]
January 4, 2012
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The Power of Mail
By Jason W. Dean in Personal, WritingThe holiday season (which is just about over as of this writing) is quite the time for mail. Holiday cards and letters, thank-you notes, and packages filled with presents. It’s amusing, then, that it appears that the postal service is ending next-day delivery and shuttering many of its locations across the US. Of course, as [...]
December 29, 2011
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2011 Books in Brief
By Jason W. Dean in Books, Personal, ReadingRemember last year when I posted all about what books I read, when, and what I thought of them? That was really great, wasn’t it? I started 2011 fully intending on doing another series like that, but, well, it didn’t happen. As you know too well by now, Jen and I moved to Arkansas, and [...]
December 28, 2011
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As the year winds down…
By Jen Dean in Arkansas, Periodicals, Personal, ReadingAs the warmth of the remainder of a fire still envelopes my toes and I sit with two of my favorite living creatures – one furry, one less so – I cannot imagine a better place to rest. As I flip through the pages of a long awaited magazine volume betwixt stirring a fresh batch [...]
