Head Over Heels
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Alarming Announcement
The Detroit Free Press announced yesterday that it will begin limiting home delivery of its print edition to three days a week starting early next year. Apparently, there will still …
Unexpected Surprise
Not to sound opportunistic or anything, but I like it when other people’s mistakes work to my advantage. For example, last week I finally bought a copy of a long …
Updates
One of my big, pressing projects right now is to create an EAD-compliant finding aid for the papers of the man who was chancellor at UNCG when I was an …
Cool
You know what the coolest thing about working in a library is? When you need to go to the bathroom, there’s always a good book handy.
Mmmm. Bound Periodicals.
Latest addition to the ever-growing library at our house: the complete run of Progressive Architecture from 1953 to about 1990, and the complete Architectural Record from 1950 to 1969. These …
Email Preservation
I sort of got the big geeky digital preservation bug tonight, and finally converted eleven-plus years of email — half of it in the old Eudora mailbox format — into …
Double Prints?
Since this article about the demise of film processing service in retail stores was mentioned today on both a superamarket board I follow and a library mailing list I subscribe …
The First Paper
My left arm hurts like hell, the result of a tetanus shot I had to have today in order to continue with school. Seems UNCG shredded my last set of …
Back to School
Random snapshots from my first week as a graduate student: What could be more annoying than slogging your way through a dense, 20-page treatise that atempts to determine the difference …