Well, it’s one thing, really. But it’s a doozy.
When I was in grade nine, one of the big projects for my art class was to find a painting — I think it had to be by one of the Group of Seven — and reproduce it with a graph scale. I chose Northern Lights, by [...]
Posts under ‘Library Stuff’
Things I Hate About Libraries
Don’t Support Authors
Back in February, I wrote a post about why I love second-hand books — something that I didn’t see as particularly controversial, but which did generate some oppositional comments. One commenter wrote the following:
Worthy points, however i have in the last 5 years begun buying new books in order to support the authors, they don’t [...]
Pimp my High School Library
I chanced to reconnect, the other day, with the excellent head librarian from my high school days. She’s still there, but she’s retiring at the end of this year — and looking forward to it very much, I might add. During the conversation, it chanced to come up that she still has a fair amount [...]
BTT: Library Week
I saw that National Library week is coming up in April, and that led to some questions. How often do you use your public library and how do you use it? Has the coffeehouse/bookstore replaced the library? Did you go to the library as a child? Do you have any particular memories of the library? [...]
Just Call Me Numbskull
I had an exam today, ENG331, two hours of Renaissance Drama before being officially done school for the winter break. No sweat, really; we’d been given the essay questions in advance, so it was really a question of matching some answers and then writing an essay from a mentally outlined essay prepared in advance.
Except.
I got [...]
Deadly Sins of Bookdoom
So does this fall under coveting, or just plain lust?
BTT: Libraries
Whether you usually read off of your own book pile or from the library shelves NOW, chances are you started off with trips to the library. (There’s no way my parents could otherwise have kept up with my book habit when I was 10.) So … What is your earliest memory of a library? Who [...]
Music Librarianship
I am a happy cataloguer — it’s true. It doesn’t even have to be books. I catalogue my books for fun, but I’ve also been working (both paid and volunteer) as a music librarian for about three years with my current choir, and for a year with a previous group.
You might be wondering what a [...]
