Monthly Archives: October, 2008
I voted yesterday
I got in line at 9:15 (having left work immediately after an early morning staff meeting) to cast my vote at the community center around the corner from my library. By that time, a long line of people, bundled-up but still shivering, was already ahead of me, wrapped around the front of the building and [...]
Science / Art
Sometimes fate and chance lead us in interesting directions and provide some unexpected answers to our questions. Today as I was randomly flipping through the book “Teaching Librarians to Teach,” I stumbled across these two sentences:
Librarianship may or may not be a science. Good teaching is an art.
– Marilyn Lutzker
Considering the question I asked at [...]
Under the Influence
When I was in high school, one of the people I admired most was a classmate named Bill. Bill was, without question, one of the most interesting people I knew. He had some intriguing fascinations, like Nietzsche, Tim Burton, and punk music (especially the Misfits and AFI). He was exceptionally well-read (one of only two [...]