Guys and Dolls, the senior class play my senior year of high school, is back on Broadway and opening this weekend. No matter who’s in the production, I still only see my former classmates in the various roles.
Fugue for Tinhorns
February 27, 2009
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It Gives Me the Warm Fuzzies Inside
February 18, 2009Reading this passage in my text for Advanced Reference (Thomas Mann’s The Oxford Guide to Library Research, Third Edition) and my subsequent moment of internal, “SQUEE!” made me realize I am in the right profession (italics mine).
Sometimes the cross-disciplinary potential of the various indexes…is surprising, as shown in the following examples:
- Business Periodicals Index picks up an article titled “Case Study of a Decision Analysis: Hamlet’s Soliloquy from the journal Interface
- Index to Legal Periodicals cites a law review article, “Hamlet and the Law of Homicide,” and others such as “Shakespeare and the Law,” “The Lady Doth Protest Too Much Methinks: The Use of Figurative Language from Shakespeare’s Hamlet in American Case Law,” and “Examples Gross as Earth: Hamlet’s Inaction and the Problem of Stare Decisis.”
- General Science Index locates an article “Was Shakespeare a Playwright?” from Science Digest
- Art Index picks up such things as an article in an architectural journal on the reconstruction of the Globe Theatre in London and an Art News report on the discovery of a long lost portrait of the Bard.
- Biological and Agricultural Index too, occasionally covers an article on the Shakespeare Gardens in Central Park in New York; in 1987 it also picked up an essay on the use of a medicinal term in one of the Shakespeare plays…
(Mann, p. 91).
The fact that I got all sorts of excited over cross-disciplinary searching and the doors it can open for reference service and scholarship not only proves that my student loan debt is not going to waste – but confirms that yes, I am a big fat nerd. (And proud to be one, might I add.)
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Liquid Librarian
February 14, 2009From Westword (alternative Denver weekly newspaper), specifically an article about the recent ALA Midwinter Meeting:
Check out some of the drink selections at the Hyatt Regency developed especially for the ALA: the Overdue, made with rum, orange and pineapple juices and raspberry purée; the Boolean Operator, with mango rum, crème de cacao and cream; and the Happy Librarian, a mix of tequila, triple sec, fresh lime, cucumber, cilantro and Green Tabasco.
I’m tempted to try the Happy Librarian and the Overdue.
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It’s Not That I Didn’t Have Anything to Say….
February 9, 2009Just not enough time to say it. Ah, the joys of the first two weeks of a new semester. Sarcastic as that comment may sound, it really is a joy, because I do love being back in the classroom, seeing my friends, and exercising my intellect.
I’ve been listening to so much good music lately, both during work and play. Allow me to share my favorite new earworms.
– I’ve been into Johnny Cash since Walk the Line (which I have yet to see), and by far my favorite song is Man in Black. Listening carefully to the lyrics makes me realize how relevant some of them are almost 40 years later:
– One of the benefits of donating to public radio (besides contributing to a tradition of quality programming) is that they send you free stuff. I donate to WXPN 88.5 in Philadelphia annually (and have been since 2007), and I get some nice CDs as thank you gifts. One was XPN Local, promoting artists from the Delaware Valley, which is where I discovered Dan May. It’s an odd mix of both perky and mellow folk, but it works and I like it.
– Anyone who is a fan of the Sticks and String podcast has heard Rob Costlow and his piano more than once. I’m not even going to try and describe this one, just go to his website, pour a glass of wine (or soothing tea if you do not drink), close your eyes and get the “Calgon Take Me Away” moment without the actual Calgon.
Other artists I have listened to of late include Jon Auer and Fleet Foxes, the latter of which brings me back to high school choir class.
And if you want to hear even more good music, listen to my high school pal Derrick’s radio show The Weekly Grind on WMWM 91.7 Salem State College radio. He’s on the air Thursdays 7-9 AM.
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