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The Lenticular Art of Chris Dean

Tonight I attended a couple of art openings with a friend in the great city of Detroit. It was a beautiful night, nearly 50 degrees, clear skies – a slight breeze that wasn’t cold but rather hinted at winter’s dying … Continue reading

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WSU (Wayne State University) Googlebooks Greasemonkey Script

The googlebooks script I ran for the Farmington Community Library was turning out to be pretty pointless in that the FCL collection is miniscule in comparison with the amount of books available through Googlebooks. In comparison with the Wayne State … Continue reading

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Broken Library Buildings

Time hasn’t gone by at work without my mind starting to wander. The “Library Buildings” concept is beginning to dig into the wrinkles of my brain. I’m curious as to what librarians fancy when they fancy a dream building. This … Continue reading

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Google Reader

The way I read my feeds has been changed forever. I’m dumping Thunderbird – and am in the process of uploading my OPML file to Google Reader. I am totally geekily excited about this. Today at work I was trying … Continue reading

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Alaskan Librarians Tell Their Tales

Having Willishrinx stationed in Girdwood often makes me wonder what it would be like if I were to try to manage my as yet to begin librarian career in the shadows of the howitzer hungry slopes of Alyeska. Based on … Continue reading

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Yezbicks on Tour!

Warning/Disclaimer: This is a lazy post, concerned more with getting this damn monkey off my back rather than details… I think that quite possibly this has been the longest hiatus I’ve been on yet when it comes to the feeding … Continue reading

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No Fines Applied

Today while packing up and returning overdue books to their respective loaning libraries, I came across one that had a superstory — in the same sense as superscript. This particular book was due in early December. Phone calls to the … Continue reading

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Free Culture

Reshelved Lessig’s Free Culture today. It was much more engaging than I was expecting. As someone going in knowing very little about the ways and mores of copyright law — the book reeled me in. Lessig leads you slowly into … Continue reading

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