Computer Science Class

Discovery Channel


Video Design

Is anyone still out there?

I've been thinking about what I need to be doing with my life and career. I have a bit of a change planned. It's not a big one, but I think it will make me much happier in my chosen career of library science.

But I don't want to be just some librarian somewhere. I want to contribute to the profession and actually do something beyond the four walls of my own institution. So, how does one go about that?

Well, it seems the most common first step (based purely on anecdotal evidence, of course) is starting a blog. So, I think I may just repurpose this blog into something of value.

Any thoughts or suggestions? Is there a niche that needs to be filled by yet another blogger?

Is anyone still reading this anyway?

A New Game

Hipster Bingo

It's difficult to play in NEPA, but definitely doable in Pitt or Philly!

Best line I've read in a long time

"PowerPoint is the greatest barrier to understanding since the invention of education degrees."


Source:
"Forum: Does PowerPoint Actually Help?" The Chronicle of Higher Education 1 Feb. 2008: C4.

Sorry, Steph!

Identity Revealed

Heidelberg University library in Germany has announced that the identity of the Mona Lisa has been confirmed. According to marginalia in a book owned by Agostino Vespuccui, a friend of da Vinci, the subject of the portrait is Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Florentine merchant Franceso del Giocondo.

The article from Spiegel Online can be found here.

The Joys of Web 2.0

The Library of Congress is on Flickr.

Wow.

I just got a friend request from Tomer on Facebook. I don't even know what to say!

Latin's really not that hard.

I CANNOT believe one of our classmates asked what "N.B." means. And another one responded with "no brainer."

Mark, it was very nice of you to give her a straight answer. If you hadn't already responded, I might have said something snarky.

I always thought that was general knowledge. At least for anyone with a degree.

Hitler's Xbox

This is one of the best Youtube series I've ever seen. Original movie footage from Downfall.

Hitler Gets Banned (His Ultimate Downfall)




Hitler's Xbox: The Saga Continues Chapter 1
(done by a different user as a response to the above)




Chapter 2
(the grammar is pretty bad on this one, but still funny!)




Chapter 3
(Conclusion)

Evolution of Dance

A brilliant video. Do you remember doing all of these dances?

Heynabonics

This is quite accurate (and features people I actually know.) People in NEPA really do talk like this!

Bad embedded video!

Here's the link for What to Do in a Zombie Attack

Sorry, Bill!

Be a Better American

and kill the communist zombies.

What to Do in a Zombie Attack

Moving Stacks

Suggested viewing from one of my profs:

I am now a librarian!

I have finally become a real librarian. How is that, you ask? I have finally been asked the question which has been plaguing members of our profession for years:

Where is the bathroom?

Arts and Crafts

I am not paying lots of money to get a Master of Library and Information Science so that I can spend my day cutting out letters so I can climb a ladder and tape them to the wall of the student lounge.

This is getting ridiculous.

Of course, I got a compliment from my boss. I guess I did a good job.

Ugh.

Quotation

I love this quotation:

I am inclined to think, sir, that perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory characteristic products of American civilization are the librarian, on the one hand, and the cocktail on the other. I will not attempt, sir, the delicate question of deciding which is best, but I am given to understand that some of us have sampled both and found them equally satisfactory and equally stimulating.

—Croydon (England) Public Librarian L. Stanley Jast, responding on behalf of overseas visitors to a welcoming address by Louisiana Purchase Exposition President David Francis, at the first session of ALA Annual Conference, Oct. 17, 1904, held at the St. Louis World's Fair.

Night Activities

For those of you who can escape city lights, the Perseid meteor shower will peak late Sunday night.

Quoted:

"We are no longer going to be part of the security forces; we are going to be part of the community."
~Nicholas Parker, lieutenant general in the British army, on its withdrawal from Northern Ireland after a 38-year mission.

Thoughts?

Libraries in Space?

NASA's newest Mars lander is bringing a "library" to Mars. If you ask me, it's less of a library and more of a special collection.

It's also using antiquated technology. If we can't read it, why are we expecting Martians of the future to be able to read it?