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Just back from Denver and ALA Midwinter where it was 12 degrees many days and snowy! Always fun to see friends and go to stimulating meetings and compare war stories. The talk of the meeting was budgets, layoffs, furloughs (do you know that some states do not allow this? South Carolina sure does). Also talk [...]

For those of you who think Charleston always has moderate or hot temperatures, hear this! We are all freezing to death in record lows. The other day, we actually witnessed/felt 10 degree temperatures! Some sort of record. This has got to be the longest period of “coldness” that we have had since I moved to [...]

Going over approval plan books, I have run into two interesting books about books. First, Ali Smith’s The Book Lover (New York: Anchor Books, 2006, 978-0-307-38608-3) seems to be a charming treasure trove of books that Ali loved over the course of her reading life (which she started at the age of three). I haven’t [...]

I was just walking around the library stacks this morning searching for books and journals. The library is pretty dead since the students are not due back for class until this coming Monday. So, when I spied a lone person using a HARDCOPY PRINT BOOK I decided to check it out! Turns out I knew [...]

Back to the grindstone after 16 glorious days of vacation, sleeping late, eating too much, reading, relaxing, cooking, and visiting with friends and family. Whew! Need to come to work to relax! Trying to balance my checkbook after all the holidays plus to add to the “fun” my fridge quit on Christmas Day! Went out [...]