I went out and bought a ridiculously expensive office chair that I have been wanting for over a year. There are some libraries that provide these chairs (or similar) to their staff. Usually if they do, they are bought with non-state funds. Aeron chairs are usually not on state contract. They can cost anywhere from [...]
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Remember Tom Leonhardt’s ATG columns about publishers’ catalogs? I miss them. I know that printed publishers’ catalogs are an endangered species but I still like them better than emails, so I was interested to read this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (June 26, 2009). “A Turn in the Spotlight: How Publishers Pick Books [...] Y’all I am supposed to be in Washington but I came down with some sort of bug (not flu, I am sure) and ended up staying home for two days which gave me some time to catch up on some reading. Have been reading several interesting books — “The Art and Politics of Science” by [...] First, I will start by saying that I love my iPhone. It can do everything and is very user friendly. My husband gave me a great mother’s day gift. But on Friday (that’s yesterday) it crashed for the second time since I got it. That’s twice in a little over a month. The first time [...] Is the Library Collection Too Risky? Like many (maybe even most) of my colleagues, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to allocate a suddenly diminished materials budget. Only a year ago our biggest worry was how to [...] |
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