[your blood here]
maker! shover! fly into a hole!
Imagine your surprise when you learn that you are, in fact, an award winner. Surprise! You are! And so am I!
I want you to know that I have always believed in all your library dreams.
Albrecht Durer
"A Young Hare" by Albrecht Durer
Albrecht Durer painted “A Young Hare” in 1502. In 1502 Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World. It was his fourth and final voyage. Journalism is termed the Fourth Estate — an expression originating during the French Revolution. Though the French Revolution began in 1789, French King Louis XVI was beheaded January 21, 1793, beginning the bloody Reign of Terror. The Tower of Terror is a Disney amusement parks simulated free-fall thrill ride based on the television series The Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone was created and hosted by Rod Serling, and was broadcast from 1959-1964. In 1964 the movie The Nasty Rabbit was released, about a Russian plot to secretly infect US rabbits with a nasty, lethal bacteria. In 1767 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first observed bacteria through a microscope of his own design. A microscope is a device used to view things too small to be seen by the naked eye. In the book of Genesis Adam and Eve were ashamed of their nakedness after eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and they sewed fig leaves together to fashion aprons to cover themselves. Hares do not eat figs.
Learn More:
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. University of California Museum of Paleontology.
Athena Review Iamge Archive: Map of the 4th Voyage of Chistopher Columbus
Figes, E. (1990). The tree of knowledge. New York: Pantheon Books.
Google image results: microscopes
Liberty,Equality, Fraternity - Exploring the French Revolution. Browse French Revolution Songs.
The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life
The Nasty Rabbit. Internet Movie Database.
Racusin JL, Karpov SV, Sokolowski M, Granot J, Wu XF, Pal’shin V, et al. (2008). Broadband observations of the naked-eye gamma-ray burst GRB 080319B. Nature. 455 (7210), 183-8.
What Fruits Can Rabbits Eat? from Yahoo! Answers
pretending to think inside the box
Somebody has something to tell somebody. Somewhere somebody met someone else. Somebody somewhere is named after their someone’s special someone. Somebody did something for somebody, someone else created more space by changing tables — compromises, yes, but what else can I say?
Oh! W0rlDcAt
Oh! W0rlDcAt we esteem you. Oh! The keyboard is 180 degrees away and the monitor is off and we sense your highly regarded characteristics. Oh! Your good works are becoming famous. Your good works are accelerating. Excuse us but you’re incredible. Wow.
indescribably pleasant to all our senses
Tonight at the reference desk a student asked me to read this section from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden:
He asked me what I thought it meant. He wanted to talk through his ideas. I talked to him about the passage, and recommended some resources for critical analysis and research.
Related Resources:
Ogden, M. A., Keller, C., & Thoreau, H. D. (1985). Walden, a concordance. Garland reference library of the humanities, vol. 557. New York: Garland Pub.
- Cady, L. (1961). Thoreau’s quotations from the Confucian books in Walden. American Literature, 33, (1), pp. 20-32.
palling around with librarians (from the future)
Do you believe in magic telephone numbers? I do. I believe together we can dial these magic numbers and contact experienced or new librarians from the future, because I believe in librarians from the future who walk among us, some with alarmingly beautiful mobile devices, some with acutely sharpened pencils. Sometimes they are disguised as angels.
They will pal around with you. They will draw Venn diagrams in the air like hexes that make real the points of contact between people, information, resources, what is known, what is unknown, chthonic animals and ether. Some among you may be asleep. Some among you may be wondering if all librarians are good. No. Some librarians are crying. Some are filled with light and grace. Some are very good at what they do. Some are character assassins. Some stop to say hello. Some pretend to be patrons complaining about library services they don’t like because real patrons are not complaining. Some remember their manners. Some are watching you, waiting to delight in and exaggerate your missteps or distort your words and deeds. Some go out of their way to support the efforts of their colleagues, and serve their various constituencies. Some see opportunity and possibility in their situation. Some point their finger and blame. They all make mistakes yet there is hope for them all. They can all play a role in something wonderful. Today is a new day. Tomorrow is another. Do good work and be a pal. Don’t let others define you.
Further sources of inspiration:
Bivens-Tatum, W. (2007). The Ethos of librarians. In Academic Librarian. Retrieved November 19 2008 from URL (http://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2007/12/the_ethos_of_librarians.html).
“Code of Ethics,” American Library Association, July 07, 2006.
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/statementspols/codeofethics/codeethics.cfm (Accessed November 19, 2008)
Futurama Official Site. URL (http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/futurama/index.jhtml).
palling around. (n.d.) The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. (2003). Retrieved November 19 2008 from URL (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/palling+around).
