Week 7: Thing 12 (thanks, Helen, for the link).

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Week 3, Thing 5, Option A/B : Interesting image and photo posting experience

old card catalog…,
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Wasn’t the justifying premise for the internet and its use “ease” and “speed”? Information at our disposal, in seconds or microseconds, with a few tappings of some keys? And, true enough, the internet and technology does ease many tasks – I’ve never had the dubious pleasure of filing hundreds of [...]

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Week 1, Thing 2: Pointers from Lifelong Learners

It was much easier to forgive my ineptitude at ten than it is now at double and a half that. Many comments regarding “The 7 1/2 Habits of Successful Lifelong Learners” were that the principles were kind of no-brainers, or at least natural to people in the librarian profession, which is probably true. I am [...]

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Week 1, Thing 1: About This Program

I’d forgotten how much I like tangibility: the feel of paper, the diametric width of a Pilot Fine Point between my thumb and fingers, the ink of an index, and the sheer stationary-ness of a book bound to stay in one place.  I like pencil notes and post-its hanging like page-mane , stars, and circled quotes.  None of this [...]

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Help me, I’m stuck!

The bummer about a really great book is that it’s SO HARD to find a good book to follow it.  Since finishing Those Who Save Us, I’ve spent a few hours skimming through a book that was not worth even that, I’ve picked up a few books and read a couple paragraphs, and I’ve browsed through some nonfiction, [...]

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Forgotten titles or plots or people, but something remembered…

If you had to give a rough estimate, how many pages would you say you’ve read in your lifetime thus far?  I was just thinking about the hundreds of books we read, the hundreds of books we forget, and the handful we remember.  Do you think we can ever really forget something we’ve read, or [...]

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A most-recent read (a.k.a. Week 2, Thing 3: First posting)

Resonate.  Thrum.  Pulse.  Stay.  Sustained as long as evanescence can be.  Just finishing Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum and enjoying a great conversation with my friend, Emma, both of which exercised some basic, essential muscle of being for me, those opening verbs catch all I can say about words at this moment.  
What an extraordinary thing Ms. [...]

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