My wife and I celebrated our one year wedding anniversary about two weeks ago, but aside from some year-old wedding cake (which amazingly maintained pretty much all of its deliciousness) eating, the occasion passed with minimal fanfare, as other pesky life obligations got in the way. We’ve saved our official celebration for this weekend, when … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Non-Fiction Has Its Day
A few months ago, I posted about the most popular book in the library’s collection. Now, in calculating the winner of that popularity contest, I included both fiction and non-fiction books, but since non-fiction vs. fiction in a public library is like a bizarro David vs. Goliath in which Goliath stomps David mercilessly, I thought … Continue reading
Summer: Where Silence Goes to Die
If I asked most people, “What do you picture when you imagine a library?”, I’m betting I’d get a response something like “a quiet place filled with books run by bespectacled, bun-headed librarians.” Well, those people would be 33% right. Most libraries are in fact filled with books, but librarians sporting the glasses and bun … Continue reading
Summer Reading: It Has Begun
It has begun. That’s all I need to say at this time of year, and those in library land will instantly know what I’m talking about. For the uninitiated, “it” is Summer Reading, and boy, is it here. With gusto. I’m barely able to break from the madness and cobble together enough stolen seconds to … Continue reading
The Shelf Life 