I have no time to post today; I’ve Seussed all of my time away. It’s the good doctor’s birthday we’re celebrating A few days too early, but flam-floof to waiting! What a good time it has been, though I’m one tired soul, Worn down from shagging balls for “Oh, the Places You’ll Bowl!” Now I’m … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2014
If You Google it, it Will Come…Sometimes
Before there was Cullen, author of the goofy “Shelf Life,” there was Cullen, author of the slightly-more-serious-but-not-by-choice “Blog Which Shall Remain Nameless in This Space” (hereafter to be referred to as BWSRNITS).* When I was in library school (yes, you have to go to school to become a librarian. Graduate school, even. It’s shocking to … Continue reading
Down But Not Out
On Tuesday this past week, the unthinkable happened here in library land. No, they didn’t change the Dewey Decimal System; our Internet went down, which was almost as traumatic. For around five grueling, archaic hours, we were forced to operate independent of all the magic powers we’re accustomed to being afforded by the Web. It … Continue reading
One For You, Nineteen For Me: The Taxman Cometh to Benbrook
This time of year in library land, there’s one question asked so frequently that it gives “Where’s your restroom?” a run for its money as the undisputed king of reference questions: “Do you have tax forms?” Beginning seemingly immediately after the New Year, party hat hair-suffering, confetti-trailing citizens of Benbrook flock to the library seeking … Continue reading
The Shelf Life 