Saturday, June 6 marked the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion at Normandy. The ceremony was well done, though I wondered about the absence of Queen Elizabeth. (Is she the only living head of state in the world who actually served in the war effort?)
A lot of blogs are also commemorating the event, and one [...]
According to the Global Language Monitor, the English language is due to add its one millionth word on June 10, 2009. The current pace of word creation is one every 98 minutes, a pace not seen since the time of Shakespeare. Sign that we’re not in Stratford anymore? The candidates for the millionth word include [...]
On Tuesday, May 12, 2009, all public access computers throughout the library, including the computers in the Reference Room, will be out of order. We are upgrading the computers and expect the upgrade to take most of the day. The 4th floor student lab will be open and reference staff will be available to assist [...]
The beloved children’s book character may need to switch to a hybrid:
Could a vintage, dog-eared copy of “The Cat in the Hat” or “Where the Wild Things Are” be hazardous to your children?
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has raised that possibility in urging the nation’s libraries to take children’s books printed before 1986 off their [...]
The current financial crisis, in particular the nationwide rash of foreclosures, is being discussed and debated everywhere. I understand the broad strokes, but when terms like “collateralized debt obligation” and “credit default swaps” are bandied around at parties, I tend to start sweating, lest someone ask me my opinion. If you haven’t seen it, the [...]
OhioLINK has a tentative timeline of “a few weeks” until the EJC is fully operational. But although the full text will not be available via the EJC for a while, in many cases it is possible to get the text through the publisher. The EJC website has a list of publishers who are currently allowing OhioLINK users to access content on their site.
If you need [...]
As a companion to the previous post about the preservation of news in all its forms, there’s a new wrinkle in the debate about “the death of the book.” Never mind your preference for reading in the bathtub, or keeping a book shoved in the backseat of the car for emergencies like a road flare, [...]