What's happening at the library and items of interest to the UB community
The past year has been a pretty good one for cinephiles. Not great. But good. While the caliber of movies coming out of Hollywood is on average very, very, very low (and yes I did need three verys. Did you Continue reading Holy Motors: The Weirdest (and Best) Movie of the Year
It’s not really. But, oh my God, what if it was?! Imagine. Anyway, it is Friday. I didn’t lie about that. And I am, as I’m sure all of you are, very tired. I’ve had to walk to work in Continue reading Friday is Librarian-Work-Out-Video Day
Past the glass cases lined with Grecian urns and Roman armor, past the gift shop and the cafe dressed in Medieval stone archways, past the bronzes of Buddhist saints and paintings of Hindu gods, there are rooms at The Walters Continue reading The Walters Goes Digital
There really are only a few things that I believe myself truly, unabashedly, and unapologetically good at. And right at the top of that short list is procrastination. It’s a gift, I don’t mind saying. Since college, though, I’ve learned Continue reading The Research Paper that Grew Legs and Destroyed Cities
Poetry Center, Chicago It isn’t the easiest thing to talk about books on the radio or on a podcast or, for that matter, in the classroom, and make them interesting. I’m sure you’ve seen, at one point or another, some Continue reading Dusty Books and Podcasts
O. Von Corven “The Great Library of Alexandria Last week I got an iPhone, my first. As you could probably guess, I’ve spent the past few days both trying to figure the thing out and browsing the insane amounts of Continue reading iPhone Apps and Library Books
Fair Warning: This post has little to do with Dead Poet’s Society. And only slightly more to do with a defense of poetry or a defense of that particular poem read at the inauguration. I’m not sure if any of Continue reading Zombie Poetry That Looks Just Like Healthy Poetry (and Could Very Well Be Healthy and Not Undead)
From Wikipedia Let me just preface this post by saying: I am not a librarian — at least not in any technical sense. I never went to school… never even thought about going to school… actually, before I started working Continue reading Folk Songs and Light Bulbs
Columbus Breaking the Egg (Christopher Columbus) by William Hogarth For a scientist — or anyone for that matter — to proclaim the discovery of a physical thing (a country, a particle, a planet, a new species of fish) has always Continue reading Columbus and a Sea of Blue Ideas
“House of Knowledge” by Jaume Plensa If the internet or blogs were old enough to have what one might call a tradition, we can be sure that it would be predominantly based in retelling what is new, what is breaking Continue reading The Wizard and the Great Zeitgeist