Tag Archive | books
Librarians’ libraries
Spotted a fun new meme on Swiss Army Librarian’s blog: the bookshelves of librarians! In his own words: “Librarians are social creatures, right? Despite dowdy stereotypes, many of us are out there Web 2.0′ing it up – among other things, we like sharing our photos on flickr and our books on LibraryThing. So, I thought […]
A heart warming tale of wonderful customer service
Just wanted to share a good experience I had recently with Penguin books. I bought a copy of The Man in the High Castle a few months ago, but didn’t get around to reading it until last week. When I’d nearly finished it, I realised that there was a pretty serious printers error: the last […]
Organising collections
Lyn Robinson (director of the Information Studies Scheme at City University, where I am studying) has an interesting post on her blog about the nature of collections. She talks about how she arranges and rearranges her books (and other collections of objects) in her home, never quite satisfied with how they are organised, as every […]
The Changing Landscape of the Information Profession
I went to an SLA Europe-hosted panel discussion on the 25th November (I know, it’s taken me a while to write this up – dissertation deadline is looming!) on the future of the information profession. There is a full report of the event on the SLA Europe blog, as well as blog posts from Sara […]
Reading habits
Just for fun! Hat tip to Emma at Digitalist for bringing this meme to my attention: Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack? I don’t generally snack while reading – there’s nothing worse than getting crumbs in your book! Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does […]
LibraryThing
Been a bit quiet on the blogging front recently – this is of course because I’ve been messing around on the internet and generally procrastinating hard at work on my dissertation! In moments away from my dissertation work, I’ve also (re)discovered LibraryThing. I set up an account months ago, and didn’t really do much with […]
