Alchemical Thoughts

Have a safe and happy holiday season 2009

2009-12-23T15:43:24Z

(Crossposted from my professional blog, The Gypsy Librarian). I will be heading out to celebrate Christmas and the holiday season. This is a quick note to let my three readers know that blogging here will pretty much pause until next year. It is ...

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QotD: My Favorite Movie Quote

2009-12-11T22:43:23Z

What’s your favorite movie quote of all time? There are a few, but I think one of my favorites, and the one that I would include here is this one from the film The Godfather (quote via imdb.com): Don Corleone: Tell me, do you spend time with you...

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Some resources about the bailouts and economic stimulus in the U.S.

2009-12-10T20:32:21Z

I may use some of these links as part of a short post later in my library's blog. For now, I am parking them here for reference purposes. As always, if any reader out there finds them helpful, feel free to explore. This list is in no particular or...

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Some notes on privacy and academic libraries

2009-12-10T16:33:14Z

The issue of privacy in academia has been on my mind recently. Our systems analyst was recently making the rounds checking our computers, and according to him, it was to "tighten certain controls" so they (the IT people and the administration) cou...

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Webinars my boss makes me watch: is third time the charm?

2009-12-08T17:15:23Z

Once again, I have to sit though another webinar that my library director made me watch. I will say right away that I hope this was some kind of free event because if we (read the library) paid for it, we should be demanding our money back. The ti...

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Is digitalization really killing these things? Maybe.....

2009-12-03T22:46:26Z

I recently saw this list of "21 Things That Are Being Killed Off by Digitalisation." In my usual semi-snarky way, I would like to go over the list and see what is dying, what is dead, and what is not quite dead yet. So, here is the list. I will sa...

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Facing World AIDS Day 2009

2009-12-01T22:31:07Z

I do this because someone has to help fight ignorance and educate others. I do it because I am a librarian, and as such it is my mission to provide accurate, reliable information to my patrons and readers. I do it because it is the right thing to ...

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Once again, my boss makes me watch another webinar (but still nothing new)

2009-11-18T19:44:24Z

This is another note on webinars that my boss makes me attend. For some reason, our boss is on a roll in terms of making us watch webinars related to academic libraries. Actually, yesterday she mentioned that one of the reasons was that, since som...

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Preliminary thoughts, with notes, on the demise of the library

2009-11-09T21:54:41Z

There are days when I wonder if my profession as a whole has a death wish. Not only do outsiders rail on and on about how libraries need to be closed, how they will "evolve" into new spaces (that have nothing to do with the mission of an actual li...

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On bad bosses, part 3

2009-11-06T18:16:58Z

Once again, I have put aside enough posts on the topic of bad bosses to make a post about it. These are mostly food for thought. I am sure someone could write some substantial post on bad bosses as they related to libraries and library administrat...

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