Category Archives: books
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Bibliothecarial Ignorance and School Boards
Leave a commentJanuary 29, 2018 by libroshombre
Adolph Hitler’s better known than Dr. Dee, Queen Elizabeth I’s one-man think tank, but both were involved in the …
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Books, Books, More Books!
Leave a commentOctober 14, 2017 by libroshombre
Long ago I took up the banner of bibliophile Winston Churchill: “If you cannot read all your books, at …
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Explicating Cussing and Cussing Book Tieves
Leave a commentAugust 1, 2017 by libroshombre
“Cussin’” arose the other day while discussing the differences between the terms “expletive” and explicative,” and this triggered a …
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Skunks, Pack Horse Librarians, and Emergency Rooms for the Mind
Leave a commentJuly 4, 2017 by libroshombre
There’s a set of values held in common by public librarians everywhere: a love of books and belief in …
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Odors, Cursive, and Reading
Leave a commentJune 8, 2017 by libroshombre
Reading a new library book by Keith Houston titled “The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the most Powerful Object …
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Flogging, Peacocks, and Thicknesse
Leave a commentMay 14, 2017 by libroshombre
Teaching an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute class on Patrick O’Brian was more involved than anticipated. Having read (and listened …
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Abhorring Information Banning
Leave a commentApril 24, 2017 by libroshombre
A recent round of reading has left me ready to revive the seventeenth-century British political party known as “the …
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