Category Archives: librarians
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Portementos, Carrots, and Rocket J. Squirrel
Leave a commentNovember 19, 2019 by libroshombre
What’s orange and sounds like a parrot? A carrot, of course. Those fat, orange roots are ubiquitous and popular, especially …
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Bibliolaters, Bibliophiles, and Booksellers
Leave a commentMay 13, 2019 by libroshombre
Here’s a story about a pricelessly unique 16th century book that’s just been rediscovered that describes 15,000 other books. Last …
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Confidence, Kissing, and Convicts
Leave a commentMay 5, 2019 by libroshombre
The ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu said we should feign inferiority to encourage our opponents’ unwarranted arrogance. That’s easy for …
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Nazis, Blockheads, and Libraries’ 5 Laws
Leave a commentNovember 24, 2018 by libroshombre
“Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once suggested. “A company of the wisest …
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Elvis, Casanova, and Dr. Dee
Leave a commentJanuary 1, 2018 by libroshombre
Being a librarian isn’t as straightforward as you’d think. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the mother of all dictionaries, …
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Flamingoes, Naked Mole Rats, and Sleepers
Leave a commentAugust 1, 2017 by libroshombre
The age-old mystery of how flamingoes sleep on one leg without falling over has finally been resolved. Biologists 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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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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T, Temple, and Lady Betty
2April 24, 2017 by libroshombre
It might have been learning about Richard “Waterfront” Brown during Osher Lifelong Learning’s Fairbanks history class that got me …
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