Category Archives: librarians
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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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Bad Apples, Tall Tales, and Internment Camps
Leave a commentOctober 12, 2016 by libroshombre
The autumn apple harvest is upon us, so it’s worth remembering that every barrel’s bound to have some bad …
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Stereotypical Tabloids and Librarians
Leave a commentJuly 8, 2016 by libroshombre
Most librarians, at some point in their professional lives, have agreed with Jordan’s Queen Rania when she said, “There …
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Prisons, Libraries, and Coaches Eating Bugs
Leave a commentMarch 17, 2016 by libroshombre
Several interesting points emerged during my time in the Arizona Territorial Prison, once known for being either a “hell …
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Commonplace Books, Hoosiers, and 11,000 Public Librarians
Leave a commentMarch 20, 2014 by libroshombre
A recent trip to Indianapolis to attend the Public Library Association conference led to copious entries in the small, plain …
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