Category Archives: libraries and librarians

  1. Roger, Venn, and Confiscius

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    November 2, 2025 by libroshombre

                We swim in a sea of symbols: acronyms, emojis, icons of all sorts, etc.  As old Confucius declared, “Signs and symbols …
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    Category: abbreviations, libraries, libraries and librarians, library associations, pirates, politicians, politics, symbols | Tags: , , ,

  2. Reasonable Resolutions, Personal Transformation, and Starting Over

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    January 23, 2024 by libroshombre

                An app called Blinkist costs $12.99 a month and is designed to help you achieve your New Year resolution …
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    Category: book reviews, books, librarians, libraries, libraries and librarians, race, races, racism, rare books | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  3. Lynchings, Black Holes, and Horny Toads

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    May 3, 2023 by libroshombre

                There’s been some interesting overlapping on my radar that involve lynching, black holes, horny toads, and the frightening rise …
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    Category: animals, Black history, book banning, books, censorship, crime, libraries and librarians, library school, public libraries, school librarians, school libraries | Tags: , , , ,

  4. Inventors, Scientists, and WorldCat

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    April 23, 2022 by libroshombre

                You won’t find me arguing with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s claim that “One must be an inventor to read well. …
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    Category: interlibrary loan, inventors, language, languages, librarians, libraries, libraries and librarians, library history, linguistics, scientists | Tags: , , , , ,

  5. Band Names, Numbers and Elephants

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    March 19, 2022 by libroshombre

                The Lone Tones is the name of the acapella doowop group in Austin that I’ve sung with for forty-plus …
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    Category: libraries and librarians, libraries, public libraries, autobiography, musicians, numbers | Tags: , , , ,

  6. Browsing with Mimi, Trina, and Beverly

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    April 8, 2021 by libroshombre

                My daughter Mimi was eight the winter of 1997 when she received a letter from Trina Schart Hyman, the …
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    Category: books, bookshelves, libraries and librarians, public libraries, reading | Tags: , , , ,

  7. Cons, Curses, and the CBC

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    December 24, 2020 by libroshombre

    Once Marco Rubio said, “Donald Trump is a world-class con artist. He conned all these people that signed up for …
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    Category: corruption, curses, librarians, libraries and librarians, public libraries, Uncategorized | Tags: , , ,

  8. Portementos, Carrots, and Rocket J. Squirrel

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    November 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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    Category: animation, food, librarians, libraries and librarians, school librarians, school libraries, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , ,

  9. Bibliolaters, Bibliophiles, and Booksellers

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    May 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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    Category: book buying, books, bookstores, cartographers, librarians, libraries, libraries and librarians, library collections, library history, Uncategorized | Tags: , , ,

  10. Jackrabbits, Pecans, and Colophons

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    March 28, 2019 by libroshombre

    Reading in the newspaper about Dubai having “the largest artificial tree in the world” harkened me back to the first …
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    Category: art, libraries, libraries and librarians, library catalogs, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , ,

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