Category Archives: libraries and librarians

  1. 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: , , , , ,

  2. 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: autobiography, libraries, libraries and librarians, musicians, numbers, public libraries | Tags: , , , ,

  3. 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: , , , ,

  4. 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: , , ,

  5. 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: , , , , , ,

  6. 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: , , ,

  7. 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: , , , , , ,

  8. Elvis, Casanova, and Dr. Dee

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    January 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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    Category: librarians, libraries, libraries and librarians, library history, Uncategorized | Tags: , ,

  9. Dashes, Dots, and Librarians

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    November 17, 2015 by libroshombre

    The beginning of many aspects of the writing arts include librarians. Take Butehamen, the next-to-last chief scribe in ancient Egypt’s …
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    Category: ellipsis, em dash, en dash, hyphen, libraries and librarians, lorem ipsum, pubic libraries, punctuation, Uncategorized, writing | Tags:

  10. Tyrannio the Rapscallion Librarian

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    December 7, 2014 by libroshombre

    “Tyrannio” would be a great name for a library director, and, in fact, it was. His real name was Theophrastus, …
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