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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: Fred Kilgour, OCLC, pants, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Turfan Man, William Gilbert
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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: carl barks, elephants, Jimmy Reed, Keith Richards, Scrooge McDuck
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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: Beverly Cleary, browsing, David Petersen, Guys Read Gals Read, Trina Schart Hyman
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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: Bathhouse Coughlin, Ben Hecht, con artist, Yellow Kid Weil
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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: Andre Norton, Carrot Museum, carrots, June Foray, portamento, recording studies, Rocky & Bullwinkle
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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: Arni Magnusson, Hernanado COlon, Heywood Hill Books, The Epitomes
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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: colophon, Demetrius of Phaleron, Elba, jack rabbit, Nippur, pecan, Zenodotus of Ephesus.
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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: Barbara Gorman, Casanova, John Dee
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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: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
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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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Category: libraries and librarians
| Tags: Casanova, Jennifer Jolis, librarians, libraries, Tyrannio