Category Archives: libraries

  1. Frustration, Anxiety, and Guff

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    October 19, 2015 by libroshombre

    “I was an accomplice in my own frustration,” the English playwright and screenwriter Peter Shaffer once wrote, and to some …
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  2. Pullation, Holophrasm, and Cekoslovakyalilastiramadiklarimizdanmissiniz

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    October 19, 2015 by libroshombre

                People who look for them find that new, amusing, and useful words seem to pullulate.  A.Word.A.Day, that fount of …
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  3. Unstoppable Change, Ain’t Onus, and Catalog Cards

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    October 17, 2015 by libroshombre

    “Change,” as Benjamin Disraeli pointed out, “is inevitable. Change is constant.” Ain’t it though? There was a time when “ain’t” …
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  4. Love, Mistakes, and Marilyn Monroe

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    July 23, 2015 by libroshombre

                So tell me: Who wrote the book of love? You might say the 1950s doo-wop group, the Monotones, the …
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  5. Lazy Men, Ugly Men, and Human Books

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    July 16, 2015 by libroshombre

    It’s hard to peruse Dorothy Johnson’s “Bedside Book of Bastards” without musing ruefully on mankind, specifically the man part. True, …
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  6. Little Words, Ngrams, and Emoji

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    July 7, 2015 by libroshombre

    “It’s the little details that are vital,” according to legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, who added, “Little things make …
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  7. Pronouncing, Vocabulary Building, and Murals

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    July 3, 2015 by libroshombre

    “Pronunciation Errors That Changed Modern English” was a fascinating TheGuardian.com article posted by David Shariatmadari in 2014. He noted that …
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  8. Vampires, Toilet Etiquette, and the Queen of Sheba

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    June 23, 2015 by libroshombre

    We’re forest dwellers, and our annual war with the carpenter ants has begun. This year’s invasion put me in mind …
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  9. Babel’s Library, People’s Horsebreeder, and Cellular DNA

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    June 8, 2015 by libroshombre

    When Larry McMurtry, author of “Lonesome Dove,” the Great American Western Novel, was 18 and first entered the Rice University …
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  10. Paying Homage to Marie of France, Edna of Abilene, and ILL

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    May 12, 2015 by libroshombre

    Let’s pay homage to our library’s interlibrary loan system (ILL). Through its services we can borrow practically any book on …
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