Category Archives: libraries
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Bibliolaters, Bibliophiles, and Booksellers
Leave a commentMay 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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Doodah, Play-Doh, and Art
Leave a commentApril 28, 2019 by libroshombre
Here are three art-related questions for you involving music, sculpture, and painting: are smells and paint-by-number paintings really art, and …
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Jackrabbits, Pecans, and Colophons
Leave a commentMarch 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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Zippy, Joyce, and Margaret
Leave a commentFebruary 21, 2019 by libroshombre
LIBRARIAN COLUMN Contact Greg Hill, 479-4344 January 31, 2019 A recent Zippy the Pinhead comic strip reminded me of how …
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Blue Teeth, Vatican Jocks, and Crossroads of Civilizations
Leave a commentFebruary 6, 2019 by libroshombre
A computer meme has me thinking about libraries even more than usual. There’s much to consider, because libraries and librarians …
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Nazis, Blockheads, and Libraries’ 5 Laws
Leave a commentNovember 24, 2018 by libroshombre
“Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once suggested. “A company of the wisest …
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Puppies, Spies, and Brains
Leave a commentOctober 11, 2018 by libroshombre
Last week two fellow Osher Lifelong Learning students passed along some library-related amusements. One item, a Peanuts strip showing Charlie …
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Florists, Rioters, and Library Heroes
Leave a commentAugust 5, 2018 by libroshombre
LIBRARIAN COLUMN Contact Greg Hill, 479-4344 July 27, 2018 This week I tried not to dwell on the …
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Muscle-wire, Aerogel, and the Library of Water
Leave a commentMarch 22, 2018 by libroshombre
“Mahabharata;” at 90,000 verses, is the “single longest poem in the world.” That’s from one of several library books that …
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Elvis, Casanova, and Dr. Dee
Leave a commentJanuary 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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