Category Archives: libraries

  1. Service Animals, Sheepskins, and Marc Antony’s Gift

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    March 23, 2017 by libroshombre

      No one at my library school ever mentioned a number of items that would later loom large. For example, …
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  2. Curious Cats, Stolen Thunder, and Gold Cards

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    February 8, 2017 by libroshombre

      Besides warming your cockles, purchasing a 2-year Gold Card with a $100 donation to the Fairbanks Library Foundation, means …
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  3. Patrons, Volkswagens, and Metaphors

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    January 24, 2017 by libroshombre

      The “word” of the year for 2016 is “dumpster fire,” according to the American Dialectic Society (ADS). A recent …
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    Category: language, libraries, manners, parts of speech, Uncategorized, words | Tags: , , , , , ,

  4. Wang Yi, Mr. T and Carrie

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    January 9, 2017 by libroshombre

      Commands shouted out by the Mr.T In Your Pocket (“Six Helluva Tough Guy Sayings; ‘It’s My real Voice, Fool!’”), …
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  5. Thumbs, Purring Hyoids, and Zsa Zsa Gabor

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    December 28, 2016 by libroshombre

    We should feed our cat “as much as it will eat in thirty minutes, twice a day,” says a book …
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    Category: cats, language, languages, libraries, speech, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  6. Gobbling, Garbling, and Gobbledygook

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    December 16, 2016 by libroshombre

      Why can’t we all get along? After all, every human on Earth is related. A research group at Germany’s …
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  7. Strange Catalogs, Labyrinthine Libraries, and Bookmobiles

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    December 6, 2016 by libroshombre

    Once I visited merry England and unexpectedly found myself inside Chetham’s Library, the first English-language public library in the world. …
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    Category: bookmobiles, books, catalogs, libraries, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

  8. Possums, Trees, and Chairs

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    November 11, 2016 by libroshombre

      Possums and library trees have been on my radar a lot lately. Possums are certainly ugly creatures, but those …
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  9. The Britannicas of the Dick Van Dyke Show

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    November 3, 2016 by libroshombre

      “14 Unusual Items You Can Get at Libraries,” an article in a year-old issue of Mental Floss magazine, included …
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    Category: encyclopedia, libraries, library history, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , ,

  10. Bad Apples, Tall Tales, and Internment Camps

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    October 12, 2016 by libroshombre

      The autumn apple harvest is upon us, so it’s worth remembering that every barrel’s bound to have some bad …
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    Category: librarians, libraries, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , ,

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