The Archives: Library

Being able to check books out for six months has had an unexpected side effect: instead of reading books, I now hoard them.

It’s not like I’ve stopped reading entirely — …

A few cool things I’ve come across lately:

1. Melodyne’s Direct Note Access, a short video demonstrating their new technology that lets you edit the individual notes of a chord …

Chris Harrison’s Visualizing the Bible site has some fascinating graphs — Bible cross-references (it’s amazing how interconnected the books of the Bible are), a Biblical social network (ever wondered …

Just two little things today:

First, from NorthTemple, check out Strange Maps. Very cool. (Yes, I’m a cartophile.)

Second, I recently started using the self-checkout machines at Provo …

From Nicole Engard via Gerrit, here’s a question someone posted on a forum:

was just thinking. my sister does -alot- of reading, and spends like $1000 a year …

The Library of Congress is now on Flickr. (Thanks to NorthTemple.com for the heads-up.)

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Enter NaBloPoMo. Along with Janssen and Katherine (and if you’re going to do it, too, leave a comment with a link to your blog), I’ll be …

Good news: yesterday afternoon I got an e-mail from the University of North Texas saying I’d gotten the MLS scholarship. ~breathe sigh of relief, wipe sweat from brow, slow heartrate …

I just realized today that at the library, pretty much everyone is on a first-name basis. It stuck out at me because at the university in general, that isn’t …

Today I’ve been going through a dozen or two of the diaries in Special Collections. Most of them are from early Latter-day Saints, since that is of course our …

Last week I mentioned that I couldn’t talk about my Special Collections internship. Well, that’s no longer the case. I realized that perhaps I’d given the confidentiality …

Time for a quickie post. I’d gotten way behind on replying to comments, so my hour of blogging time has turned into an hour of comment-replying time. (Which …

I just got an e-mail from the School of Library and Information Science at the University of North Texas:

Welcome to the University of North Texas School of Library and Information …

I miss science. True, linguistics is a science of sorts, but I mean physics and chemistry and biology and math and all that. The hard sciences. Looking …

On the LibraryThing Thingology blog I found this gem, put together by Michael Wesch of Kansas State University:

As …

On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And through the field the road run by
To many-tower’d Camelot;
And up and …

Whenever anyone says the word “translate” in my Aeneid class, for some bizarre reason the line “and I’ll translate it into Yorkshire for you, till you get the way of …

Yesterday was delicious. I spent an hour or so working on my new novel (outlining it and writing a draft of the first chapter), then read books for most …

Out of curiosity, how many of you have read entire books online? (Etexts, eBooks, whatever you want to call them.) Where? Project Gutenberg? Elsewhere? Did …

So last week when I was trying to upgrade WordPress, I forgot to reactivate the FeedBurner plugin, which means the last handful of posts didn’t show up in the feed. …

I find that when I’m not quite sure what to post about, I decide to write a string with several beads of topics on it. And that’s what I’ll …

Two bits of news. First, my little sister got engaged last night.

Second, I just got an internship at the library, working on Hugh Nibley projects. It’ll only be …

The oddest thing has happened.

When I went to bed last night, I prayed for guidance as to which library job I should aim for, now that my first shot has …

Wendy wrote in about something that’s been on my mind for the past few weeks: book ratings. There are plenty of good books out there, but there are also …

When we left off last night, I was on my way to the library to pick up a copy of Rachel and Leah (which apparently isn’t on LibraryThing yet, …