Reading, Writing, Research

Monthly Archives: May 2011

Libraries preserve the past
libraries

Libraries preserve the past

In previous posts, I have stressed that the library is more than a warehouse for books and other physical materials. …Read the Rest

The librarian’s job
librarians

The librarian’s job

According to an old stereotype, a librarian is a socially awkward woman with bad hair who checks out books to …Read the Rest

FYI: initialisms in OED
writing

FYI: initialisms in OED

What have texting and its conventions, abbreviations, and shortcuts done to our language? And what does it mean that some …Read the Rest

How can libraries survive? Apparently better than bookstores
book business

How can libraries survive? Apparently better than bookstores

Not long ago, I noticed two articles on the same page of the local Sunday news paper (News & Record, …Read the Rest