Dewey the Decimal Maker
Posted On Dec 18 2008(sung to the tune of Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer) You know Dana and Dempsey and Avram and Nutter. S.R. and Putnam and Berman and Cutter. But do you recall The most famous librarian of all? Dewey the Decimal Maker had a healthy love of tens. He saw the scattered book shelves through his metric decimal lens. All of the other book worms still liked keeping books on chains. They knew a book’s location– kept it locked up in their brains. Then one fateful shelving day a cataloger caught the bug Dewey with your decimal scheme 1-3-5-point-3 …
The Happiest Place on Earth
Posted On Dec 5 2008Nope, I’m not talking about the blogosphere. I actually just got back from my first famliy trip to Disney World since I was 12 years old. It was a great place to spend Thanksgiving, actually. Since my return, and given the dearth of blogs posts on Hectic Pace lately, I have been seeking some sort of meaningful metaphor for libraries out of the experience. I know that at some point there were libraries out there signing up for the Disney cutomer service training. But I somehow can’t really picture all librarians shaving their facial hair, smiling all the time, and …
Bring Out Your Dead
Posted On Nov 3 2008Yes, I am still here. I have plenty of good excuses for not blogging lately, but not many good reasons. 3 trips in 2 weeks, including one to Germany Near obsessive-compulsive You-tube and election coverage watching in what was left of my spare time Actual time spent reading what others are writing In that last category of what others are writing, I could not help but notice the gem that appeared in Wired Magazine declaring that blogs are now dead. Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug. …