tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50264702012-01-27T11:58:41.181-05:00Capital City DeskCapital City Notes & Gossip, plus Tales from Library LandLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.comBlogger12481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-39867708484202786522012-01-27T11:58:00.000-05:002012-01-27T11:58:41.191-05:00YouTube
"The Beast with a Billion Eyes," by Lev Grossman (Time, January 30, 2012, pp.39-43)
Grossman includes all the numbers, but here's the gist: "More video is uploaded to YouTube every month than has been broadcasted by the three big TV networks in the past 60 years."* However, the average viewer stays there only about 15 minutes, versus an average of 3 hours of watching television. With TVLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-28732096445916496732011-12-15T19:22:00.000-05:002011-12-15T19:22:30.759-05:00I've been thinking about genre fiction. Pull it out in separate shelving? Cover library book spines with little heart and spy glass and vampire fang stickers? Use tagging on Teen Scene to point readers in the right direction? Beyond those mechanics, there's the stuff I didn't get in library school, much of which seems to have to do with using expressions like "appeal factors" and "pacing."
Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-2348123159581190182011-12-15T17:13:00.000-05:002011-12-15T17:13:40.492-05:00Waiting on Wednesday
I'm a day late, but I feel the urge to play along with the meme that asks, What forth-coming book are you eagerly awaiting?
I did some book ordering today, and Cinder, by Marissa Meyer sounded swell to me, and had good reviews already in place in our book dealer's database. Our Teen Advisory Board kids get a chance to read 2 - 3 publisher blurbs and "vote" on books they'd Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-70158009553039069492011-12-04T19:30:00.004-05:002011-12-05T12:20:10.832-05:00I bought my first string of fairy lights at the Woolworth's in Northampton, Mass., on a solitary trip, a bus ride away from my own college town. I grew up in a lovely/eclectic colonial revival house, in the windows of which we put a single white candle-light each Christmas. Our tree featured a string of big, colorful bulbs. Tiny white lights seemed new, special, mine.
On that same trip, I boughtLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-30032698393459735612011-11-30T17:37:00.002-05:002011-11-30T17:37:54.504-05:00I can neither confirm nor deny that I have had the book mentioned here in my hands.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-6994522581278968922011-11-20T19:28:00.002-05:002011-11-20T19:32:09.627-05:00
My first job after graduating from college was at Richmond's Valentine Museum, where I served as assistant curator for the photograph collection for a couple of years. At about the same time, my brother worked part time at A & N, but not, I think under this sign:
In recent years, the Val has also added this sign, below, from the Mill End Shop to its fine neon collection. The fabric store Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-33640186001050818932011-11-06T15:51:00.001-05:002011-11-06T15:51:28.817-05:00The End!
Book idea #85: work with words.
52/52Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-80713887474009233682011-10-31T19:51:00.000-04:002011-10-31T19:51:20.330-04:00Happy Halloween!
Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-76515408579189407542011-10-23T15:49:00.001-04:002011-10-24T16:09:46.533-04:00An Old Family Recipe(Which is odd, because we're not a very old family)
Cookie Cutter Cookies
½ cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
½ teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 cups flour
Cream the butter and sugar. Blend in the egg and vanilla. Sift the dry ingredients together and stir into butter-sugar-egg mixture with a wooden spoon.
Chill dough.
Using about ⅓ of the Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-22768193156807461932011-10-21T09:35:00.000-04:002011-10-21T09:35:13.017-04:00"Avoiding the Path to Obsolescence," by Steven Smith and Carmelita Pickett. American Libraries, Sept./Oct. 2011.
In short: be nimble, responsive.
Learn from two key failures seen as Blockbuster collapsed:
- "internal constituency . . . couldn't believe those days [whatever they are for your org.] were gone for good"
- "'once decision-makers invest in a a project, they're likely to keep doing Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-66185753394834615802011-10-20T10:20:00.003-04:002011-10-24T16:09:27.063-04:00Triple Threat
Skull Appreciation and submission for Cake Wrecks party and a little gel icing heart. (Does Cake Mate see a jump in sales in each town Jen visits on book tour? After a failed attempt at a tiny homemade bit of frosting, I had to rush out an buy different colors than the lone green I found in the pantry.)Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-3646927308952956752011-10-13T17:53:00.001-04:002011-10-14T10:02:32.079-04:00Ref Desk Random
Enjoying this Audubon game; wondering how to attract virtual birds to CCD. Linkage, perhaps? I see Richmond Audubon's page has a visitor.
We have nice bird books, and other field guides, at this lib. I haven't been asked for one in a while, though.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-27073462615974115912011-10-13T09:02:00.002-04:002011-10-13T09:04:41.001-04:00(function(){var a=document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];js=document.createElement("script");js.setAttribute("id","_ASNB_Birdscript");js.setAttribute("type","text/javascript");js.async=true;js.setAttribute("src",("https:"==document.location.protocol?"https://c768187.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com":"http://c768187.r87.cf2.rackcdn.com")+"/static/birdscript.min.js?Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-42250794129152142782011-10-09T14:48:00.001-04:002011-10-09T14:54:22.677-04:00
Hose Heart
It's a warm and sunny day so I bought yet one more mum and poked around in the yard a bit. These new allergies of mine have been awful for a month now, but I really needed to unblock the gutters in strategic spots. So I did that, but little else. Watered (above) and spent two minutes just observing the monarchs on the butterfly bush. The paper said the drought in Texas could make Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-10331932270460408882011-10-03T21:08:00.001-04:002011-10-04T08:51:45.623-04:00Hidden Heart
On Sunday, I wrapped two gifts for Phil to give to friends. One was a record, and I put it between two pieces of cardboard, masking taped together. A little masking tape heart jumped in on that action. I photocopied the owl and mask decorations from a book of vintage Halloween goodies.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-74864078631006501092011-09-25T19:28:00.000-04:002011-09-25T19:28:14.348-04:00Idea 174: Work only with kitchen tools. A Found heart, rather than a created one, to be sure.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-46398697723228549212011-09-21T10:45:00.002-04:002011-09-21T10:50:18.973-04:00
Idea 237: make a bookmark. And yes, I will slip it into a book when I get to work. Perhaps something by Sarah Dessen or Lurlene McDaniel
45/52Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-18567596196197380332011-09-18T20:09:00.001-04:002011-09-18T20:10:26.226-04:00Handful
Idea 235: use the human bodyLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-87810718960178108742011-09-07T11:59:00.001-04:002011-09-07T14:39:31.670-04:00New Yorker Heart
Book idea 142: cut holes in a magazine page.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-48584410556058772322011-08-30T12:41:00.001-04:002011-08-30T12:43:22.075-04:00Something else that happened in 2003 was a visit from Hurricane Isabel. Not to be outdone, this late-summer brought us Irene. The bottom of this twig heart fell like that; I had to create the top. I'm not sure what plant that heart-shaped leaf blew off of. As we picked up in the yard on Sunday morning (a 90 degree day with hundreds of thousands in metro-Richmond without power? Whew.), I noted Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-56944533040728346272011-08-23T20:41:00.003-04:002011-08-23T20:55:22.750-04:00Wow, graduate school was seven years ago?! So that other earthquake that happened "really recently" in my mind shook Capital City seven years ago.
This year's tremble found me on the reference desk at Dumbarton, trying to prioritize (oh crap: aftershock) ... trying to prioritize: tell people to get out of the aisles of books first or away from windows first? Also of concern: people had been Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-7389231251927775942011-08-21T16:11:00.000-04:002011-08-21T16:11:36.072-04:00
Winged Heart
Couldn't get close enough to this little critter, on the window frame that's over the stairwell for the basement, and a storm's abrewing so the light stinks. What's interesting is that it struck me as a heart as soon as I spotted it.
Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-43953427899566797542011-08-14T19:02:00.002-04:002011-08-21T16:13:04.884-04:00
Garden Flip-flop Heart
Though I adamantly oppose the wearing of flip-flops outside of casual, recreational settings (pool, camp showers, beach house deck), I like them for puttering around the garden or taking out the trash. With the youngsters wearing them all the time, it's harder to get them at out-of-season prices, but these were cheap -- and they are more purple in real life.
40/52
Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-78269932086817449072011-08-12T15:16:00.000-04:002011-08-12T15:16:47.526-04:00Once, I participated in an awareness exercise that included the challenge to complete the sentence "Black fathers ___." And the group the group talked about various images that arise and how one manages oneself in the face of any negative images. At work for the past several years, every single day I see dozens of kinds of dads: black dads, Asian dads, white hipster-dads, Spanish-speaking dads, Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-65385018309502064722011-08-07T13:42:00.000-04:002011-08-07T13:42:46.056-04:00
Tomatoes taste like sunshine.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-31592736513999926572011-08-06T15:30:00.000-04:002011-08-06T15:30:36.067-04:00Nice Things
Trying to cancel out the bad feelings from the 8 minutes of the day when there was no public PC access, I was the only librarian in the building, people needed the meeting room, a boy needed his summer reading prize. The computer outage went on for an hour, but stuff settled down. Mostly.
Good things that happened:
gave 2 summer reading club prizes
made an older gent really pleaseLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-17110336931078739682011-08-05T15:37:00.001-04:002011-08-05T18:37:43.431-04:00"My Check is Enclosed"
(based on idea #42)
I do like visiting Colonial Williamsburg, and have been there several times in the last two years. Probably, I bought something with my credit card, et voila: regularly, I get note cards or stationery from CW's fund-raising wing as an enticement to make a contributions. The charities to which I donate are pretty well set. I am good about being firm. YetLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-69542604801487825992011-07-26T07:47:00.000-04:002011-07-26T07:47:34.783-04:00
Nap-heart to compliment napstache number 256.
Napstache 256!Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-27789693914193223282011-07-17T19:07:00.001-04:002011-07-17T19:08:24.267-04:00Burger Time!
Processed foods + home grown cukes, dill, tomato.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-76676500326698008992011-07-10T16:36:00.002-04:002011-07-10T16:37:35.941-04:00
Suggestion #140: Create a Rebus(365 Daily Creativity Journal)
Depending on your browser, the space between pictures gives you a couple of guesses!
35/52Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-39540996297114047072011-07-09T12:00:00.005-04:002011-07-09T12:03:29.872-04:00Blah
These greeted me this morning when I arrived at work. They belonged to the teen collection. Coincidentally (or not) the teen Suggestion Box brimmed with gems like "worst f***ing library i ever been to," "get some new books you broke bitches," and "f*** you Lol?"
Let's begin with the first one:
Sir or madam, that is not a suggestion, it is an observation, and a shallow one at that, Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-35675160497425443522011-07-04T19:33:00.003-04:002011-07-04T19:40:48.916-04:00
National Park Heart
Hawksbill Mountain, Skyline Drive National Park. Skyline Drive celebrates 75 years this year! We hiked, and enjoyed a really good historical exhibit at Big Meadows.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-23300925902697986182011-06-26T17:28:00.004-04:002011-06-28T10:51:27.181-04:00State Park Heart
We camped out at James River State Park for a few days this week - tubing, sunshine, bird watching. Bandannas are vital camping gear: I packed three -- and found a fourth in the little bag I use to carry my bird book -- for a two-night trip.
Cool nature moments:From inside the tent, I could see the silhouette of a sizable bug, so I crawled out to take a look. It turned out to Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-17624004509335515822011-06-21T09:21:00.001-04:002011-06-21T09:41:09.027-04:00
I (heart) Coffee
Inspired by pirate a day. I thought about spilling mine on the floor, too, as it needs cleaning, but I am home sick today, and I am not sure my achy, snotty self is going to be up to hauling out the vacuum and mop.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-32472572894834568812011-06-12T17:04:00.000-04:002011-06-12T17:04:09.046-04:00
Chalk Heart to welcome family to a cookout.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-44382965428794668442011-06-11T15:26:00.000-04:002011-06-11T15:26:21.554-04:00Reading Notes
"Building a Foundation for Teen Services," by Natalie Houston. YALSA Winter 2011.
- involve and train all staff
- use visual cues to brand the teen area [check]
- Volunteers. . .
- Teen programing cycles: kids often need us briefly, that's OK; reinventing happens
- Keep teen program schedule simple -- This is what JSC was saying. How can we do this? Quarterly signature events (Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-73472532741542338032011-06-05T19:52:00.001-04:002011-06-05T19:53:12.486-04:00
I'm trying to learn to crochet so I can make amigurumi. Let's pretend this blob is a heart!
30/52Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-25817717516242093852011-05-30T19:19:00.000-04:002011-05-30T19:19:35.916-04:00
Snow peas I planted in March are ripe!Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-68626656792779038352011-05-27T10:24:00.001-04:002011-06-01T13:30:31.989-04:00
Circle Heart
For the last 4 or 6 weeks, I've been working on spending a nice chunk of money from the Friends of the Library to redecorate my Teen section. These green circle curtains (fabric scraps, above) were on sale -- but needed hemming. Sewing, I find, is mostly prep work and relatively little actual stitching. I put them up, pinned them up in place on the window (just out of view, sadly, Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-70959392289948914052011-05-20T11:32:00.004-04:002011-05-20T11:36:47.113-04:00
Very Late Heart
Snuck out onto the loading dock on a work break with Principles of Information Systems (Stair & Reynolds, 6th edition) for this one.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-66786056245462905062011-05-16T09:54:00.000-04:002011-05-16T09:54:55.814-04:00What??
Did that caller just say, "Hang on, I'm in class," when I asked for her library card number to place a hold?! You know what: probably. I read to Horoscope Man earlier so I know the full moon is nearly upon us.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-7574050976584913272011-05-08T17:07:00.000-04:002011-05-08T17:07:55.999-04:00
Bellwood Flea = broken heart.
Well, it wasn't that bad, but we didn't find the amazing random thing for the garden that we might have. I am in danger of whining about how much better thrifting and flea markets were back in the day, here. Here's an upbeat way of looking at it: Cool things I remember getting at Bellwood include my ICE sign, a book by Richmond author Mary Johnston, and the black Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-33219111925317862262011-05-01T18:15:00.004-04:002011-05-01T18:16:29.774-04:00 This week's Mulch Heart goes out to all the folks who helped us bring Mulch Mountain down to size!
25/52Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-24995243540905498202011-04-30T12:54:00.002-04:002011-05-01T18:29:10.613-04:00Over dinner last night, I explained to Phil why the last hour at work on Saturdays feels so hectic: that's when (at our location) the extra staff person has gone home, and that's when three or more of these things happen:
a fellow or two with greasy hands come in needing a Chilton's to finish that repair job
a parent comes in dragging a kid by the ear: kid needs 3 book sources about an obscure Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-17082449271550022972011-04-24T20:20:00.003-04:002011-04-25T09:51:49.479-04:00
Azalea HeartLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-25493114951126343322011-04-21T18:39:00.000-04:002011-04-21T18:39:55.387-04:00Reading
I met author Candace Fleming at a Virginia Library Association conference a few yers back. I hadn't read her books, yet (my lib classifies them as JUV). She was receiving a prize and gave a wonderfully funny history-nerd speech. I bought two books, and when she signed them I told her "you're a kids' book-writing Sarah Vowell!" And I meant it.
At my old branch I helped people of all agesLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-63608359782420297762011-04-18T20:30:00.000-04:002011-04-18T20:30:01.506-04:00
Oak Tree Bloomed!Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-32400461339920858252011-04-12T17:57:00.003-04:002011-04-12T17:58:28.718-04:00"Lots of Cats"
Here's the puzzle that goes with Sunday's heart.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-1299883004912455712011-04-10T21:28:00.000-04:002011-04-10T21:28:57.904-04:00
Puzzle piece heart - another idea from the book. After I made this, I had to go ahead and put it together for real. We did tons of stuff today - yard, groceries, awesome outing with Janet and Mark. By the time I got back to the puzzle, it was dark out - so, no picture. I'd lost one piece: the corner with the last half of the artists's name. Anyone recognize it just from this picture? Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-73122978669466364022011-04-06T17:18:00.001-04:002011-04-07T10:28:25.782-04:00In Which a Dose of Perspective Puts Me Right in the Middle of the Road.
Sometimes when I go places, I feel a little self-conscious about my car. It's kinda new (2008) and compared to what else might be in the grocery store or City library parking lot, and kinda fancy (Honda Accord!). Today, I had to go to the Far West End, the richer part of town. I felt self-conscious about my car. It's not Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-9909613374992448872011-04-03T18:15:00.001-04:002011-04-14T09:32:37.654-04:00
Weeds or perfectly good flowers? We've lived here a year, now, and I still haven't decided. I like them in the mulchy areas, but not so much in the lawn. I used to have a blue glass ink bottle that I found in the woods at the house I grew up in that was just right for displaying tiny violet bouquets. Sadly, I broke it when I lived (yardlessly) in Williamsburg. The company that ran that apartmentLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-35630039245371157352011-03-30T08:52:00.000-04:002011-03-30T08:52:27.224-04:00Hearts
I suspect any number of folks are trying A Heart a Day. Here's Jaros Designs. Note to self: be on the lookout for found hearts.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-1795643620302450652011-03-29T20:04:00.001-04:002011-03-29T20:06:18.343-04:00
Tangram: Better Late Than Never?
Being indulgently lazy on Sunday seems to have disrupted my usual goal of posting a heart by Sunday evening. This time, I didn't even think about it until Monday. And here it is Tuesday. So I grabbed our copy of the 365 Creativity Journal for an idea. Idea 65: "Work with only the classic tangram shapes"! Hey - I have a tangrams set right here in the storage partLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-67529148537605341392011-03-20T18:00:00.004-04:002011-03-20T18:04:49.456-04:00After taking the picture for Phil's Picassostache, I played with my food for my weekly creativity. I think food is the medium for many of my hearts. Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-60556048895321595202011-03-13T17:10:00.006-04:002011-03-19T12:38:44.430-04:00DandyWe agreed to be on a neighborhood garden tour in May, so I'm extra-focused on details when we work in the yard this spring. That focus helped me finally begin to see things like the difference in the types of hydrangeas we have.This attention to detail, plus this 365er Noah highligthed, led to this week's heart. There really are a lot of dandelions blooming already, if you just look.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-34754013979450430992011-03-11T11:37:00.006-05:002011-03-11T15:42:21.322-05:00Ref GruntShe wants to print out 114 emails.Looking for Finding Thalhimers.PhotocopierP.C. Cast's new one.The other desk is for check-out.Why can't he right click. -- Who knows, but just go 'round the other way and click edit>copy.PIN is changeme.Daisy Dalrymple mysteries (thanks for the help, NoveList!)Watching dude who is sitting between two of our quickest-to-anger patrons talking on his cell Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-25710804687699434292011-03-07T16:20:00.001-05:002011-03-07T16:21:40.707-05:00Ref GruntQ: I can never remember: which are we - central or specific?A: Ah, um - Eastern.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-86917581252502099232011-03-06T17:15:00.002-05:002011-03-06T17:18:29.792-05:00A bit of a curly heart (am I pushing it if I call it art nouveau?) out of the mixer cord. Also, a birthday cake for Phil.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-75466013019095803302011-02-28T10:05:00.004-05:002011-02-28T11:52:37.787-05:00Ref GruntSorry, no, I can't unfilter the computers in Children's for you.Telling me you haven't been to the library "in over ten years" and asserting your are "just looking to kill time" does not win me over.(I switch to adult side, and forget about working on my monthly report!)Copier.Pursuit of Happyness.Copier.Computer, computer.Printer is where?Add money to print, how?Take the phone chat Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-7073037137998104102011-02-27T18:21:00.003-05:002011-02-27T18:27:22.906-05:00Purple HeartFinally came off the needles today! I was out of practice making this mitten pattern -- the project I made while learning to knit, and that I've made a dozen or twenty times since.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-66901321896955389502011-02-22T13:21:00.005-05:002011-03-06T17:19:25.211-05:00Special Effect HeartThis is just a bit of a cool wrapping paper that I used recently. The first picture I took triggered the flash and -- ugh! -- washed it out. For the second shot, I put my finger over the flash and got a super-red image. Third try, I held my finger off the flash half an inch or so, and that's what this is.15/52Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-33808419234245369692011-02-19T09:46:00.004-05:002011-02-19T10:12:35.581-05:00Matched by Ally CondieAs is the custom in the Society, Cassia goes to be Matched at seventeen -- to by video screen the man she will marry at 21. She's thrilled by the event -- then shocked and thrilled to be Matched with her childhood friend. Being Matched with someone you know is nearly unheard of. So are mistakes, in the Society, but it seems one has been made.Though reminiscent of a slew of Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-87704856071227112182011-02-17T17:56:00.003-05:002011-02-17T18:01:44.702-05:00YALSA article on the Printz AwardLooking at all recipients to date, themes emerge. The books feature journeys, angst, romance and more. The authors also discuss the problem of identifying "best." Article, here.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-51058094384428535852011-02-14T11:55:00.001-05:002011-02-14T11:56:35.383-05:00Happy Valentine's Day!Shortbread hearts, dipped in chocolate.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-39790151463034236202011-02-07T09:36:00.006-05:002011-02-17T18:18:07.294-05:00SearchingTwo interesting articles on Google from the Washington Post point to the same thing: if Google seems to be offering you plenty of hits but few useful answers, content farms may be to blame. Google says it's trying to avoid this pitfall.Michael Rosenwald uses an anecdote to show how Twitter got real, useful answers for a friend, while a Google search resulted in a list of unhelpful links.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-35889088947955168242011-02-05T18:07:00.005-05:002011-02-14T10:52:52.746-05:00Lace-Edged SachetIt's a faux-vintage button, but actually vintage fabric. I pinned the lace very carefully, but forgot to take into account that it has a front and a back, and that I was sewing inside out and backward. . . So, I got to do that bit twice. The bigger heart used to be awesome 1940s curtains. They faded like crazy in my last Park Ave. apartment. I made Christmas stockings from them, Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-68702954454974716622011-01-31T10:04:00.003-05:002011-01-31T10:20:24.185-05:00Covers, Judging Books byThis blog entry features a history of covers for the same book by Lois Lowry. I really like not only the eeek-that's-dated feel, I also like that her publisher seems to have done a nice job keeping up with the styles of the day. And remember, fashion can change fast for kids.Yet, I am still shocked to find that books with terrible 1980s covers have checked out of my lib Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-18606647461570844202011-01-30T09:03:00.004-05:002011-01-31T09:58:00.202-05:00Buttermilk BiscuitsLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-25645387358650301772011-01-27T18:56:00.002-05:002011-01-27T19:06:03.798-05:00A 50ish woman working on an online college degree was shocked - shocked! - to hear that public libraries don't support college-level homework. K came out and eased her way into the event. Later, K mentioned that she's told that woman scores of time she needs a college library or to use our journal database. Sigh.Just after her, an older man wanted "biographies of world leaders" -- as DVDs. Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-35207146392644017652011-01-23T15:37:00.003-05:002011-01-23T15:42:49.972-05:00I bought some different kinds of birdseed today. Maybe we'll get different kinds of birds. Maybe squirrels don't eat suet? Here's a little heart in the spilled seed.Typical feeder birds this winter, more or less in order of commonness:white-throated sparrowhouse finchjuncosong sparrowmourning dovecardinalchickadee nuthatchBlue jays pass through, as do hawks, and a great blue heron flew over the Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-16851099593707746582011-01-22T15:09:00.001-05:002011-01-22T15:09:53.375-05:00A nice primer on zombie books, at Guys Lit Wire.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-44916220852638076642011-01-17T08:37:00.003-05:002011-01-17T08:44:18.292-05:00StashWhile my recent projects are using (not using up) old odds and ends, I quickly found $20 worth of new fun stuff at the fabric and craft store the other day. And I really could use more trims and fringes. Like planting annuals generously, I think applying trim and extras is, for me, the difference between "Oh, that looks nice" and "Wow!"This crafter pledges to work from Mt. Stashmore, only, Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-17963135349715059102011-01-15T15:49:00.007-05:002011-02-14T10:53:11.492-05:00WIP HeartThis needs a tiny photo inserted into that little bangle and some finishing and shaping. It has potpourri in it -- my hands smell like flowers and vanilla, now.(10/52)Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-70348260492577860912011-01-12T10:00:00.003-05:002011-01-19T10:33:19.604-05:00MendingI need to mend this vintage sweater this morning.I can't use the words "mend" and "heart" together without pointing out Mended Little Hearts, an organization a high school friend holds dear.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-54273385539742593402011-01-02T16:22:00.002-05:002011-02-22T13:25:55.107-05:00Thread HeartIn a neighborhood association newsletter.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-29034389579713749262010-12-29T19:50:00.003-05:002010-12-29T19:56:48.694-05:00FOUNDEng 325: Grammar & UsageEng 355: Children's LitGS101: Personal AchievementG A 11 of GS counser [?]The second one caught my eye, first. "Oh, neat. Someone planning to be a teacher. Or maybe even a librarian!" As I type, I think maybe this student thinks kid lit will be an easy A. I hope it's a good vigorous course, instead.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-12977963640260411372010-12-28T11:41:00.004-05:002010-12-28T15:04:04.957-05:00Ref GruntFlying solo first 3.5 hours today. (Well, there is a children's librarian, at, you know, the children's desk.)Large type bestseller foundSteven KingHow to log onComputer classesPhotocopyWhere's my printout?World War II booksSill Missing, by StevensJanet EvanovichComputer classesSeven Days BattleRhyming dictionaryClassified sectionILL returned without sticker - oh, no, he just was using "Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-1528914551982740502010-12-27T08:59:00.001-05:002010-12-27T09:00:16.740-05:00Library Foundw kick JumpPower VPESpeciad AllerkA KicksLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-49070425441751309112010-12-25T12:09:00.001-05:002010-12-25T12:13:22.850-05:00Merry Christmas!Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-84235546602555761882010-12-22T18:09:00.002-05:002010-12-22T18:22:23.205-05:00GeographyI was a little embarrassed to learn the other day that Callao is not just a crossroads town on the Northern Neck, it's also an important Peruvian city. I'm pretty sure I learned this from Jeopardy, and I'm certain it wasn't pronounced like the Virginia town of the same name.I'd always wondered about the town name, and figured it was a family name, or maybe an Indian word. According to Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-14291119590115492182010-12-21T13:30:00.003-05:002010-12-28T14:53:03.729-05:00Candy HeartFor the last 10 - egad, that long?! - maroon has been my "official" Christmas color, and that's one of the reasons I hunt around for these Brach's goodies every year.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-53388431116266158442010-12-20T15:38:00.000-05:002010-12-21T13:44:14.431-05:00Falling Behind my Creativity Schedule!Unless this counts? I followed both folding directions and a template -- oh, and M helped by printing the pie wedges the right size -- so I wasn't creative. But I was "crafty." And I had fun! So there.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-33806509857775389242010-12-14T08:44:00.002-05:002011-02-22T13:26:18.288-05:00Christmas card heart.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-89892769293745596122010-12-10T09:11:00.002-05:002010-12-10T09:51:42.030-05:00Test DrivePhusband and I have work's iPad to test-drive. It doesn't much like the wireless at home -- neither do our iPod Touches-- so I took it out for breakfast at Stir Crazy. This is now the most I have typed on it or the Touch, and it's slow going!I have been pretty happy, however, with the reading experience. I used Google books to download a free copy of James's Portrait of a Lady, and haveLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-76135130818505909372010-12-08T13:51:00.002-05:002010-12-08T14:01:49.081-05:00"Fit Libraries Are Future Proof"by Steven Bell (American Libraries, October 2010. online here)To thrive / survive in our fast-changing times, he offers 12 "fitness" steps. Ones I want to try/use:- engage the user, as in roaming ref, being in the community- fix what's broken: "make finding and fixing what [day-to-day services are] broken part of our routine operations" "Would you patronize a Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-38098531383567868032010-12-07T11:53:00.003-05:002010-12-07T11:54:43.988-05:00More FashionBeautiful peacock-blue cashemere(?) sweater, nice black pants -- and a sizable black vinyl fanny pack worn more-or-less centered on her tummy.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-51370645352223305632010-12-05T09:55:00.002-05:002010-12-05T09:59:35.215-05:00A light dusting of snow fell in Capital City last night!Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-87874517490475921402010-11-28T17:16:00.000-05:002010-11-28T17:17:11.520-05:00Took out Christmas decorations today!Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-59732470678852662382010-11-23T15:17:00.003-05:002010-11-23T15:19:24.417-05:00FashionOne patron is wearing striped leg-warmers (they match her striped shirt) and sandals. She is unlikely to be a dancer.Another has a T-shirt with a seal of some sort, and letters arcing above and below it proclaiming Y'ALL UNIVERSITY."nuff saidLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-15883632881802625682010-11-20T16:35:00.003-05:002010-11-20T16:51:12.135-05:00Spent most of this week's creativity juices making the annual Christmas card scene. In involves robots, felt, and glitter. Here's a felt heart from the scraps.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-71704423632068375452010-11-19T10:01:00.003-05:002010-11-19T10:08:19.798-05:00Plus ca ChangeWhile home sick recently, I read an article in the VHS's journal about outcries against modern art Virginians made at mid-century. Ross Valentine, art critic for the Times-Dispatch, led much of the complaining -- yet he did note that "the furor sparked an interest in art, but it also 'has given some of us something to talk about besides atom bombs, hidden treason, deficit Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-8617431274495336462010-11-18T10:08:00.004-05:002010-11-18T10:16:32.822-05:00Bad Teen LibrarianWhen, in a nyquil-induced haze, I heard the announcement of the National Book Award on the radio this morning, I thought the "young people's" book was The Mockingbirds (by Daisy Whitney), which I remembered from blurbs as being about mean girls -- it turns out it's also about surviving date rape. I fretted people would confuse it with Mockingjay, the last of the Hunger Games Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-32043385790287283072010-11-17T08:38:00.003-05:002011-03-21T16:12:18.102-04:00Northside HistoryCool blog about tourist homes on Chamberlayne! I don't think of this area as "in town" at all, but one card (part way down on this post) describes the house as "four minutes from the business section" and touts the fresh air and whatnot of being out of town.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-44048951674411177582010-11-14T16:38:00.007-05:002011-03-20T18:07:00.503-04:00365 may be more creativity than I can handle, but one a week won't stress me out. How 'bout ... hearts! Spotted this leaf at Dutch Gap on a Veteran's Day outing.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-41252607469992559672010-10-27T17:24:00.003-04:002010-10-27T17:25:55.508-04:00Place HolderI'm not sure why I am not using delicious to save this blurb on interfiling YA genres. I'm just sticking it here, okay? I do plan to take out separate genre shelves -- I mean it.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-40369838836525997402010-10-26T15:44:00.004-04:002010-10-26T16:09:28.284-04:00ReadingEarlier, a mom of two girls in the uniform of their private (Christian) school got my help deciding if Patterson's Angel Experiment would be appropriate for the younger girl. I began with the usual: Well, YA includes books for kids in grades 6 to 12, so it covers a lot of ground. Then we moved to: Let's see what some reviews say. Turns out most said grade 7, and I also read buzz words likeLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-7468363355707866372010-10-08T14:51:00.000-04:002010-10-08T14:52:05.712-04:00The juxtaposition of a particular committee meeting and my reading of an article in WIRED* about the first hackers has me thinking about the idea that information wants to be free. As a librarian, I believe that . . . to an extent. I also believe in intellectual property, and that it's not fair to copy big hunks of someone else's work and present it as your own. I do believe that mechanisms must Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-87670097635488186992010-09-30T18:27:00.004-04:002010-09-30T19:25:56.032-04:00At the New Library At the big library, people often have to wait -- fairly politely and patiently, I will say -- for a public computer to be free. Many like to sit at one work table in particular, sometimes grabbing a book or magazine to look at while they wait. Folks seldom return these items, so I have made wandering over there an excuse to get up, and clean up.Today's find on that table: Name Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-86886219826782694602010-09-24T12:11:00.020-04:002010-09-24T14:04:59.987-04:00Picking SidesPerhaps the best way to see if I am Team Zombie or Team Unicorn is to assess each story. (Note to anyone wanting to rush out and get the book for a young person: there's a good bit of swearing and some mature themes: it's not the next thing to get your fan of Goosebumps books.) (Note to self: can I stack up colons like that?)Zombies vs. Unicorns, Justine Larbalestier and Holly Black,Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5026470.post-86074977909201658852010-08-27T12:50:00.004-04:002010-08-27T15:38:05.504-04:00Ref GruntBook about a battle -- turns out to be a scholarly article, so we don't have it.Copier.Eavesdrop on one woman asking another where she got the Betty Boop purse.Vampirates (his grown up asserted "there's no such thing")Try to track down someone with a huge, terrible cough - turns out to be smallish older woman who needs The Help, in large print.Woman is haughty about having to reserve a Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16791914604898998749noreply@blogger.com0