Showing posts with label libraries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label libraries. Show all posts
Thursday, January 19, 2012

When The Good Guys Do The Right Thing, Everyone Comes Out On Top

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Every once in a while, things fall into place and the good guys do the right thing.  Then everybody wins. Yesterday, my copy of The Manu...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Mr. Thoreau, Libraries, and The Importance of Checking Out Sources

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These days, lots of people use snappy quotations in their email signature blocks.   Some use the words of Transcendentalist thinker and pen...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Ruhleben: Germany’s Race-Course/ Concentration Camp for British Subjects in World War One

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Genealogical and historical treasures can pop up online in the strangest places. For example, who would ever think to look on the Harvard L...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

BURN, BABY, BURN! Should We Plan On Bringing Marshmallows To The Forthcoming University Book Burnings?

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Our “short intermission” a while back turned into a rather lengthy hiatus from the blog-iverse.     Meetings, appointments, an unexpected s...
Monday, October 17, 2011

Public Libraries Are Free; So, Does That Mean They Don't Cost Anybody Anything?

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Lots of folks took the time to read the last post here about libraries and books.  And, as I suspected, real books still matter to lots of f...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Everything! We’re Genealogists! We Want Everything! Free! Online! Whaddaya Mean You Pulped It???

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Today was a “book” day.   I’ve been choosing and packing books for our vendor exhibit space at the Connecticut Society of Genealogists annu...
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