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Special & Rare On A Stick: October 2013

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Special and Rare On A Stick. Thursday, October 31, 2013. 30th Year Reflections/60: Next Steps. 8220;The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.”. 8212; J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring. The question Tolkien’s song raises in my mind is: what is “it? If so, what are they? You bet. I wa...

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Special & Rare On A Stick: November 2013

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Special and Rare On A Stick. Monday, November 18, 2013. 8220;‘She was a quiet, brilliant thinker,’ said Diane Geraci, interim codirector of libraries at MIT, who added that Ms. Wolpert ‘worked harder than anyone I knew.’…When Ms. Wolpert wasn’t staying late in her office, she traveled widely giving speeches and sharing ideas with librarians around the world.”. 8212; Melissa Hanson, obituary for Ann Wolpert in The Boston Globe. I felt chastised by my ignorance. Wolpert began work at MIT just as the Intern...

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Special & Rare On A Stick: March 2013

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Special and Rare On A Stick. Thursday, March 21, 2013. 30th Year Reflections/39: Spring Break. 8220;True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. 8221; — William Penn. Breaks, be they “Spring” or otherwise, are good things, true gifts, and worthy of pursuit. We will be better professionals if we find and take advantage of those times to rest the mind. Links to this post. Wednesday, March 13, 2013. The voice becomes sarcastic.) &#822...

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Special & Rare On A Stick: December 2013

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Special and Rare On A Stick. Wednesday, December 25, 2013. 8220;People are at their best when they are able to use their talents and abilities — the traits and behaviors at which they naturally excel. Empowering your people to discover and develop their strengths will position them to do what they do best every day.”. 8212; Gallup Strengths Center. I brought this missing dimension closer to home while reviewing current academic employment opportunities in archives and special collections:. Pieper’s...

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Historia's Books: December 2008

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A blog about Antique and Antiquarian Books. Mostly pictures of, and links to websites about Book collections, news items etc. A supplement to my first blog at Bibliohistoria. Wednesday, December 10, 2008. In this revealing documentary, Stephen Fry. Investigates the story of one of the most important machines ever invented - the Gutenberg Press. But to really understand the man and his machine, Stephen gets his hands dirty - assembling a team of craftsmen and helping them build a working replica of Gutenb...

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Historia's Books: Various Old and Ancient Books - Part 5

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A blog about Antique and Antiquarian Books. Mostly pictures of, and links to websites about Book collections, news items etc. A supplement to my first blog at Bibliohistoria. Monday, March 8, 2010. Various Old and Ancient Books - Part 5. A Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales by Herman Moll, 1724. An authentic 14th century church book of early music. French edition published 1702. English edition published 1632 by John Lichfield at Oxford. Manual of Agriculture, Paris 1764. John Guillim...

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Special & Rare On A Stick: May 2013

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Special and Rare On A Stick. Thursday, May 30, 2013. 30th Year Reflections/46: Spies. 8212; Mick Brown, The Telegraph. There are a few authors I cannot get enough of, whose works I come back to again and again, reading everything in streaks, long evenings, and entire weekends swallowed up by their writing. John le Carré (aka David Cornwell) is one such author and I am currently on a le Carré binge. Over the past few weeks I’ve read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Awaits. After that, who knows? The grit and...

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Special & Rare On A Stick: January 2013

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Special and Rare On A Stick. Thursday, January 31, 2013. New Holmes Items on UMedia. For the latest issue of the Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections. Newsletter I scanned a number of Christmas cards that were reproduced there. But I also found a number of other interesting items in the same batch of material from the Howard Haycraft collection that I scanned as well. Many of these have now been uploaded into the University Libraries' UMedia Archive. For your viewing and research pleasure. 8220;Sta...