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This is what I live for

Posted by Reed on November 27th, 2007

Dear Slightly Smelly Patron of the Library of Glum,
When I tell you we do not have that particular journal in the library, I do not mean we do have it, but I’m not telling you where. I do not mean we could have it, and it would take me a minute to run down the […]

Nothing to be done

Posted by Reed on November 20th, 2007

I’d be posting on the 20th, in fact, I am writing this on the 20th, but BT has run gleefully away with the internet connection and who can say when you will be reading this.
[This applies in any case, as if, God forbid, this is all still up in ten years time, someone could […]

I have homework due tomorrow

Posted by Reed on November 19th, 2007

Library of Congress Subject Headings make no sense. I spent the morning wrestling with the definitive four volume 2005 edition, and they make no sense. Also, they make no sense to anyone else either.
I know, I know, I should have done my homework last week. But just think, if I had, I’d no longer be […]

A reading meme - Libraries!

Posted by Reed on November 15th, 2007

Cheerfully, shamelessly, swiped from Charlotte.
1. Do you remember learning to read? How old were you?
Like Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird, I never learnt to read. My mother remembers playing with flash-cards with me when I was two or three, but I simply do not remember not being able to read, or being taught in […]