Archive: Library category
Being able to check books out for six months has had an unexpected side effect: instead of reading books, I now hoard them.
It's not like I've stopped reading entirely -- I'm in the middle of Shannon Hale's Book of a Thousand Days right now (and really like it) -- but ...
A few cool things I've come across lately:
1. Melodyne's Direct Note Access, a short video demonstrating their new technology that lets you edit the individual notes of a chord -- from a recording. It's like Photoshop for music. I have to admit that I'm still not completely ...
Chris Harrison's Visualizing the Bible site has some fascinating graphs -- Bible cross-references (it's amazing how interconnected the books of the Bible are), a Biblical social network (ever wondered how popular David and Solomon really were? ;)), and the distribution of Biblical people and places. Thanks to ...
Just two little things today:
First, from NorthTemple, check out Strange Maps. Very cool. (Yes, I'm a cartophile.)
Second, I recently started using the self-checkout machines at Provo Library (since the circulation desk pretty much shrunk to the size of a postage stamp), and wow, I love them! ...
From Nicole Engard via Gerrit, here's a question someone posted on a forum:
was just thinking. my sister does -alot- of reading, and spends like $1000 a year on just books alone. most of them she reads just once then never looks at again. is there any kind ...
The Library of Congress is now on Flickr. (Thanks to NorthTemple.com for the heads-up.)
Not the whole thing, of course, but they have uploaded around 3,000 public domain images. Why? ...
Enter NaBloPoMo. Along with Janssen and Katherine (and if you're going to do it, too, leave a comment with a link to your blog), I'll be posting every day in November. Granted, I pretty much do that anyway, but this month there'll be nary a ...
Good news: yesterday afternoon I got an e-mail from the University of North Texas saying I'd gotten the MLS scholarship. ~breathe sigh of relief, wipe sweat from brow, slow heartrate back down to normal, etc.~ Actually, I found myself strangely calm about the whole thing. I don't think ...
I just realized today that at the library, pretty much everyone is on a first-name basis. It stuck out at me because at the university in general, that isn't the case -- you call professors by Prof. or Dr. or Mr./Mrs. or Brother/Sister (we're talking BYU, of course :)) ...
Today I've been going through a dozen or two of the diaries in Special Collections. Most of them are from early Latter-day Saints, since that is of course our special interest. For example, there's one of William Clayton's journals (written in pencil, very small, very hard to read), ...
