Laurabelle's Blog

Last year at exactly this time, I was having the most horrible bus experience I've ever had—two buses drove by without stopping, I'd left my cell phone at home that day (of course), and a phone ate all my change. Finally I used the phone in a restaurant, and Pete came and picked me up. [...]

This afternoon when I walked out of the Service Center, there was a freshly-painted white crosswalk across the mouth of the parking lot over to the (also recently laid) path on the other side. Next to the crosswalk was a van labelled Joe's Parking Lot Services (or something like that) with said services listed below, [...]

A student on the ichat mailing list posted today about an interesting post on a lawyer's blog about the safeness of weblogs. Are you a young professional, excited that your blog gives you the freedom to speak out to a large audience? Well consider what a smaller and more powerful audience (i.e. your employer) might [...]

I have a couple of things to say about the pies Jeff and I made last weekend.

This is a time when I really wish that my blog from the past couple of years were still up, because then I could point to the entries that I wrote last fall, for the required class on information behavior (though I wrote a little bit about it and linked to my class materials over [...]

I finally got around to looking at the proposals from the various vendors who desperately want to sell us (us being KCLS, hah) an ILS. For the two non-library people out there reading my blog, an ILS is a catalog on steroids. I can't tell you what vendors we're considering, because Meg hasn't told you [...]

This morning as I woke up to NPR's Morning Edition, there was a story about a student project at MIT that is effectively a digital music library. One of the developers of this project said that one of his inspirations was the fact that the campus library owns lots of CDs but that most people [...]

Title: Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism Author: Georgia Byng Genre: Chapter book Audience: 8-10 years Annotation: Unstoppable, 10-year-old orphan Molly Moon uses her new-found talent for hypnotism to escape her orphanage for the excitement of New York and Broadway.

This morning Jeff was over here for breakfast, and we had a lovely meal of breakfast sausage, crumpets, and fluffy omelets of onion, garlic, mushrooms, and red pepper. It was lovely, and it would have been even lovelier if I had been able to finish my plate. Even Jeff had trouble eating his entire serving [...]

Went to MSCUA this afternoon to work with my group on our final project for LIS559. The project is to work on some sort of digitizing project on campus, and we got assigned to work on a project to digitize art papers, mostly historical marbled book papers. (You know those pretty endpapers in some books? [...]