Tackling the junk drawer

Over the years, as students are doing research and as new books have arrived for the collection, it's become clearer and clearer that the 300s ("Social Sciences") are the junk drawer of the library shelves. Sometimes, it's the fault of the catalogers at the Library of Congress. Years ago, at a previous school, I purchased the…

Blessing or Curse?

Several years ago Doug mentioned that he did most of his reading on his Kindle (he still does whether it's on an actual Kindle or the app on another device) and that one of the blessings was the ability to quickly search for information while reading.  Back in the "good old days" you had to…

Books… so many books…

Thanks to Alex reading, my total last year was 378 Books Read. Of course, I can't talk about those books until the committee meets in February and decides our Top Ten and Vetted Lists (links are to last year's, in case you wanted a taste of what I read in adult books in 2016) -…