Librarywebbie comments on the Guardian article about Bangor University proposing to sack most of its professional library staff: Question is, why is there no mention on CILIP’s website? I hope they are lobbying strongly. I had the same thought last…
Et In Arcadia Ego
In Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln’s Da holy blood and the holy grail, a great, or rather disproportinate fuss is made of the fact that Poussin’s painting Da Shepherds has a tomb with the Latin inscription Et in Arcadia ego (it’s…
Nadgers
Following on from my post entitled Oh dear, it seems I was way too slow in using Google’s cache, or anyone else’s for that matter. However, I’m sure the world will not weep too much, and the one post I…
Oh dear
Aurlog’s server went down at the weekend, making its several websites, including Aurlog and Aurochs.org, unavailable. It is now back and most of the affected sites suffered no loss of files. However, the one affected site was Aurlog. As you…
Why MARC is bad
Bad is probably too strong a word, but MARC has severe failings, most of which seem actually to date from its conception, rather than being exposed by changing practice. That said, the main failing seems to be that it was…
Pope announces England win
The Pope, or the lay preacher for the Unitarian church of Rome as he is now called, has admitted that Martin Luther did in fact have a point. Speaking at the opening of the city’s first public convenience for bears,…
What a cataloguer does all day
In response to a comment by kyrogenix, there follows a dry summary of what a typical traditional cataloguer does with his day. If anyone asks me what I do as a cataloguer, I say that I spend my time describing…
Catching gangsters with tinted windows
The Liverpool Echo reports that new legislation allows the police to “purge” gangsters, who can be issued with warnings if their car’s glass is over 25% tinted, and whose cars can ultimately be crushed (via Transport Blog). I don’t know…
A scholar writes
One of the reasons moving me to collect and print the principal Phoenician Inscriptions is, that I consider the general use of the square Hebrew character joined to the general practice of writing it in the way we call ‘backwards,’…
Railway deaths
Seven people died in the Berkshire train crash at the weekend which made headline news. Nine people die every day on average because of car accidents. From the Tranport 2000 Facts and figures section: In 2001 the total number of…