As an addendum to yesterday’s post, here are some cow Christmas cracker jokes, of which there are many. Based on a trawl of the web, I think it is fairly authoritative. I can’t guaratee they have actually come from a…
Merry Christmas
Tradition is traditional at Christmas so, to continue the tradition of previous years, I offer you more Christmas cracker jokes! This year there are three, one of them written by me. A special prize* if you can work out which…
Queen of cheese
To us it is a glorious theme To sing of milk and curds and cream While cataloguing some poetry books I came across a book called Pegasus descending : a book of the best bad verse / edited with notes…
Milton and Viz
Every now and then, one finds a perfect combination of complementary reading material. Some time ago, I pointed out the happy combination of Saul David’s The Indian Mutiny followed by George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman in the Great Game. Now, I…
Library pr0n
Tom Roper points out a series of photographs of beautiful libraries. I did mean to at least pick a favourite, but it is too hard: they are all so breathtaking in different ways, such as the ceiling of the Abbey…
David Bailey
My photographic talents have finally been recognised. Schmap chose this picture of the Multangular Tower in York to grace the 3rd edition of their online guide to York. This picture was of course taken during the GPSOE’s visit to York…
Sandy on the web
Sometimes for the sake of it and sometimes not, I have been creating Sandy, Bedfordshire sites all over the web on social networking sites. I started with Facebook, as documented earlier; I have also created a group on Flickr, as…
No evidence on bibliographic issues
Lorcan Dempsey makes a much overdue point: In all the discussion about bibliographic data and catalogs, and about their advantages or disadvantages when compared to other approaches, it is striking how little appeal there is to actual evidence. I’ve noticed…
Public library cataloguing savings
Tim Coates thinks the unthinkable about cataloguing in public libraries: Fifteen million pounds each year to re-catalogue books that have already been catalogued. If I understand him right, he wonders why all the public libraries in the UK are all…
CILIP advocacy
After using the word advocacy a lot (but being rather shy about it), it seems that CILIP are actually going to do some public advocacy of the library profession and support the quality of the public library service. They have…