Among The Jumbled Heap

Book Objects – Wallace Stevens

Luke came into two handsome editions of Wallace Stevens. The Friends of the Library Booksale at the Fateville Public Library is a place where you can buy tattered paperbacks from Patterson to Grisham and first-edition hardbacks from the likes of Stevens. (Used book sales in university towns are always a good place for a find.) The book featured in the photos is one Luke kindly let me borrow. Transport to Summer was originally published in 1947, but the edition pictured here is from the s...

Bring Out Your Dead

R.I.P. Donald and E. Lynn I am the database jockey for a medium sized library. My title is Technical Services Supervisor, and my tasks are legion, but one of my primary jobs is to attend to the library's catalog. A library catalog is a giant relational database that connects information about authors, books, and ultimately people like you and me who use the library. In this role of database jockey, every year I have the gruesome honor of tallying up all the dead authors and entering the...

Free Stuff!!

PC Magazine has a list of recommended free software. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2271644,00.asp It's freeware, but not necessarily Open Source. I would not have picked all the things they pick. I especially hate the Google Toolbar. I've found it to be clunky. It takes up too much memory, slows things down, and is always, ALWAYS, collecting information about how you behave online. That's the part I hate the most about it. I intend to check out the Maxthon browser right away ...