We received word last week that on Tuesday our automation software from the consortium was going to be shut down for a couple of hours for an upgrade. That afternoon, an email was sent out that there was a glitch but that the company was working on it, on their end. Hopefully it would be up and running soon. So my cataloger was learning how to do book processing since she couldn't do any cataloging.
Late Tues. we received an update - still have some glitches - maybe tomorrow. Well, I have Wed.'s off so I called into the office to get an update. The software was still down. So ADJ did some more book processing, and did some work on putting her cataloging manual together (good time to do that!).
Now I'm on vacation for Christmas so Thursday I call again and ...it's still down. Well now we're scratching our heads for something to do... Good thing we're shutting down for Christmas break.
Computers! Software! it's the old Love/Hate relationship! We've become so dependant on them that we can't do anything without them. Then we wonder why the "late-adopters" or the "non-adopters" hang back from taking on new technology when the 'low-tech' can be so much more dependable.
Makes me think that the constant push for getting the latest technology in order to keep up with the rest of the world is nothing more than the ole' "keeping up with the Jones" on a global scale. What do you think? Does technology really improve the QUALITY of life or just increase the speed?
Friday, December 22, 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Puns
I love puns and saw a new one that played on the word "snow". For those of you who like crafts or sewing you'll love this. It was a snowman with a cloth measuring tape for a scarf, a pincushion, spool, etc. at his feet. The caption read; "LET IT SEW."
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Too Much?
Following the article at this blog here is a follow up to that thought. I received it from a friend:
I Corinthians 13, Christmas Version
If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, strands of twinkling lights and shiny balls, but do not show love to my family, I'm just another decorator.
If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas cookies, preparing gourmet meals and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtime, but do not show love to my family, I'm just another cook.
If I work at the soup kitchen, carol in the nursing home and give all that I have to charity, but do not show love to my family, it profits me nothing.
If I trim the spruce with shimmering angels and crocheted snowflakes, attend a myriad of holiday parties and sing in the choir's cantata but do not focus on those I love the most, I have missed the point.
Love stops the cooking to hug the child.
Love sets aside the decorating to kiss the husband.
Love is kind, though harried and tired.
Love doesn't envy another's home that has coordinated Christmas china and table linens.
Love doesn't yell at the kids to get out of the way, but is thankful they are there to be in the way.
Love doesn't give only to those who are able to give in return but rejoices in giving to those who can't.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails.
Video games will break, pearl necklaces will be lost, golf clubs will rust. But the gift of love will endure.
Have a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!
I Corinthians 13, Christmas Version
If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, strands of twinkling lights and shiny balls, but do not show love to my family, I'm just another decorator.
If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas cookies, preparing gourmet meals and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtime, but do not show love to my family, I'm just another cook.
If I work at the soup kitchen, carol in the nursing home and give all that I have to charity, but do not show love to my family, it profits me nothing.
If I trim the spruce with shimmering angels and crocheted snowflakes, attend a myriad of holiday parties and sing in the choir's cantata but do not focus on those I love the most, I have missed the point.
Love stops the cooking to hug the child.
Love sets aside the decorating to kiss the husband.
Love is kind, though harried and tired.
Love doesn't envy another's home that has coordinated Christmas china and table linens.
Love doesn't yell at the kids to get out of the way, but is thankful they are there to be in the way.
Love doesn't give only to those who are able to give in return but rejoices in giving to those who can't.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails.
Video games will break, pearl necklaces will be lost, golf clubs will rust. But the gift of love will endure.
Have a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Book Repair
Sometimes this website actually needs to talk about library "stuff" (technical term, there). So even though I did just post a Christmas Carol quiz, I thought I would also post some info about book repair. I just did a workshop on Book Repair earlier this week. So here is some information I put together for those who attended. Maybe the list of resources would be helpful to you, as well.
Library supplies websites (this is not an endorsement for any of these businesses.)
Gaylord Brothers: www.gaylord.com
Demco: www.demco.com
Kapco: www.kapco.com
The Library Store: www.thelibrarystore.com
Highsmith: www.highsmith.com
Brodart: http://www.shopbrodart.com/default.us.aspx
Vernon Library Supplies: http://www.vernonlibrarysupplies.com
Used and Rare Book websites:
...Can be used in evaluating books worth repairing or not; or give repair info.
ACGWeb’s http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/acqweb/pubr/rare.html
Gowan’s Books http://www.gowanbooks.com/book_search/
Enoch Pratt Free Library http://www.epfl.net/slrc/hum/oldbook.html
Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com
BIP http://www.booksinprint.com/bip/
Half.com http://half.ebay.com/index.jsp
Making of America Books http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moa.new/
Theologybooks.com http://www.theologybooks.com/site/index.cfm
Alibris http://www.alibris.com/home.cfm
Advance Book Exchange http://www.abebooks.com/
Book Repair websites
Simple Book Repair Manual
Procedures and treatments
Book Repair (Mid. Tenn. State Univ.)
Book repair bibliography
Book Care and Repair Resources
Care, handling and storage
SULAIR preservation department
More at Sulair
“Perfect Binding”
Extensive illustration of how to repair
Supplies for doing your book repair:
CLEANING SUPPLIES:
Bleach, diluted ½ and ½
Cloth bag with cleaning powder inside
Oil Flow
“Pink Stuff”*
Triple Crown leather cleaner
LIBRARY/REPAIR SUPPLIES:
“bone” folder (white or orange)
Book jacket covers
Book pockets/“flippies,” clear pockets
(due date slips)
Book press
Buckram (cloth not plastic) tape
Butterflies
Corners and Spine Corners
Cutting Board, trimmer
Double stitch tape
Easy Bind
“H” rubber bands
Hard Laminate, & h.l. scraps
Japanese Paper
Large Book tape Dispenser
Micro fiber tape
Norbond glue
Single stitch tape
Soft Laminate
White gloves
MISC. SUPPLIES
(scrounge your kitchen, garage, sewing & craft room, etc.):
Cheese cloths (for supers)
Covered brick
Clean, lint free rags
Disposable dust cloths (for supers)
Grocery sack paper (finer than sand paper)
Knitting needles (for gluing, shaping)
Paper towels
Q-tips
Quilters’ cutting board (self healing)
Quilting thread
Sand paper, (extra fine)
Scrapbooking papers – acid free
Small cheap (art) brush
Small box for spraying
Sponge
Spray Adhesive
String (various weights)
Un-do
Wax paper/ backs of soft laminate sheets
“Yogurt cup” (for water)
OFFICE SUPPLIES:
Gold ink calligraphy pen
“Kraft” paper (or acid free paper)
Rotary cutter
Rulers
Scotch tape
Scissors/shears
Silver ink calligraphy pen
White ink pen
X-acto Knife
TOOLS:
Awl
Cutting board, trimmer
Dowel rods (for shaping)
Drill, small drill bits
Hack saw
Needles
Paring knife
Library supplies websites (this is not an endorsement for any of these businesses.)
Gaylord Brothers: www.gaylord.com
Demco: www.demco.com
Kapco: www.kapco.com
The Library Store: www.thelibrarystore.com
Highsmith: www.highsmith.com
Brodart: http://www.shopbrodart.com/default.us.aspx
Vernon Library Supplies: http://www.vernonlibrarysupplies.com
Used and Rare Book websites:
...Can be used in evaluating books worth repairing or not; or give repair info.
ACGWeb’s http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/acqweb/pubr/rare.html
Gowan’s Books http://www.gowanbooks.com/book_search/
Enoch Pratt Free Library http://www.epfl.net/slrc/hum/oldbook.html
Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com
BIP http://www.booksinprint.com/bip/
Half.com http://half.ebay.com/index.jsp
Making of America Books http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moa.new/
Theologybooks.com http://www.theologybooks.com/site/index.cfm
Alibris http://www.alibris.com/home.cfm
Advance Book Exchange http://www.abebooks.com/
Book Repair websites
Simple Book Repair Manual
Procedures and treatments
Book Repair (Mid. Tenn. State Univ.)
Book repair bibliography
Book Care and Repair Resources
Care, handling and storage
SULAIR preservation department
More at Sulair
“Perfect Binding”
Extensive illustration of how to repair
Supplies for doing your book repair:
CLEANING SUPPLIES:
Bleach, diluted ½ and ½
Cloth bag with cleaning powder inside
Oil Flow
“Pink Stuff”*
Triple Crown leather cleaner
LIBRARY/REPAIR SUPPLIES:
“bone” folder (white or orange)
Book jacket covers
Book pockets/“flippies,” clear pockets
(due date slips)
Book press
Buckram (cloth not plastic) tape
Butterflies
Corners and Spine Corners
Cutting Board, trimmer
Double stitch tape
Easy Bind
“H” rubber bands
Hard Laminate, & h.l. scraps
Japanese Paper
Large Book tape Dispenser
Micro fiber tape
Norbond glue
Single stitch tape
Soft Laminate
White gloves
MISC. SUPPLIES
(scrounge your kitchen, garage, sewing & craft room, etc.):
Cheese cloths (for supers)
Covered brick
Clean, lint free rags
Disposable dust cloths (for supers)
Grocery sack paper (finer than sand paper)
Knitting needles (for gluing, shaping)
Paper towels
Q-tips
Quilters’ cutting board (self healing)
Quilting thread
Sand paper, (extra fine)
Scrapbooking papers – acid free
Small cheap (art) brush
Small box for spraying
Sponge
Spray Adhesive
String (various weights)
Un-do
Wax paper/ backs of soft laminate sheets
“Yogurt cup” (for water)
OFFICE SUPPLIES:
Gold ink calligraphy pen
“Kraft” paper (or acid free paper)
Rotary cutter
Rulers
Scotch tape
Scissors/shears
Silver ink calligraphy pen
White ink pen
X-acto Knife
TOOLS:
Awl
Cutting board, trimmer
Dowel rods (for shaping)
Drill, small drill bits
Hack saw
Needles
Paring knife
Christmas Carols
The semester is all but over. Where did the time go - we just started 3-4 days ago. Oh, no I guess that was 3-4 months ago. Time goes so fast months seem like days. So Christmas is as good as here. To put you into the mood - check this list of disguised Christmas songs and see how many you can get. This is a compilation from some other lists I found plus a few I added myself:
1. Approach everyone who is steadfast
2. Ecstasy toward the orb
3. Listen! The Foretelling spirits harmonize
4. Seraphim from the area above the universe
5. Hey, Minuscule urban area southeast of Jerusalem
6. Quiescent Nocturnal period
7. The primary carol
8. Embellish the corridors
9. I'm fantasizing concerning a blanched yuletide
10. I apprehended my maternal parent osculating with a corpulent unshaven male in crimson disguise
11. During the time caretakers supervised their wooly charges past midnight
12. The coniferous nativity
13. The slight percussionist lad
14. Father Christmas approaches the metropolis
15. Seraphim we aurally detected in the stratosphere
16. The hallowed ebony atmosphere
17. Bleached Yule
18. Singular Yearning for the Twin Anterior Incisors
19. Far Off in a Bovine Feeder
20. Jehovah subdues jovial gentry
21. Frozen Precipitation Commence
22. Proceed and Enlighten on the Pinnacle
23. Query Regarding Identity of Descendant
24. The Dozen Festive 24 Hour Yule Intervals
25. Ancient jovial benevolent despot
26. Monarchial trio
27. Shiny chrome-like carillons
28. Homo sapien of crystallized vapor
29. Perambulating through a December solstice fantasy
30. Aloft on the acme of the abode
31. Auto received chime sounds on date of Nativity
32. Continuously through the dark space
33. Tinkling carillons
34. Equine vehicle produce melodious sounds
35. Bridging the moving water and piercing the timberland
36. Befell during the transparent hour of 2400
37. Joshua - happiness of human longing
Merry Christmas!
And for my Jewish friend in KC, MO - Happy Hannakuh
1. Approach everyone who is steadfast
2. Ecstasy toward the orb
3. Listen! The Foretelling spirits harmonize
4. Seraphim from the area above the universe
5. Hey, Minuscule urban area southeast of Jerusalem
6. Quiescent Nocturnal period
7. The primary carol
8. Embellish the corridors
9. I'm fantasizing concerning a blanched yuletide
10. I apprehended my maternal parent osculating with a corpulent unshaven male in crimson disguise
11. During the time caretakers supervised their wooly charges past midnight
12. The coniferous nativity
13. The slight percussionist lad
14. Father Christmas approaches the metropolis
15. Seraphim we aurally detected in the stratosphere
16. The hallowed ebony atmosphere
17. Bleached Yule
18. Singular Yearning for the Twin Anterior Incisors
19. Far Off in a Bovine Feeder
20. Jehovah subdues jovial gentry
21. Frozen Precipitation Commence
22. Proceed and Enlighten on the Pinnacle
23. Query Regarding Identity of Descendant
24. The Dozen Festive 24 Hour Yule Intervals
25. Ancient jovial benevolent despot
26. Monarchial trio
27. Shiny chrome-like carillons
28. Homo sapien of crystallized vapor
29. Perambulating through a December solstice fantasy
30. Aloft on the acme of the abode
31. Auto received chime sounds on date of Nativity
32. Continuously through the dark space
33. Tinkling carillons
34. Equine vehicle produce melodious sounds
35. Bridging the moving water and piercing the timberland
36. Befell during the transparent hour of 2400
37. Joshua - happiness of human longing
Merry Christmas!
And for my Jewish friend in KC, MO - Happy Hannakuh
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