j’s scratchpad

Yes, the last two pages of “The Sun Also Rises” are amazing.

Amy Disch, a blog reader who recently published an essay about recruiting new news librarians, will be happy to know I’ve signed up to mentor newcomers to the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference through the News Division. It’s one small thing I can do to help recruit news librarians and foster the profession. Many conference […]

It looks like Saturday’s tour of The Tennessean is split into two groups. I’ll probably be going on the later group (just in case anyone cares …). I’ll also magically appear in the News Division suite (wherever it will be) later probably looking for people to go to dinner, if people haven’t already snagged me […]

Another off-topic post: If I had time to read right now, I would be rereading Stephen Ambrose’s D-Day. I read it a few years ago after reading his Citizen Soldiers when I discovered I have an interest in World War II. I didn’t really learn about the siginificance of D-Day until I read those books. […]