I read an interesting piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education today about the Scholars at Risk network. (Unfortunately, access to the piece is restricted to subscribers only.) The Scholars at Risk network places scholars, researchers, and other academics from unsafe circumstances into institutions in America. (They plan to expand to other countries [...]
I went to the spring Librarians’ Assembly at Harvard yesterday to learn about the efforts of Harvard librarians to collect international materials. I was intrigued by all three speakers, partially because I don’t know much about collecting international materials and was thrilled to learn more about it. The last librarian to speak, Andras [...]
Vernica and I met at the Governor’s School for the Arts in South Carolina while we were in high school. We were both students in the creative writing program.
I moved out here about three years ago. Sometime during my first year, I began wondering if anyone else I knew lived in the Boston-area. [...]
I was amazed last night when halfway through the Weblogs group, Vernica turned around and said something like, “Yeah, you’re right. Your hair doesn’t look purple.” Now, the comment in itself seems harmless, but that meant she’s been reading my blog. Someone reads my blog! I went through the range of [...]