new book

Now that I have finished reading all the available Song of Ice and Fire I’ve been having a hard time figuring out what to do with my life. A work (can’t call it a book, since it’s four and probably should be six) like that keeps you involved for awhile and leaves you feeling a [...]

stereotype

I was reading Maura Seale’s article, “Old Maids, Policeman, and Social Rejects: Mass Media Representations and Public Perceptions of Librarians” today and thought that maybe a quick weigh-in on the librarian stereotype ‘issue’ would be a nice way to get back into the blog groove.
I’ll say first that I think Seale has the right idea [...]

surplus

In that marvelous way that the web can get you to something you weren’t expecting find I ran across “Gin, Television, And Social Surplus” earlier today, and it has been on my mind. (Research ethics aren’t holding things together for me today, I’m afraid….)
I’m intrigued by the underlying idea of this discussion that there are [...]

sleepy

My brain is dead. I woke at 5:30am and couldn’t get to sleep couldn’t stop obsessing couldn’t stop the madness! I’m so tired and the Lonely Librarian’s Library is so quiet that I feel asleep at my desk for half an hour.
I’m not doing a great job with the daily postings, but no sense in [...]

minimalia

Taking a break from the academic discussions of the last couple of days, my head is fuzzy. And the Lonely Librarian is especially lonely with not a one person coming in today. My short Saturday shift ends soon, and I can walk out into the gray warm humidity of a Pittsburgh Spring. Not so bad, [...]

racing

I’m very hungry, but I think I have to post something if for no other reason than that I didn’t yesterday.
Yesterday I spent some hours reading a couple of criminology-related articles that deal specifically with ethics in randomized trials. In one article Weisburd argues that randomized treatments in crime and justice are a moral [...]