I woke up this morning with an overwhelming sense of incompetence. I haven’t really managed to do anything I have recently set out to do: write a scholarly paper, quit smoking, clear up my library’s archives, do some job applications, keep up with this blog. It’s not like I have scads of readers out there [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘review’
May 15, 2008
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 [...]
May 3, 2008
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, [...]
May 1, 2008
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 [...]
April 24, 2008
Art, Activism, Equity review
I recently attended one day of a two-day symposium, Art, Activism, Equity at Pittsburgh’s New Hazlett Theater Co-presented Greater Pgh Arts Council & Women and Girls Foundation (Part of the Women in the Arts Festival). My review is an appropriate first post for this blog.
Art, Activism, and Equity Symposium notes
18 April 2008
I arrived on [...]
