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Dec 27, 2021

the autofiction of eleanor estes

As the world continues to feel the impact of covid, and we reach the two-year marker of this cataclysm, I keep returning to trusted...

Aug 28, 2021

college tours, college histories

Among the many other things going on this year, this summer has been a whirlwind of college tours. My daughter will be a senior in high...

Jul 31, 2021

my mom, two poets, and a tree

Last weekend we gathered at my Mom’s gravesite for a private, informal memorial. Our group consisted of my family, my sister’s family,...

Jun 30, 2021

my mom, the archivist

I recently started a new job, and now every day as I head to work, I drive by the house on W. Washington Ave. where many years ago my Mom...

May 31, 2021

some things I didn't know about aphra behn

This spring I have spent a lot of time on the Huntington Library website as a way to distract myself from the continued cataclysm we are...

Apr 17, 2021

the darling buds of april: the 2021 shakespeare season

Two years ago this month I was poring over the American Players Theatre (APT) schedule for the 2019 season. APT is the professional...

Mar 27, 2021

professional development from home: zooming the virtual conference circuit

The academic library and information world, and its orbit of disciplines that I follow and/or work in—digital libraries, book history,...

Feb 27, 2021

the incredible, wonderful, ingenious world of artists’ books

Late last year, amid all the wretchedness of pandemic and politics, I was searching for some kind of creative release in the new year. I...

Jan 28, 2021

epic adventure: my 2021 reading itinerary

One year when my husband and I were first married and living in Boston, we discovered a huge warehouse of books called the New England...

Dec 24, 2020

a 2020 christmas carol

One hundred and seventy-seven years ago this month, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was published in London. According to Wikipedia,...

Dec 19, 2020

the citizen petition project: digitizing early settler's voices, 1836-1891: part two

In part one of my blog posts on the citizen petition project I talk about the structure of the project itself: establishing the metadata...

Dec 11, 2020

the citizen petition project: digitizing early settler's voices, 1836-1891: part one

The Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS), located in Madison, WI, among many other estimable and considerable roles, serves as the official...

Nov 15, 2020

hysterical conjugating, or how to learn French during a pandemic

French was the first foreign language I studied. I really liked my French teacher in high school, Mr. Shafranski; he hadn’t actually been...

Nov 1, 2020

why I go to book festivals, and a case for the hybrid book fair

It’s 2:47 p.m. on Wednesday, October 28th, and I’m on the International Literature Festival Dublin website, waiting for the closing talk...

Oct 23, 2020

a curiouser librarian goes down the rabbit hole

Thank you for joining me! I've styled my blog with Alice in Wonderland in mind, so let me tell you about that in this first post. When I...