Collecting My Thoughts

 On January 5, 2024, the OSU Libraries retirees got together for lunch at the Morgan House.  This restaurant is in Dublin, OH, north of here...

Thirty-five years ago, I was librarian of the Veterinary Medicine Library at Ohio State. A great job. By 1991-92 we were just learning about...

William J. “Bill” Studer, Director of The Ohio State University Libraries for 22 years, passed away on Thursday, October 14, 2021. Bill left...

Have you ever tried to clean out your storage or files and found out it takes days to go through one drawer or file cabinet or closet? For m...

Even the MSM are commenting (gently) on Warren's claim to native ancestry, and her suggestion that she was given no advantage. I'll ...

on my research skills and a question on how did someone from academe ever become a conservative! And I responded: “ I was completely apoli...

Michael Rectenwald a professor at NYU suggests in a comment on Facebook some academic department titles to replace those old, tired, worn ou...

Spending time with old friends is one of the joys of retirement and my age. However, meeting new people and hearing their stories is fun to...

 In 1993, I was still 6 years away from voting for a Democrat for president, but I could certainly sniff out bias. Came across this let...

Those of you with connections at Ohio State may have visited the web site for Knowledge Bank (OK, maybe not). It's kind of like a treasu...

Today our Conestoga group had a tour of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum in Sullivant Hall on the OSU Campus.  I like libraries...

A little back story on an OSU Today story about the renaming of Enarson Hall.  Dr. Harold Enarson (d. 2006) was the 9th president of Ohio St...

According to John Goodman in his Health Alert Letter: A recent study shows. . ."no evidence that antidiscrimination policies hav...

"The Office of Diversity and Inclusion Bridge Program [at The Ohio State University] assists incoming freshman with transitioning from ...

When I returned to work in the late 1970s at Ohio State University Libraries, one niggling problem was "closet libraries," which h...

Assistant Director of OSU Libraries Jim Bracken will become dean of Kent State University’s University Libraries effective August 1, 2010, a...

"Carol Pitts Diedrichs has been recommended to serve as Director of University Libraries at Ohio State. Subject to approval by the Boar...

And they didn't even mention Ohio State Even Library Journal doesn't call OSUL a "research library." If this were Jeopardy...

What Joe Branin said two years ago about Thompson Library Last week I parked at the Vet Med campus and walked to Bricker Hall to participate...

Photos of the library protest Pretty quiet as protests go. A grad student told me someone from security stopped by and left--I guess a bunch...