Collecting My Thoughts

Alyssa Ahlgren is a millennial who's made a name for herself by being blunt and unapologetically conservative, calling out her generatio...

The Flynn “justice” scandal and the Trump impeachment fiasco. It all points to the top.  Based on any past bad news about Obama, the media w...

The entities in our society who've disappointed me the most during the pandemic are the public libraries and the Christian churches—part...

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...

I've often mentioned at my blog the overwhelming list to the left of the library profession--a study done about 20 years ago said 223:1...

"After reading Mr. Woodward's " Bush at War ," it seems to me that the U.S. officials who either approved or participated...

Today I noticed this in the American Library Association State of America's libraries 2017 report. All the buzz words that can fit left ...

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...

The only librarians he knows are his two cousins and they are very liberal, so he asked me and I responded. Norma demonstrating CD-ROM s...

While cleaning my office shelves, I came across some requests I’d made to the Upper Arlington Public Library in 2008.  These days I don’t bo...

The cover of the slick PR magazine for the Upper Arlington Public Library shows two staffers, a stack of packaged food and boxes, plus a ban...

It's tonight. Always fun to see our old friends. We meet at Wesley Lodge, enjoy a dinner, and usually sing carols or have a program or...

The Library on Mulberry Street McGraw Hill’s Construction video library for Architectural Record has some fascinating projects (some really ...

Ohio's Democratic Governor wants to cut library funding It's hard to even imagine what Ohio's librarians would be doing if Stric...

Libraries out of their depth You probably can’t pray or hold religious services in this library, but you can buy clothing. Call me stodgy, b...

Progressive and radical librarians aren't very different from any progressive and radical fill-in-the-blank folk. They are political f...

Get a church! Yesterday I was reading a chatty, well-paced blog by a self-identified atheist librarian. She was ridiculing the fashion tast...

3726 Ask at your local library Dear Home Editor, I am a regular reader--my husband is an architect, I'm a retired librarian. I note t...

3365 What puzzles me about libraries Keep in mind that I was never trained to be a librarian in a public library (there are four types--a...

2556 This should alarm librarians Although public library staff consider blocking or filtering certain sites to protect children to be ag...