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Say a Sad Farewell to Card Catalogs

November 03, 2009

As the re­moval of card cat­a­logs be­comes more com­mon to li­braries whose pa­trons are al­ready be­gin­ning to in­clude many whose fa­mil­iar­ity with the ob­jects is only through his­tor­i­cal lit­er­a­ture it­self, li­braries should take a cue from Uni­ver­sity of South Car­olina’s Thomas Cooper Li­brary and let their card cat­a­logs exe­unt with class.

Jon Kara Shields

Who'da thunk it

November 02, 2009

You need in­struc­tions on how to eat a chicken wing. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been do­ing it wrong all these years.

Jon Kara Shields

Candy Corny

October 30, 2009

I have never much liked this Hal­loween treat, but maybe that’s just be­cause candy corn doesn’t have a face like Pep­peridge farm Gold­fish, or gummy bears. All that is about to change.

Jon Kara Shields

Asterix and Asterisks

October 30, 2009

As­terix comic turned 50 yes­ter­day. I think its a great lit­tle pub­li­ca­tion and gave two of the comics to my brother‐in‐law last year for Christ­mas. But check out the his­tory of the as­ter­isks and obe­los for which the char­ac­ters were named.

Jon Kara Shields

Sad Neglect

October 30, 2009

This site has be­come sadly ne­glected… I will work on that.

Jon Kara Shields