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Cheryl LaGuardia

Cheryl LaGuardia always wanted to be a librarian, and has been one for more years than she's going to admit. She cracked open her first CPU to install a CD-ROM card in the mid-1980's, pioneered e-resource reviewing for Library Journal in the early 90's (picture calico bonnets and prairie schooners on the web...), won the Louis Shores / Oryx Press Award for Professional Reviewing, and has been working for truth, justice, and better electronic library resources ever since. Reach her at: claguard@fas.harvard.edu, where she's a Research Librarian at Harvard University.



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Born Free and Equal

May 16, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)


Corporal Jimmie Shohara, photo taken 1943 at Manzanar by Ansel Adams (photo from the Library of Congress'  Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs)I just finished a haunting and powerful digital book available in its entirety at the Library of Congress’ American Memory Project: Born Free and Equal is a “selection of Ansel Adams's photographs of the Manzanar internment camp which was published in 1944 by U.S. Camera along with a text by Adams.” There’s not much that I could possibly say that would add to what Adams achieved in the bo...Read More



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The Art of Manliness May Just Be the Art of Well-Readness

May 14, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Saw this list of 100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library at the Art of Manliness site (a site “dedicated to helping men uncover what manliness means in the 21st century), Portrait of Virginia Woolf, 1902and was struck by several things:

 

  1. 1.  I’ve read an awful lot of these books, and I’m a woman,
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ASP’s Civil War Images Goes Live

May 14, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

President Lincoln and General George B.McClellan in the General's tent, near Antietam, Maryland (photo courtesy of Alexander Street Press)The beta release of Alexander Street Press’s Images of the American Civil War: Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera is now live, and will remain freely accessible for trial use from now until June 30, 2008. You can search the file by Title, Caption, Keywords, Date (e.g. 1863), Place (e.g. Richmond, Virginia), Battle/Campaign/Event (e.g. Overland Campaign), Setting (e.g. Exterior), Photographer/Creator (e.g. George Barnard), Image Type (e.g. Photograph), Publisher, and Contributor,...Read More



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The Multitasking Librarian

May 13, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

Finally! An ancient wall painting (c. 1994-1781 B.C) which appears to depict jugglers (found in the Beni Hassan area, Egypt) I have found the definitive online training tool for those of us who work at public desks: MultiTasking, the Game. Play (or at least try to play) this game before the next time you go on the desk and it will put the multitasking we are called on to do each day in perspective, sort of. Between Sunday and last evening, I spent 9 hours at the reference desk and could have used a clone… or the ability to juggle flash drives and earphones while filling the printer and photocopier and searching and tea...Read More



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Going to the Doctor in Second Life?

May 12, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

An article in Saturday’s Guardian reports that “Spanish health authorities launched a virtual portal through the Second Life website yesterday designed to help young people too embarrassed to speak to a doctor about sexually transmitted disease or a drug problem.” A doctor visiting patients in a hospital, from a 1682 German engravingAccording to the article, “Real doctors will log on and offer advice to their anonymous patients. What both will see is an image of a consulting room with a doctor and a typical patient.”

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