This made my day…(via The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator)
hilarious
Read the full article on The Daily Beast website, “Last Letters From World War I Literary Heroes.”
English poet Wilfred Owen’s last letter to his mother. Dated Oct. 31, 1918, Owen was killed on November 4, one week before the Armistice.
The Ransom Center holds a Wilfred Owen Collection of World War I Poetry, which includes some family correspondence as well.
Wow, this is incredible—and Owen’s poetry is shocking, affecting, bewildering, powerful. One of his best-known poems, “Dulce et Decorum est”, he actually composed in a letter to his mother, written one year before this one, introducing it by saying, “Here is a gas poem done yesterday, (which is not private, but not final).”
Patience is a virtue… or at least doesn’t ruin your catalog..
I am very glad that I have learned to take baby steps when dealing with batch loading records. The ten test records from our authority vendor that I thought would be perfect (in that they were overlaying, okay with the OCLC number, and generated zero errors in the test) turned out to have a number of problems - duplicate call numbers and new, unwanted item records in particular. I am super happy that the dude at the help desk has been patient with the half dozen emails I’ve already sent him on the previous issues, because he’s going to get a million more.
Also, load table training. Some day….
First proper thunderstorm of the season…
JEREMY HEFNER HITS A HOMERUN! OUTTA HERE!
First big league hit is a home run. He is a pitcher.
Oh, the Mets. You make no sense and I love you.
Libraries Grapple With the Downside of E-Books
Story on e-books and libraries and how they’re coping with ebook circulation, looking in particular at Queens Library, vendors like Overdrive, and the relationship between libraries and the ebook publishers.
