This afternoon I used Google Books to help answer a readers’ advisory question. Keywords from the patrons’ question turned up in a 1971 issue of Horn Book, the children’s literature review. Google’s misshapen snippet showed part of a summary of the book, but nothing more. I took the elevator to the sub-basement, got lost, asked [...]
So this post dovetails with a conversation Shaun and I have been having about gender and comic heroes and science geekery. Southern Fried Scientist is trying to answer this question here - Why do heroes so rarely hold advanced degrees? And why are villains so often among the highly educated? And there are bigger cultural questions, [...]
command-f is a conversation about libraries and everything else written by a few like-minded (but not alike) librarians.
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