A patron came in the library for the first time, looking for information on a particular career, including magazine articles. I walked her through the process of getting to our magazine article database and searching for appropriate articles, then the same for our career search databases, then showed her an especially good online sources of information from the federal government, explaining that she could either use the library computers or a home computer, but that she would need to apply for a library card to use the databases outside the library building. I then presented her with a written list of the resources I had explained to her

Her response to this was “So, I didn’t even need to come to the library at all?”

Sigh.

It’s a mug shot from Australia in the ’20s, but it should be an album cover. I think he’d be a singer/songwriter, very thoughtful.

A review of a book by a Buddhist writer finding the ideal (unknowing) spiritual teacher in the woman with Alzheimer’s she cares for made me wonder: is it ethical to gain enlightenment from a spiritual teacher who isn’t aware of or able to consent to teaching you?

A recipe for Orange Juice Surprise:
Shake the orange juice jug to mix the juice, find out that the lid is on less securely than you thought it was. Surprise!

A nifty collection of camera-trap images of wildlife from Smithsonian. How do you know they’re the full unedited collection? Ocelot balls.