News and views from the The book is definitely not dead
At least not judging by the books our students are requesting from campus and I-Share libraries. Nor by the books campus and I-Share users have been requesting from our small-but-mighty collection. Here's a sense of things from today's incoming and outgoing.
Incoming:
Bayesian Epistemology
Two books about the KGB
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Crockery and Glass Journal, vols. 138-139, 1946 (for a staff member)
And for a senior girl who requests books on topics ranging from Shakespeare to the history of shorthand, Experimental Metaphysics and Simple Quantum Physics (which wins the prize for most oxymoron-ish title)
Outgoing:
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America
Ekiben: The Art of the Japanese Box Lunch
Beatles: The Biography
Preface to Plato
From browsing the Crockery and Glass Journal, I have learned what the typical stemware ratio is if I plan to order a gross of the stuff. Not sure why the salad plates are in there, except maybe to provide a sense of scale. I guess there's more to the dining experience than drinking all those cordials and cocktails.
Incoming:
Bayesian Epistemology
Two books about the KGB
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Crockery and Glass Journal, vols. 138-139, 1946 (for a staff member)
And for a senior girl who requests books on topics ranging from Shakespeare to the history of shorthand, Experimental Metaphysics and Simple Quantum Physics (which wins the prize for most oxymoron-ish title)
Outgoing:
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America
Ekiben: The Art of the Japanese Box Lunch
Beatles: The Biography
Preface to Plato
From browsing the Crockery and Glass Journal, I have learned what the typical stemware ratio is if I plan to order a gross of the stuff. Not sure why the salad plates are in there, except maybe to provide a sense of scale. I guess there's more to the dining experience than drinking all those cordials and cocktails.
2 Comments:
Maybe those salad plates are for placing under the fancy desserts served in stemware?
Well, it beats eating off of the table, if nothing else. Speaking of which, they don't mention tables in there anywhere... Maybe they they don't have a table, in which case it beats eating off of the floor, granted that they have a house, because they don't mention houses in there either. If such is not the case, then it beats eating off of the dirt/grass/stuff outside. I suppose you could have makeshift plates made from all those cups...
So yeah.
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