Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Year: 2003

  • Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection

    I found a really cool website: The Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection . When you go to the site, at first you won’t think much of it. However, when you begin to look at the dates of the photos it becomes clear that this is an important collection of slides. For example, look at this…

  • I’m going to San Antonio!

    I’m going to San Antonio November 15th to present (with another librarian here at SCU) at the Virtual Reference Desk conference.

  • Holy Blood

    I am reading this book, “Holy Blood, Holy Grail“. The hypothesis of which is that Jesus survived the crucifixtion, and married Mary Magdalene. I began to be intrigued by this idea by reading the popular mystery, “the DaVinci Code“. I have to say, as much as I didn’t really like the DaVinci Code, I am…

  • good work news

    Good news at work: The head of reference, Alice asked me to be the part time science librarian over the summer while molly is on maternity leave. I’m stoked!

  • Childhood friend made good

    My mom mom just forwarded me an e-mail from an old friend of mine. She had sent my friend’s mother some photos of their recent trip down here to Santa Cruz. His mother was so stoked to see pictures of me graduating with my Master’s that she forwarded the link on to her son, my…