Monday, November 19, 2007

On Gratitude

At this season of Thanksgiving, I appreciate not only the many blessings I have in my work, my inspiring fellow librarians, my family, home, and other wonderful things I have received, but also that I can share thoughts in this exciting new method of blogging!

Thanks to all who have commented on my entries.

And welcome to Anna, the first member of my family who will be reading this also!

May all have a terrific Thanksgiving!

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Entertaining Thoughts

There is a narrow bookcase, about 24 inches wide, that I see when I wake up each morning. I keep some of my favorite books in that bookcase, and recently, I have been thinking about which five books would be fun to catalog first.

Although I have been a librarian for more years than I usually admit, my books are kept in no particular order, except that some shelves in the dining room have cookbooks there. I am quite impressed by my son-in-law Jim, who has arranged his and Anna's books by author.

I have decided that the first one to be cataloged will be a publication of the American Chemical Society, Searching the Chemical Literature.