Today is my Mom’s birthday. My Mom is a Flickr user and too far away for me to take her out to lunch [plus is booked solid for meals today] so I decided to make her a tag card on Flickr. Feel free to contribute, especially if you speak a non-English language.
on smelliness
I don’t really know what to make of this news article, except that a lot of people sent it to me. In Seattle it was easier to deal with patrons who smelled because there was a place where homeless people could take showers right up the road. You could refer people there if they had odors that bothered others. I think this quote is the telling one.
A strict code of conduct, officials argue, is needed to ensure one patron’s right to use a public library doesn’t infringe on the rights of another.
Maybe it’s just me, but after reading this article, doesn’t this seem like what they meant to say:
A strict code of conduct, officials argue, is needed to ensure one normal patron’s right to use a public library doesn’t infringe on the rights of another not-normal patron. [emphasis mine, of course]
I have this to say about smelliness. I was in a bad car accident a few years ago and was taken to the hospital. I had been on my way back from camping and was neither looking nor smelling my best. I was not planning on getting in an accident. When I was released [and I was fine, thanks for asking] I got my records from the hospital and they noted my appearance as “tattooed, unshaven, smelly.” Not “unwashed” but “smelly.” I can’t help thinking, as I did then, whether this observation affected the quality of my care.
hi – 07mar
Hi. If you can read this you’re reading the new RSS feed and all my redirects and handwringing and very polite emails to tech support paid off. My short to do list at this point is to make a larger-print version of this site on the web page, catch up with my backlog of links and move over the static content from the old site. All permalinks are working. All old permalinks are working. All 1000+ posts are here and searchable. Let me know if anything isn’t working for you.
Happy Birthday Catalogablog
In many cases, I read library blogs to sort of see what people are doing and figure out what the buzz is. With Catalogablog, I actually learn things about librarianship each time I check in. Happy Birthday Catalogablog.
overviews: blog people, podcasts
Overviews: podcasting, “blog people“