Articles tagged with library
Why Do I Bother Using the Library?
I grew up using a library. I remember being about four years old and getting my first library card. Every couple of weeks, I would bring back several new books, read them, and then the day they were due, we made our way back to check them in and ch
It's Raining, It's Pouring, But There Is No One Snoring
Because I live alone, there is no one snoring on my couch. But I can hear the rain coming down in buckets outside of my window. I thought it was supposed to clear up a bit, but it sounds pretty steady. Today I had to go to two libraries--my local li
May I Air a Complaint?
I am sure that someone may jump on the bandwagon and admonish me for complaining. Of course, I suppose that I "deserve" it, considering how others see my calling for less negativity as "not allowing for complaints." Nonetheless... My complaint?
Guess Where I Am?
I am taking a few minutes of my day to say, "Hi!" I am not at home. Nor am I posting from my phone. (Notice the punctuation, capitalized letters, formatting, and proper spelling.) You may have now guessed. I am at my local town library, posting from "Pu
The Secret of the Abandoned Library
I loved going to the library when I was a child. I loved that I was was able to learn, and hear stories from the librarians. They taught me, as books did, about history and future, family and society, and that there was so much more actual knowle
Late Nights Watching Orange Is the New Black
I finished the entire second season of Orange Is the New Black in the wee hours. I only started to watch it Friday night. I will not share any of the show, as I know there are many who have yet to watch it, and do not want to give away any spoilers.
Self Help books
If you visit a #bookshop or a #library you will see plenty of self-help books. They are on every conceivable topic and promise to change your #life for the better. They promise to increase your #happiness, your #health or help you become a better parent.
A Night of DVD Television for Me
It is nearly 7 p.m. and I have not been out of my townhouse all day. Truth be told, I have not been downstairs. Even more embarrassing, I have stayed in bed all day, with few exceptions. I have not even eaten anything all day. Chalk it up to exhaustion, n
Ten Things from the Local Library Today
In my county, our library system is pretty good, compared to some I have seen over the years. Our local branch is rather small, but they are much more organized and can access a lot of resources through out the county system. Today I came home
Started Watching a New Series Thanks to My Local Library
I do not watch a lot of television. In fact, I am thinking of cancelling the cable portion of the package I have with Internet and telephone. A friend encouraged me to start watching series television that I can get through our library. He was the o
Journal 07-07-2015
Good morning or whatever part of the day it is for you. Today is Tuesday, July 07, 2015. The temperature is 65.1°F and the humidity is 84% at 5:14 a.m. PST (-8 GMT). Weather Underground shows sustained winds at 0 mph with gusts of 3.1 mph. It was
A long day out ended with a USA birthday celebration at the Nancy Kay Holmes Library
At 11am this morning I had a dentist appointment. My daughter was upset because we would be missing the summer reading program today at our local library. I found out at my dentist appointment that I had my first cavity in an upper molar. I am very disappo
My Day at the Library
I was surprised to hear that Downton Abbey Season 4 was available for me to pick up this morning from my library. I had placed it on hold a few months ago. I have also learned that I am next in line for the Boardwalk Empire Season 4, so that was the
Bachelor of Library and Information Science
I just put this article under the random category because I do not have an idea where I have to put this. And finally, after a long preparation of paperwork for the new courses offering in our institution this school year 2015-2016 is finally going
Today's Libraries Are Fantastic!
I recently heard the following exchange in the Biography section of my local library: "Hey, Simon, good to see you! What are you doing here?" "Uh, I'm at a LIBRARY. I'm here to get BOOKS." I'll admit that I found the exchange amu
Today is a Sunday: I am the only personnel in the library
Supposedly today should be a family day. But since I have a scheduled work during Sundays, I do not have a chance to have a family day. Saturday is my dayoff. So, it means I should have a family day during Saturdays. But still I have important matters
Wow great it is sweat Sunday afternoon
Currently based on my timezone it is a somewhat cooler but not because of the airconditioned units installed in the library. Actually those units are not yet operational because this building is not finish constructing. Based in my estimation, it will wo
Busy that much
Hi there. Although, I am already online for about four hours already but did not have a chance to interact a lot because I am too much busy in classification and cataloging of thesis and dissertation materials available in the library. The College Presid
The Festival of Book Reading
Right now thanks to Goodreads I've been in a massive reading challenge and so far I'm just over half way through the challenge. I set a goal for 125 books and I'm 63 books into the challenge. I swear it does keep you in check and makes sure that you get so
Yay for a Productive Day!
I just finished up all my assignments. I was actually running a spell/grammar check on my final assignment of the night when my cut-off alarm went off at 10:30pm. I'm so glad I was done, and I'm glad there was enough work today. I met my usual quota, which
Back to the Library
I began using my local county library several months ago. I had not been active in using a library system for several decades. I remember going to the library when I was a young child. My mother would take me and we would pick out several boo
Are you afraid to read? third part
Not only that, there are daily newspaper subscribed by the library but the students have no time to read what is/are happening to the surroundings. As well as, selected departments including the library created a newsletter in order to tell the reading pu
Diary – Monday 23rd March 2014
A busy day today, with strong emphasis on revisiting the Manchester city centre based interviewer who gave me my stage two of three interview to give him documents needed for processing my application for work at the airport. The documents
Diary Friday 20th March 2015
I started the day by checking to see if my library books were due back today or next Friday only to see that I should have returned them on Tuesday. I have a modest overdue fine to pay today. Grrr. My much needed work history confirmation slip sti
Diary – Tuesday 10th March 2015
A very worrying start to the day as my bank card told me my usually as regular as clockwork fortnightly welfare payments hadn’t gone to my account but they were just delayed not stopped. They normally transfer automatically at midnight but for some r
Diary Tuesday 3rd March 2014
A day when my diary ought to be just a blank line – but I am determined not to miss a day out. I have been asked, if not summoned to make a new studio ident for my radio show, which is the old one on a new day and the boss seems to exp
Good morning Friday
About an hour ago, I reported as early as 6:30am for work. Why? We have our weekly flag raising ceremony for employees. Out of four library personnel for my department, I am the only one reported for the flag raising. The reasons are because of health cond
I am very happy
I am very happy that we talked already. Who I am pertaining to? It is exactly 59 days, the last encounter between my young library assistant and my leadership. We are not talking each other before because of failure of communication. There were some issues
Diary Tuesday 24th February 2015
I had a tedious morning writing out job application letters. One job I don’t qualify for anyway was sent to me with mandatory instructions to complete is lengthy application form, and send it back to my job brokers for their approval before they post
i already reach the $10
As i open my account today because i am luckier than i think most. I more richer than $10.02 as of this writing. Although not that enough to be richer than $20. Anyway, i am praying for the best of PersonaPaper and i am looking forward with the best to all
i am all alone tomorrow
Starting tomorrow, my library assistant will be on leave until Saturday. But this library assistant is not the one whom had a gap with me. Then, tomorrow is the scheduled dayoff of my assistant librarian. So, that means, me and the other library assistant
There is a CCTV in the library
To give additional security measures, the Administration installed CCTV cameras at strategic location of the institution I am working with. And one of the selected strategic areas is the college library. Me as the librarian is very happy to accept the said
Diary – Wednesday 4th February 2015
A hectic day today, with a short visit to the theatre preparing to stage my show later this month, and contacting a new cast member to take on one of the roles in my radio drama. From there, I hit the Central Manchester library for a few hours, be
overtime for the moment
I am now in the overtime mode. Why? I am doing a task that i need to accomplish. I created an indexing database. This database will serve me to encode journal and magazine articles that my library has. I started encoding these past few days and looking for
I volunteered at my local library and didn't shelve 1 book!
For those of you that don't know, I have a major in German. I started my German language training in high school, all four years. Then when I went to college, I took a German class every semester for five years. I don't know that I ever felt 'fluent' but I
at exactly 9:01pm, i received a text message
I am currently charging my mobile phone here at home. And as i checked a while ago, i received a text message from an instructional officer of the institution that i am working for. According to her message, there will be a flag raising for faculty and non
why there is a monthly holiday here in Bulacan, Philippines?
As of this moment, my lunchbreak so i decided to post for a while. Since, today is a holiday, my library staff are not around. Only the carpenter foreman and his helper are here with me in the library to install the shelves that i asked the management to i
finally after three days of not posting
Today is a holiday here in Bulacan, Philippines. My library staff are not around because of the holiday but me i am here working for the benefit of the library department. Anyway, that will not affect me too much of working even on a holiday. Actually, thi
happy that slowly we talked
It is aleady 8:48pm, 13 hours plus from my last post. I am very glad that my library assistant that we have a gap the past few weeks, we already talk a while ago. Actually, we did not talk formally, yesterday, when i took my lunch, i said to her, i am goin
Diary – Friday 16th January 2015
A day heavily spent preparing for my Saturday presentation on broadcast live community radio. With a special guest taking part to promote the region’s biggest beer festival, and a new presenter taking up the slot right after my own, I knew I
Diary – Wednesday 14th January 2015
A quite sedate day writing at home, and later at the library in Manchester City Centre which was very busy as the students have started back at the colleges and already have their course work assignments to study. I left the library to dreadful we
Diary – Friday 9th January 2015
Lots of minor errands to do; library visit, preparing my radio show, chasing after guests invited to my birthday bash in February who haven’t ASAP’d. Going out in really horrible weather is becoming the norm at present. I felt li
Diary – Thursday 8th January 2015
I had to claim welfare in the morning, my first regular fortnightly claim this year and since my Xmas work contract ran out. It went easily and I was back home by 10 AM. In the late afternoon I called in the library, picking out a few graphic nove
