Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Catching up after 12 years

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T his morning, I was about to begin a library orientation for a graduate-level Psychology course taught by one of my favorite colleagues. Gi...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Was the world our horizon?: coming to terms with feminism and library women's history

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I haven't published any scholarly material since January 2013 and books require an awfully long time between thought and print. So I dec...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

Beginning at the beginning: returning to work after 9 months

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Is it possible to feel disconnected and in-sync, drained and re-energized, frustrated and fulfilled, all at the same time? If so, that i...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

To be continued ...

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At the beginning of April, I was feeling utterly overwhelmed. Looking at my map of research sites , I still needed to finish my work at hist...

The human side of May Virginia Kunz Valencik

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She was described as "half cyclone and half woman" who "thrive[d] on opposition and [swept] it up like a vacuum cleaner....
Saturday, April 26, 2014

In search of Pennsylvania's first county bookmobile

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Earlier this week, I noticed the frequent change in pitch and volume as my compact car's engine growled up and down the " Endless ...

Uncovering the state's role in rural library development: SLP and Susquehanna County

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One of the most difficult articles I've written was a history of the State Library of Pennsylvania (SLP) during the crucial years when ...