It is the world

At least people in America are aware that
there is a world outside this half of the this continent.
When Bush was president of the USA he only knew
where oil, Texas, the US, and the Fertile Crescent were.
How marvelous to read the speech of President Obama when
he went to Turkey.
Been down under and the bushfires created havoc and yet
when you looked att those trees - burned and all they spouted
new growth. So being an eternal ambivalent optimist there is HOPE.

Comment to the government

http://www.whitehouse.gov/StrongMiddleClass/

Check this out. If you want to comment on the website for the whitehouse.
this is your time. Back in the dark ages of Bush and Cheney this was not possible.
And that is less than 2 months ago.
Vive l'Amerique.

Long time to reflect!

Ok, since this started has a library blog, time has changed,
and the focus of this must therefore be altered a slight tad.
I shall now be writing about various and sundries
which is why I really picked the name.

http://climatepoliticstea.wordpress.com/

I recommend you all to read this blogger's thoughts because
I truly believe she is going to become a Nobel Prize recepient
one day.

How to Weed a collection according to me(ad)

Are you an evolutionary,
or are you a revolutionary,
or are you a simple sane weeder?

An evolutionary weeder would follow
what the newest evolution or trend in library science and
would build on the immediate and take most of the new and
emphasize the modern look with minimalistic view of the shelves.
Half empty means ... maybe people are borrowing books more.
But it does not necessarily contain the whole truth and the patrons
(customers) like the library to be a cozy place where they can hide
in the stacks.

A revolutionary weeder would take all the old dingy stuff
and not keep anything that was over five years old.

A simple sane weeder would do a little bit of both, and keep the
shelves as full as comfortably can be. If space was not issue
a sane person would have a storage for some of the books
that a modern library should have - all the classics and some
seasonal changes, in an ideal world. A sane weeder would get the
new shelves to circulate more by reducing the time the books spend there
to 4 months and see if that made a difference.
If you weed you have to leave some old, some newer, and some for each
segment, the very popular, and the very eclectic, some in different format,
but not always rely on the newer formats - because the book has been around for
quite some time, and we are currently seeing a turnover from tapes to dvds.
Also conserve good classical music, even though the cases look terrible and a
they have a low circulation. This theory follows the sane weeder's philosophy,
namely that one day an eclectic patron (customer) comes in looking for the opera
which we should have, but do not!

Topsy-turvy

Topsy-turvy Internet without boundaries
with only itself as a mentor for everybody
and you can rest assured that if you write
something odd, the world or someone else
will comment on your idiosyncrasies.
A healthy tendency not topsy-turvy

Words we weigh

Eviscerate and inflammatory
are perfectly good words,
especially if you are angry -
hungry for human sanity,
however, that is an illusion
or should I mention delusion,
a concept that is stronger, more apt.
Our self-mockery is the salvation
of the sane and sound.
Is this writer the former or the latter?
You, reader, be the arbiter,
just remember, she who judges less
can also ask not to be weighed herself.
So if you evaluate somebody
then somebody can appraise you.

Boomers beware

If you do not learn something new
everyday - you will not fulfil your brain's need for food.
The dying cells needs to be intellectually stimulated the older you get.
So Boomers beware

To learn is to live
and to live is to learn
and if you stop learning
you will yearn to die!