Author: Jason Hardin
East Asian Collection
“The most precious treasure is never fully known.” -Song Dynasty poet Yang Wanli (1127 – 1206), “Bubbles On the Water” I certainly think this could be said about library collections….
Library Heroes
Librarians. Stereotypically quiet and introverted, bespectacled and mousy, they perform an admirable and important job, but let’s be honest, they’re pretty boring, right? Well, like people in any profession, they…
Legends of the Library: Restless, Roaming, Rattling, and Reading
Author’s note: The library has suffered very, very few unexplained power outages during my 17 years of employment here. No lie, one of these occurred when I started writing the…
The Official Authorized Biography of the Library Gnome
It was 2003. Oh, what a night. Specifically, in late December back in twenty-oh-three. No wait–that’s an old song lyric, isn’t it? Let me start over. I worked the circulation…