Open wide...

Alas, I hve been a blog mute. I shall reform my ways immediately.

First the news. Butler no longer has access to the Grove Dictionaries of Music and of Art. Eric Hansen reports from the Kansas Library Network Board that as they began final negotiations for a state-wide subscription a small college library cancelled their subscription. Why pay for something you are about to receive free through the State, right? Oxford reconsidered, raised the price and placed the databases out of reach of the current Network Board.

Well, we do have access to the AP Photo Archive Collection... use your pipeline account if you are off campus. This is EVERY photo that AP has published in the last 150 years. Lincoln - he's in there. Andy Warhol, space shots - yup. John Kerry, President Bush - have at 'em.



Now the books: I've just finished "The Cat's Pajamas", stories by Ray Bradbury. His final selection from a range of his marvelous writing ranging from 1946 to 2004 is a poem in tribute to his favorites: Edgar Allen Poe, Ogden Nash, G.K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, and Bernard Shaw...

..."I wave at shadows, climb aboard my train.
I weep because their likes won't come again.
But this sure thing I know by sounding sea:
Their deaths diminish, words replenish me.
For traveling down the shore in lonely car,
I open wide their books and there they are!"

Open wide some books this week.

Singing off,

Micaela