I watched the seasons change firsthand last week while on vacation in Arizona, throwing snowballs on Monday and hiking among desert wildflowers on Saturday. As luck would have it I brought along the perfect book, The Princess Bride, William Goldman’s novel that eventually became a movie. A fantasy featuring everything from true love to magic potions and a [...]
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This column appeared in the Journal on March 7, 2008. Past columns can be read at juliewinkelstein.com
“Then we played horses with my other bestest friend named Lucille…And we all runned to Room Nine speedy quick…” From Sara Park’s “Junie B. Jones and Some Squeaky Peeky Spying”
One of my first assignments as a member of an [...]
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This column appeared in the Journal on February 29, 2008. Past columns can be read at juliewinkelstein.com
“It looks like the ‘transformation’ we seek for libraries and librarianship may turn out to be more of a ‘deskilling’ of library jobs than an enhancement of the profession…” The first sentence in “Blatant Berry: The Vanishing Librarians” by [...]
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On Saturday at the library, a roomful of teenage computer gamers got a laugh out of seeing what used to be state-of-the-art games–Asteroid, Centipede and the like. (What would they have thought of Pong?) Renaissance man Steve Klitzing–who has designed computer games, does 3-D animation, and recently wrote a book about dreams–then progressed to showing more [...]
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Sometimes the library is a casino, and sometimes a local educator is a blackjack dealer. Congrats to the Albany Rotary for transforming the Library/Community Center into a disco and casino on Saturday night March 1, in celebration of Albany’s 100th birthday. Funds were raised for the Albany Education Foundation and other good causes. The Albany Historical Society mounted [...]
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This column appeared in the Journal on February 15, 2008. Past columns can be read at juliewinkelstein.com
“Tyro: a beginner in learning; novice.” From “Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary,” Eleventh Edition
A few months ago I had to take the Graduate Record Exam because I am applying for PhD programs in Library Science. It had been many years [...]
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