What if Hollywood remade ‘Desk Set’?

An information overload.
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One of the texts in my online studies for Library and Information Technology reprints a photo still from “Desk Set,” a 1957 movie starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. In it, Hepburn is the director of a corporate research library.

Tracy’s character has been brought in to install a super computer that can supposedly look up any fact quicker than Hepburn’s staff of reference librarians. The movie ends with victory for the librarians when the computer blows a fuse.

I was reminded of that film this week during my reading on reference services for one of my Cuesta College courses. “Libraries in the Information Age” by Denise K. Fourie and David R. Dowell state that reference librarians and technicians must increasingly help patrons evaluate information for credibility.

Nothing like life with an adolescent cat

Starfire

Our home is blessed to be occupied by a new cat! Starfire, a young cat, needed a home and filled a void caused by the death of our cat Elizabeth.

Cat-tested, cat-approved halter top

T-Bird, #47, Generation T

It was only fitting to photograph Starfire for Project #47, “T-Bird,” from Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt by Megan Nicolay (Workman Publishing, 2006). Starfire was extremely interested in the strip I cut to serve as the drawstring for the halter top. She darted out from under the bed to pounce on it.

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Generation T: Fabulous find at the library

‘It’s a Cinch,’ Project #8, Generation T

I checked out a really neat book from the Middletown Library: Generation T, 108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt by Megan Nicolay (Workman Publishing, 2006). It demonstrates how to reconstruct T-shirts into various other things.

For Project #8, “It’s a Cinch,” I cut open the front of my “V-Day” T-shirt just off center, stitched it back together with an approximately one-inch casing on each side. I threaded a drawstring up one side and down the other.