JJ Drinkwater: November 2007 Archives
It Takes a Village
Caledon notable, the celebrated wit and raconteur, Baron B., recently interviewed our own Miss Scandaroon Beck on the topic of the library. The Baron was monstrous kind to take notice of the library, and Miss Beck was informative in the extreme, in this interview. However, your humble narrator must take issue with my esteemed colleague, in the responsibility she ascribes for what small merit the library possesses.
It is, first of all, because of the generous spirit in which the Residents of Caledon have welcomed and patronized the library, and, secondly, due to the unstinting labour of numerous persons, that we are anything worth taking note of at all. In order to elucidate this very important second point, I endeavor, below, to give credit where it is due.
The Caledon Library is staffed by an extraordinary group of individuals, as distinguished for talent as they are for wit, generosity, and exact understanding of how a library may be created, and maintained
Caledon Librarian Mica Braun - Awarded the Library Militant's Lapin d'Argent for the Harry Potter Book Release event of last June, and her work on the "Prinney" Exhibit. Miss Braun is currently at work for an exhibit on the topic of Love, to be displayed at the Whitehorn library in February.
Caledon Librarian Alice Burgess - Awarded the Lapin d'Argent for the Belle Brezing exhibit, her Machinima,and sundry acts of research to the benefit of the library. Miss Burgess (along with Miss Lydia Bracken, of the Caledon Highlands) is currently preparing an exhibit on the teaching and studying of the works of Mr. Charles Dickens
Caledon Library Technologist Extraordinaire, Dame Kghia Gherardi - Awarded the Lapin d'Argent for the Caledon Essential Works of the 19th Century Poets series, and created Dame Kghia for her work establishing the Marie Curie Memorial Branch library, in Caledon Mayfair. Dame Kghia currently heads the library's Department of Difference and Analytic Engine Technology, manages our Aetheric Presence, and is at work creating the library's Tinyville branch, to be located in the Tanglewood.
Caledon Librarian Teofila Matova - Awarded the Lapin d'Argent for the Reference Collection, which may be seen in the Reading Room, in VictoriaCity. Miss Matova is often to be found at the Reading Room, answering the questions of all and sundry.
Caledon Naughty Librarian Turing "Mr Swoonable" Weyland. Awarded the Lapin d'Argent for the Etiquette Collection. Mr Weyland is also the curator of our new Steampunk collection, whereof evidence may be seen here.
I should be most remiss if I neglected to mention Caledon Library Operations Manager Honey42 Merlin, Caledon Librarian (and Special Collections Curator) Honoria Paine, Caledon Library Code Poet Sir ZenMondo Wormser, and Bookmaker Extraordinaire Mr Aberdon Enigma
We have also been done the Great Favours in the past, more than I can ever enumerate, by sundry colleagues and kind Caledon volunteers.
MIss Jenyca Jewel, Miss Liraz Graves, Mr Roy Smashcan, and Mr Ranulph Graves, have all markedly increased our collections, with their kind donations of texts.
Miss Betty Doyle, Miss AutopilotPatty Poppy, Mr KrisShanks Tadanori, and Mr Jameson Despres have enlightened and delighted us a guest curators on sundry of our Exhibits.
And I must not forget to mention those Colleagues who have made awe-inspiring contributions to the library but who, because of their present commitments elsewhere, are not presently engaged with Caledon Library Projects. The following were awarded the Lapin d'Argent for their services, as enumerated
Pipsqueak Fiddlesticks - for work on the Novels collection
Mab Merlin - for work on the Novels collection
Alanna Hera - for the "Brownings" Exhibit
Cordelia Moy - for her tenure as the library's Assistant Director, her work on the "Prinney" Exhibit, her work with the collections, and her superb Caledon Library Edition of Sir Gawain & the Green Knight (Yuletide 2006)
Should my readers (if any) happen to encounter these folk, about the byways of our fair nation, I hope they will direct their commendations to them, for indeed they are the soul of the library, while your humble narrator can only take credit for its flaws
gentlebeings, your servant
JJ Drinkwater
Caledon notable, the celebrated wit and raconteur, Baron B., recently interviewed our own Miss Scandaroon Beck on the topic of the library. The Baron was monstrous kind to take notice of the library, and Miss Beck was informative in the extreme, in this interview. However, your humble narrator must take issue with my esteemed colleague, in the responsibility she ascribes for what small merit the library possesses.
It is, first of all, because of the generous spirit in which the Residents of Caledon have welcomed and patronized the library, and, secondly, due to the unstinting labour of numerous persons, that we are anything worth taking note of at all. In order to elucidate this very important second point, I endeavor, below, to give credit where it is due.
The Caledon Library is staffed by an extraordinary group of individuals, as distinguished for talent as they are for wit, generosity, and exact understanding of how a library may be created, and maintained
Caledon Librarian Mica Braun - Awarded the Library Militant's Lapin d'Argent for the Harry Potter Book Release event of last June, and her work on the "Prinney" Exhibit. Miss Braun is currently at work for an exhibit on the topic of Love, to be displayed at the Whitehorn library in February.
Caledon Librarian Alice Burgess - Awarded the Lapin d'Argent for the Belle Brezing exhibit, her Machinima,and sundry acts of research to the benefit of the library. Miss Burgess (along with Miss Lydia Bracken, of the Caledon Highlands) is currently preparing an exhibit on the teaching and studying of the works of Mr. Charles Dickens
Caledon Library Technologist Extraordinaire, Dame Kghia Gherardi - Awarded the Lapin d'Argent for the Caledon Essential Works of the 19th Century Poets series, and created Dame Kghia for her work establishing the Marie Curie Memorial Branch library, in Caledon Mayfair. Dame Kghia currently heads the library's Department of Difference and Analytic Engine Technology, manages our Aetheric Presence, and is at work creating the library's Tinyville branch, to be located in the Tanglewood.
Caledon Librarian Teofila Matova - Awarded the Lapin d'Argent for the Reference Collection, which may be seen in the Reading Room, in VictoriaCity. Miss Matova is often to be found at the Reading Room, answering the questions of all and sundry.
Caledon Naughty Librarian Turing "Mr Swoonable" Weyland. Awarded the Lapin d'Argent for the Etiquette Collection. Mr Weyland is also the curator of our new Steampunk collection, whereof evidence may be seen here.
I should be most remiss if I neglected to mention Caledon Library Operations Manager Honey42 Merlin, Caledon Librarian (and Special Collections Curator) Honoria Paine, Caledon Library Code Poet Sir ZenMondo Wormser, and Bookmaker Extraordinaire Mr Aberdon Enigma
We have also been done the Great Favours in the past, more than I can ever enumerate, by sundry colleagues and kind Caledon volunteers.
MIss Jenyca Jewel, Miss Liraz Graves, Mr Roy Smashcan, and Mr Ranulph Graves, have all markedly increased our collections, with their kind donations of texts.
Miss Betty Doyle, Miss AutopilotPatty Poppy, Mr KrisShanks Tadanori, and Mr Jameson Despres have enlightened and delighted us a guest curators on sundry of our Exhibits.
And I must not forget to mention those Colleagues who have made awe-inspiring contributions to the library but who, because of their present commitments elsewhere, are not presently engaged with Caledon Library Projects. The following were awarded the Lapin d'Argent for their services, as enumerated
Pipsqueak Fiddlesticks - for work on the Novels collection
Mab Merlin - for work on the Novels collection
Alanna Hera - for the "Brownings" Exhibit
Cordelia Moy - for her tenure as the library's Assistant Director, her work on the "Prinney" Exhibit, her work with the collections, and her superb Caledon Library Edition of Sir Gawain & the Green Knight (Yuletide 2006)
Should my readers (if any) happen to encounter these folk, about the byways of our fair nation, I hope they will direct their commendations to them, for indeed they are the soul of the library, while your humble narrator can only take credit for its flaws
gentlebeings, your servant
JJ Drinkwater
When your humble narrator gathered, recently, with sundry of his colleagues, there to speak much (and, it is to be hoped, listen more) with regard to the perfectly endless minutiae of our Noble Discipline's Great Task, he chanced to encounter a colleague whom he had to great fortune to know at school.
The said gentleman has made his way in the world, since, and being a inveterate wearer of many hats, has turned Videorgapher, in the service of his institution. Upon the techné, and much else of this, he discoursed ably to an attentive audience -- this last the more remarkable, as it was the final day and hour we were all to confer, and though the spirit is ever willing, the flesh had begun to crave other comforts than the presence of colleagues in strangely lighted halls.
But how well the audience was rewarded for its attention! This undertaking was, he told the rapt crowd, originally inspired by a symposium on Aetheric and Elcetronickal Storytelling. A bricoleur of the first water, he then turned his attention to documenting the esoterica of our tribe, the delightfully titled March of the Librarians, the which may be seen here.
He is, in particular, in some measure responsible for his library's Aetheric presence, and therefore thinks much of how the library may reach out its steadying hand to the young scholars who yearly come flooding through the gates of its parent institution, seeking what they little conceive, needing they know not what. In an act of Informtical kindness, Our Hero used the medium of moving pictures to convey sundry lessons to them, with a salutary economy.
He spoke much of the relevant technologickal devices and gizmos required, and the scratching of pens was loud in the room, and YHN confidently expects to see an upwelling of Zoopraxiscopes and Kinetoscopes and suchlike in the libraries of the future. His oeuvre may be seen here, and the substance of his discourse to us, here
Gentlebeings, your servant
JJ Drinkwater
The said gentleman has made his way in the world, since, and being a inveterate wearer of many hats, has turned Videorgapher, in the service of his institution. Upon the techné, and much else of this, he discoursed ably to an attentive audience -- this last the more remarkable, as it was the final day and hour we were all to confer, and though the spirit is ever willing, the flesh had begun to crave other comforts than the presence of colleagues in strangely lighted halls.
But how well the audience was rewarded for its attention! This undertaking was, he told the rapt crowd, originally inspired by a symposium on Aetheric and Elcetronickal Storytelling. A bricoleur of the first water, he then turned his attention to documenting the esoterica of our tribe, the delightfully titled March of the Librarians, the which may be seen here.
He is, in particular, in some measure responsible for his library's Aetheric presence, and therefore thinks much of how the library may reach out its steadying hand to the young scholars who yearly come flooding through the gates of its parent institution, seeking what they little conceive, needing they know not what. In an act of Informtical kindness, Our Hero used the medium of moving pictures to convey sundry lessons to them, with a salutary economy.
He spoke much of the relevant technologickal devices and gizmos required, and the scratching of pens was loud in the room, and YHN confidently expects to see an upwelling of Zoopraxiscopes and Kinetoscopes and suchlike in the libraries of the future. His oeuvre may be seen here, and the substance of his discourse to us, here
Gentlebeings, your servant
JJ Drinkwater
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