Cool Fish Library

Salmon Fry

Today I toured a library with certainly the most comprehensive library relating to steelhead, salmon and trout on the west coast, and probably in the entire country, StreamNet Library operated by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.

This is a fascinating collection of both older hard copy items which are in the process of being digitized and electronic resources. Although the collection is non-circulating, it is completely open to the public. It isn't necessary to call Regional Librarian Lenora Oftedahl first, but it might be good idea, as she might have ideas about other materials that are in the less-accessible storage as staff continues to settle in to their new digs at 700 NE Multnomah, near Lloyd Center in Portland.

Funding for the StreamNet Library is provided by the Bonneville Power Administration, which is only fair, since it was their dams on the Columbia River that endangered native fishes and threatened Native cultures and communities.

Pagination Playhouse

My husband Daniele, despite all his inherent wonderfulosity, is, frankly, a terrible teacher. (Or, in current Eduspeak, my learning style and his teaching style conflict). Some time back, he demo'd Scribus, an open source equavalent to Adobe InDesign pagination software. Daniele's method of instructions is essentially "Here! Watch me do something fabulous!" I was always impressed but when left to my own devices, at a loss to know what to do with a blank screen and blinking cursor.

I sought out and worked through a few tutorials on the web, but it wasn't enough and the info wasn't sticking in my head. Then last week, it occurred to me to copy the front page of my local paper, or at least use it as a template and take off with my own pseudo-publication.

This method turns out to be the perfect learning method for me. I  seek how to do perform a task as I need
it. Things go wrong and I have to do it over and over until it's right. Yes, I know I'm rather OCD in this regard. It's what makes me one bitchin' editor. At any rate, my sample project is completed and the sense of revelation I have is no less than when AOL Help Desk supervisor Sean Astin showed me in 1997 that I could right-click on any web page to steal ...er, view code.


Volume 1, Number 1 of The Daily Dribbler. Bon Appetit!

Beloved Readers

Yes, all 2 of you...

After much sneering at and condemnation of the #Twitternado, I finally succumbed. After considering my thoughts so profound that 140 characters could never suffice to express them, I discover the medium actually suits me to a T. Hence, what appears to be abandonment of this and my other blog, Hakuna Fritatta.

Nancy Pearl, Librarian Action Figure

Those of you jonesing for my missing pearls of wisdom can find them at my Twitter feed and new Wordpress blog. I'll be getting more into library and intellectual freedom issues again now that I've re-hitched with ALA and get their journal and several library listservs. BTW, ALA Midwinter in Seattle was awesome. So nice to be amongst my own kind again.

Oh, I Get It. "Different" = "Harassable"

Quixmar is going to have to start watching his back. Seems to have forgotten that not only did conservatives lose the election only one short month ago, they're also dropping like flies.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/quixmar/supreme-court-gay-marriage_n_2218441_211941294.html

quixmar
“A hopeless cause. If the homosexuals are victorious, they will toute the "Decision of the Court, Law of the Land" crap, and then they'll move on to their next step which is to declare straight people as the "broken toys." If they lose, I don't see them going back under their rock and you'll hear the hew and cry of "HOMOPHBES!"”



PrunellaC "they'll move on to their next step which is to declare straight people as the "broken toys."

So basically, you're terrified of being treated as they have been. Telling.
posted Dec 7, 2012 at 22:06:30
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quixmar Bahahahahahaha! What a clown. They are treated how they are because of their own doing. Sheesh! They come out, tell everyone they're "gay" and then get upset that people are not as happy as they are.



PrunellaC

“"their own doing"

Will keep this in mind for all further reading of rightwad posts. TNX”

Can Religious Belief Be Tested?

I think it very likely can be. The problem, however, is that faith will prove to be most copious in all the wrong and most inconvenient places.