Technology

We have a scanner at work, of which no one has received training. Usually I just tell the students, who are pretty tech-savvy these days, to have a crack at it. I decided to do the same myself today. It was fairly easy and I was even able to edit my scanned item using Adobe Photoshop on the desktop. However, when I inserted my flash drive into my desk computer it shut down. Huh. So, I rebooted and tried to open the file again. It said "no file selected" and the disk was empty. I wanted to post this cute little comic (seen below) from the newspaper. Being the information savvy librarian that I am I just went to the newspapers web edition and did a screen shot. So, technology both failed me and made a quick recovery.

I thought this was really cute and it shows the general perception of librarians: elderly, glasses, bun, "forceful" about library property. Anyhoo, work has been pretty busy. Students have been asking reference questions and I've taught a few classes this week. I'll be traveling to our Augusta campus next week so that will be another nice change.

I saw Bride Wars which I had high hopes for but fell flat in the humor department. I also saw Hellboy II and Notes on a Scandal. Both were pretty entertaining but I wouldn't really recommend either. I watched The Thief Lord last night which is based on a young adult book I read a couple years ago for my international literature for young adults. It was lame but I remember that I had a really hard time getting interested in the book. I finished the 5th book in The Last Apprentice and there will definitely be another book. Hooray! I think I'll try some non-fiction next. Unpacking is nearly complete but I'm very unmotivated at this point. The 5 boxes that needed to be unpacked last week still need to be unpacked this week. Organizing and hanging of artwork will be the last thing to happen.