So I got a random call this afternoon, as sometimes happens, and in short Dolores Huerta was visiting on campus, someone told her about our Scifi collection, and they came over for a tour. (She adores Asimov's work, also loves Frankenstein, Fahrenheit 451 and Alice in Wonderland.) She was also all a-geek when I mentioned our Mesopotamian clay ( Read more... )

Just got to negotiate the deal on a Lloyd Alexander archives and a WWI manuscript. I feel so BAMF.

Today we have a group of visitors from Lafragua, a five hundred year old Mexican University, here to do a presentation on their digitization projects and look at our premises. (They are also one of our partners in Los Primeros Libros.) Anyway, Anton asked Todd and I to do one of our collection spiels and meet with them, so we did. Anton has also ( Read more... )

Got in the better part of a massive donation today (the rest should come Monday), so some of my colleagues helped me move over 130 boxes of books and stuff I'm going to be plundering through ( Read more... )

Sooo I just got my first box with my name on it as the Scifi Curator at work ( Read more... )

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Not that I'm a member of any. But if I WAS. ...


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