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[winkingstar]

Today at work, my boss took me and the intern along with her on a field trip. Field trips are always awesome! :) We went with one of the librarians and a handful of interested fellows (as in, "research fellows", not "some random dudes") to the Center for Hellenic Studies (also a Harvard institute). We got a (mediocre) tour of the library there

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[propinquitine]

This is bad because glue is evil.
Hee! What is it about glue that makes it so evil? Does it have, like, solvent chemicals that eat away at books, or tasty proteins that attract bugs, or ground-up horse hooves that make pony-lovers everywhere cry (I'm looking at you, John Sheppard)? I'm curious, because I just remember paste as less evil, more "my delicious elementary school art class friend". :-)

I like to live every day like it's Banned Books Day
That needs to be a bumper sticker, and I need to get a car to put it on. It's kind of a dream of mine, to write a book that someone, somewhere, tries to ban.

[winkingstar]

Re: glue, all of the above! (Well, I don't actually know if it's tasty to bugs, but it seems likely.)

Paste, on the other hand, is an edible delicacy for those "eat-the-paste special" kind of kids. (Though still harmful to books. Pretty much everything is harmful, from a preservation standpoint. Except, one hopes, archival supplies.)

It's kind of a dream of mine, to write a book that someone, somewhere, tries to ban.
No matter what you write, it is 100% guaranteed that someone, somewhere will take offense to it and ask that it be removed from their local library. (I suppose a possible exception is tech manuals or something like that. But surely someone, somewhere is offended by programming codes or something.)

I mean, Where's Waldo? is on the ALA's 100 Most Challenged Books List, for crying out loud. (Because there is a topless mermaid. She is decently covered by her lengthy tresses, but OMG she is nekkid underneath there and clearly that will corrupt the minds of our youth!!eleventy!1!! ... But, you know, isn't everyone

[propinquitine]

OMG, let's ban people too!
Wait, we can do that? AWESOME. I've got a list starting already . . .

And, huh, by the Where's Waldo/mermaid nudity rationale, do these same Concerned Citizens want to ban the Starbucks logo? How do you take your tea -- with one sin, or two? Mmmm . . . depravity . . .

[winkingstar]

do these same Concerned Citizens want to ban the Starbucks logo?

But of course!

Actually that's for their redesigned logo (which I haven't even noticed? I'll have to remember to look at my cup the next time I'm there). I also remember there being a to-do over the familiar green logo in China, though I can't find an article for that. It was several years back.

[fish_echo]

We went with one of the librarians and a handful of interested fellows (as in, "research fellows", not "some random dudes")

I parsed 'interested fellows' correctly, so as I read the parenthetical I was thinking 'well what else would they be?' which lead to me being amusingly startled at the 'some random dudes' portion. I'm not quite sure why I found that so funny, but I did! ::grin grin::

And if you are in a Pegasus archive, you must make sure you do not touch any of the Wacky Ancient Devices. I am not sure your lab would properly care for you if you turned into a penguin or some such! And how would we, your lovely flist, find out about it! Flippers cannot type! Clearly, you must be most careful!

[winkingstar]

Hmm, I think most of the people on my flist are academically-inclined and upon reflection I don't think many people actually use "fellows" to mean "some random dudes" so much these days. So I'm glad my irrelevant parenthetical amused you. :)

I am sure those mechanical stacks have hidden buttons waiting to transform me into a penguin or some such. I always strive to treat those buttons with care!