In 1622, the famous poetand clergyman John Donne wrote of Virginia in this fashion, describing thenew colony as the nation’s spleen and liver, draining the “ill humours of thebody . . . to breed good bloud.”

The years between 1607 and 1610 are biographically murky. Theletters are hard to date and hard to decipher, and the best historicalrecords we have are of jobs that didn’t happen. He failed to get aposition in the Queen’s household in 1607, and there are referencesin the letters to his application to jobs in Ireland or, even moreremotely, Virginia, but neither came to anything, if they were everserious prospects to begin with. It’s equally likely that they were anattempt on his part to look industrious, both to his friends and tohimself; neither Ireland nor Virginia were at all desirable places atthe time.

The information neatly typed on the cards – which library workers sometimes supplemented with handwritten notes on front and back – includes details that in many cases are not typically part of the electronic catalog system, Virgo, that the University Library switched to in 1989. At the time, the catalog was transferred by scanning that captured only the front of the cards.

Created over a 50-year span from 1939 to 1989, that catalog grew to about 4 million cards in 65 cabinets with 4,000 drawers.

Virginia Woolf described her childhood at 22 Hyde Park Gate: ‘Ourduties were very plain and our pleasures absolutely appropriate.’ Life wasdivided into two spaces – indoors, in a nursery and a book-lined drawingroom, and outdoors, in Kensington Gardens. ‘There were smells and flowersand dead leaves and chestnuts, by which you distinguished the seasons, andeach had innumerable associations, and power to flood the brain in a second.’

Perhaps the quickest way to understand the elements of what a novelistis doing is not to read, but to write; to make your own experiment withthe dangers and difficulties of words.

The only advice, indeed,that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, tofollow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your ownconclusions

Let us take down one of those old notebooks which we have all, at one time or another, had a passion for beginning. Most of the pages are blank, it is true; but at the beginning we shall find a certain number very beautifully covered with a strikingly legible hand-writing. Here we have written down the names of great writers in their order of merit; here we have copied out fine passages from the classics; here are lists of books to be read; and here, most interesting of all, lists of books that have actually been read, as the reader testifies with some youthful vanity by a dash of red ink. —“Hours in a Library”

Creativity and productivity do indeed require a room of one’s own.

Let us take down one of those old notebooks which we have all, at one time or another, had a passion for beginning. Most of the pages are blank, it is true; but at the beginning we shall find a certain number very beautifully covered with a strikingly legible handwriting….here we have copied out fine passages from the classics;…here, most interesting of all, lists of books that have actually been read, as the reader testifies with some youthful vanity by a dash of red ink. ~ Virginia Woolf, “Hours in a Library”

Virginia politicians face some of the loosest ethics rules in the U.S., according to a new index from nonpartisan group Coalition for Integrity.

Wikipedia. La brecha profunda. Parte 2

Wikipedia. La brecha profunda. Parte 1

Cosas sobre bibliotecas / Things about libraries

He dedicado esta ponencia a la memoria de Rossana Brinati, bibliotecaria que nos ha dejado recientemente y que, para orgullo de todos y todas nosotras ha organizado el centro de documentación del CEDLA, uno que no solo tenía bien organizado, catalogado, clasificado, indizado y digitalizado su fondo, sino también analizado.

Porque como bien concluyen estos autores, “Si los profesionales en ciencias de la información estamos informados por el pensamiento crítico sobre la construcción de ciudadanía, no hay nada mejor que enseñar con el ejemplo”, o, en otras palabras, si creemos en el acceso a la información como parte del ejercicio de los derechos ciudadanos, enseñemos con el ejemplo.

los bibliotecarios David Ramirez y Virginia Simon(2018)

valorar las experiencias cartoneras,

Todo puede y debe ser reflexionado

Pero queda de lado, además, el carácter de ciudadano de los bibliotecarios, profesionales o no, que no ejercensu derecho al pensamiento

Y es que el pecado de estas dos instituciones fue y es ponerse “del otro lado”, del lado de las bibliotecas no neutrales, del lado de las que ofrecen información especializada y analizada, de las que creen en el acceso libre a la información

CEDIB y al CEDLA

Como bibliotecaria, es decir, como lectora

No es que la experiencia de Rumania o la de Chuquisaca no sean valiosas, pero destacadas de ese modo, le quitan a la actividad bibliotecaria su relación con lasociedad.

frontera petrolera y energética, mediante la explotación de gas y petróleo no convencional, con la tan cuestionada metodología extractivista de la fractura hidráulica o fracking.

Es decir, ¿se trata de lograr la seguridad alimentaria y mejorar la nutrición a costa de los bosques?

Pero debido a que me han pedido esta ponencia en medio del fuego, el que incendia nuestra Chiquitanía, he detenido mi lectura en los ODS referidos al medio ambiente, esperando encontrar ejemplos de cómo relacionar el quehacer bibliotecario con la lucha por el medio ambiente.

Extractivismo e información: los límites del desarrollo

A Room of One’s Own White Colleagues

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Bacon’s Rebellion: The Declaration (1676)

a Dutch slave ship sold 20 Africans to the Virginia colonists.

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IV. English Colonization