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Ugh
This is the opening of Billy Collins’ “The Long Day” in the November issue of Poetry: In the morning I ate a banana like a young ape and worked on a poem called “Nocturne.” In the afternoon I opened the mail with a short kitchen knife, and when dusk began to fall I took off…
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Milk Shakes and Cold Playgrounds
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An LIS Program (and Much of a Library) Destroyed
There are some heartbreaking photos here of the October 30 flash flood that destroyed the ground floor of the Hamilton Library at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, wiping out the library’s map collection (numbering over 230,000 rare maps) and its government documents collection. The library’s acquisitions office and the university’s library science program facility…
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