A few random things

First, Love to my girl who either has the best luck ever or the worst luck ever.
Second, Boo and hiss to that magazine that claims to make life simple but then runs a great article about the very simple process of throwing out your expensive disposable electronics. I hate all this disposable crap!

MARC records

I am looking for cataloging suggestions! When we are cataloging we run into a lot of things that we don't have an importable record for. So we do original cataloging. Today one of our volunteers asked, why would you do that when you can just export from the LOC and import it into our catalog. However, it not working so great for me. I get timed out of the LOC catalog before I ever get a change to do anything with it. Please tell me what I am doing wrong!

A few of my favorite people all in one place

I can't believe it's over

Wow! that was a whirlwind of a summer. I learned all kinds of things, but most of all I know what I want to do with my life. . .

We run to things or away from things for all kinds of reasons. Up to this point I have done a lot of running away. Tied up by things I think I ought to be, I ran with little direction towards someone else's definition of success. I good friend of mine recently showed me just how silly my view really was by making some really bad decisions in his own life. But I also learned about personal success rather than competitive success and that I will only succeed if I am doing what I care about.

I just can't resist the YouTube debate. . .

Would you work for minimum wage?

Scrap it!

Bill knows No Child Left Behind is Trash!

Censorship at its best. . .

I just saw Disney's Song of the South. It was unlike anything I have ever seen, and I thought I saw it when I was a kid. I guess I just remembered what my parents wanted me to remember like how the leopard got its spots and zip-e-do-da and singing and telling stories. But wow, for all of the blackface I have seen and the Jim Crow art I was not prepared for that. All I can say is thank God that I had no idea what was going on when I saw it the first time. AHHHH!
So that brings me to an actual school topic. I watched a bootleg copy. When it showed up as a donation I nearly fell out of my chair. So I just had to watch it. Generally I think censorship is a bad thing, but this self-imposed censorship that Disney has taken up is not all bad. There could be a little more access to the film for school purposes, when I was deep into American race relations it could have been a very powerful teaching tool. But a teaching tool to college students, not kids and it should not be something you can go to Blockbuster and pick up. So in 2039 Song of the South will enter the public domain.
Usually I think Disney is enemy #1 when it comes to keeping things from the public domain. But on this one, I am with them. So the question arises, what happens in this one instance where the copyright holder wants to keep the art from the public for the publics' good? Because out there in the public domain the work could be used in the worst kind of ways, is it maybe better if Disney could just lock it up in their "vault" and throw away the key?

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