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Library staff tea, originally uploaded by DPL Western History/Genealogy. I’ve been on volunteer committees for over half my life. Seriously. I joined the executive board of the Carmichael Teen Center when I was 14, then the Sacramento Youth Commission. When I moved to Berkeley for school I joined KALX, and quickly got involved with the…

Exposing screen, originally uploaded by katybeck. This week I’m trying something new: I’m learning how to screen print. This means I have to track down a transparency to burn a screen and buy a screen. So I was thinking about transparencies this morning. Which then of course goes back to government transparency. Earlier today I…

Today  I saw this tweet in my stream: Hey @tranlib – is this with you guys? If so any chance you can help me w/ a copy? trid.trb.org/view/2000/C/65… — James Wong (@jcwong86) June 22, 2012 These sorts of questions are pretty common, but what James is looking for is part of an old database of…

Gutted., originally uploaded by kendrak. This is a picture of the back of the library at work. You can see where the shelves used to be by the holes in the carpet and the brown paint. I still don’t know how much has been moved and discarded, but it looks and feels like a lot.…

Goodbye Elevator World, originally uploaded by kendrak. I’m at about the half-way mark of sifting through my library’s physical collection. Let me tell you, not only having the dry, paper cut riddled, filthy hands to show for it, I also have a new understanding of how much of our collection has been used (or not).…