All the News that’s Unfit to Print: How things were and how they were reported

How journalism changed over the years and how we used to accept that somethings were kept quiet for the public good.

Who is this guy and Why is he taking Drone’s place?

Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 15:10 | Category : Off-Topic
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Who am I and why am I taking over from Drone while he has his nervous breakdown.

Guest Post: Snow a delightful children’s book reviewed by Sarah of Pussreboots

Snow is  written and illustrated by Caldecott winning children’s illustrator Uri Shulevitz. It tells the story in mostly pictures of a town surprised by an expected December snow. Although all the adults predict the snow won’t stick the illustrations show just the opposite. The little flakes of snow slowly but surely pile up turning the [...]

And now heeeeeeere’s Ron

Sunday, 26 July 2009, 17:52 | Category : Book Reviews
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My life partner, Ron, has graciously agreed to step up and continue posting book reviews here on libdrone while I am recovering and concentrating what little energy I have for blogging these days on my personal blog where I am trying to tell my story day by day. Ron [...]

Life At The Library

Friday, 24 July 2009, 14:42 | Category : Libraries, Off-Topic
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I never really believed in the trickle down theory of economics as espoused most famously by the later  Ronny Raygun,   but the global financial crisis has now trickled all the way down to the library where  I work.   The job that I took specifically because it was easy and low stress has become impossibly demanding [...]