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Category: Librarianship
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Rural Librarianship Release!
NEW RELEASE! Rural Librarianship: From Surviving to Thriving. Information Leadership for the 21st Century. Tada! After four years of post-graduate work experience, reading and research, constant reflection, PLUS one year of intensive writing, my book on rural librarianship is finally published! Thanks to all who encouraged me and waited patiently to receive this book. Available…
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Questions of 2021
Questions people have often asked us this year. Are you still hiking? Will you still hike the Appalachian Trail? What have you been doing in 2020/2021? When are you/Are you coming back to Dorcas Library? Here are answers: Yes. We are still hiking, albeit in somewhat reduced capacity. More on this in a later post.…
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Dreams Deferred (Again)
or A Hiker’s Guide to Global Pandemic 20200322 How quickly time has passed since our send-off event at Dorcas Library on Leap Day! So much has happened, in so brief a time. As posted on Facebook, Craig and I have postponed our trek of the Appalachian Trail for the time being. Depending upon travel restrictions…
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20191227 Training Update
We cannot believe how quickly time is passing… Less than 100 days until we begin our AT hike! Still so much to do. A point of clarification from an earlier blog. My childhood memory of the trail crossing a road near Weld was correct but the location was not. At Thanksgiving, my father pointed out…
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20191101 About Our Walk
What do we intend to do? First, we intend to hike all 2200-ish miles in one year. That’s the definition of a thru-hike. We intend to carry our own packs, although that is not required. We intend to hike mostly Southbound [SOBO]. We are considering a flipflop hike, following one of two options: start in…
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20190525 A Dream Deferred: Hiking the Appalachian Trail
I grew up in western Maine. During the summer months, we would drive from Wilton to Weld to swim at Dummer’s Beach. Halfway to the Weld, the Appalachian Trail crosses US ROUTE 2. When I was about 8 or 9 years old, I noticed people with large packs waiting to cross the road near the…
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20190523 Baxter State Park
Big & Little Niagara Falls We began at Daicey Pond parking lot, where we signed the register to hike to the falls. It was late May, but there was still snow in some areas of the park. Katahdin trails were not yet opened, and not expected to be opened until June. We hiked steadily, albeit…
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Dewey or Don’t We?
This is a standard joke in libraries…. True confession time, friends. I have always hated the Dewey Decimal system. I’m sure it was wonderful in 1876. And it is certainly better than stacks of unsorted books in random piles around the library. But, as a young child and as an adult, I learned to simply…