Poem: "Seeds of Civilization"
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ysabetwordsmithThis poem came out of the March 2, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from kengr, readera, wyld_dandelyon, ng_moonmoth, and Anonymous. It also fills the "Dream Eyes" square in my 2-1-21 "Romance Book Titles" card for the Valentines Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by fuzzyred. It belongs to the Bear Tunnels series. It follows "The Hobbomak" and "Hickory Lives." Its sequels are "Beads and Mirrors," "The Eyes of All People," and "The Pequot War."
"Seeds of Civilization"
[April 2019]
Emma and Jesse
talked for a long time
about what to change
and how, what they
should bring with them
and what they shouldn't.
Emma found some lists
of books for restarting
civilization after a collapse.
"They're supposed to be
good for building from
scratch," she explained.
"But we're not," Jesse said.
"It's not like laying bricks on
bare ground. The roots are
already there. We'll just be
adding to our ancestors' work."
"Good point," Emma said.
"So maybe it's more like ...
we're carrying the seeds
of civilization, that we'd
like to plant in their fields."
"Corn, squash, and beans,"
Jesse said. "If you only had
two of the three sisters, then
adding the third would change
everything for the better."
They looked over the lists,
and the practical books
seemed very promising.
There were titles about
farming, making paper
and soap, physics, math,
mechanics, and medicine.
There were also a lot of
titles that seemed to be there
just because they were canon.
"This shit's awfully white,"
Jesse said, frowning.
"Awfully male, too,"
Emma said. "And
every last bit of it is
written in English."
"Well, we can fix that,"
Jesse said. "Start
with your French
and my Spanish."
"Good idea," she said.
"Both of those were
world languages then.
Throw in everything we
can get on Wampanoag
and other local languages."
"Maybe some others from
Turtle Island," said Jesse.
"There's a fair amount
of Cherokee, Lakota,
and Navajo in print."
"Just having the syllabary
would be a great trade item
if we go far enough inland
to reach the Cherokee,"
Emma said. "That
could help us a lot."
"And cheat Sequoyah
of inventing it?" Jesse said.
"He didn't do that until
the 1800s," said Emma.
"We'll say it came from
a Cherokee man called
Sequoyah, and that's true."
"Yeah, that works," Jesse said.
"Hey, do you know Hand Talk?"
"Yes, but we should include
resources on that, in case
we need to teach that to
other people," Emma said.
"Slaves," Jesse said. "They
would've spoken a variety
of West African languages.
Hand Talk might be easier
for them to learn than
English or Wampanoag."
"It's more concrete than
spoken languages, which
tend to be abstract, and
there's no phoneme problem,"
Emma said. "Good thinking."
Adding the native titles also
added books by women and
even a few two-spirits, but
Emma added another stack
just for good measure.
Jesse added some
by black authors.
"How do we know
that we'll have what
we need?" he said.
"You have to see with
dream eyes, to see what
will be needed before
it is," Emma said.
"We should make sure
to cover all the stuff that
goes into civilizations,"
Jesse said. "Focusing
on books, people might
have left something out."
Further scouting on that line
turned up a handy list that
included purifying water,
preventing infection, growing
food, generating power, chemistry,
pyrolysis, and scientific knowledge.
"That ought to give us a leg up
on the colonists," Emma said.
"We can pack medical supplies,
tools, and other things too."
"Weapons?" Jesse said.
Emma shook her head.
"I don't want to go there,"
she said. "In the beginning,
the colonists' advantage was
small because there were
so few of them -- they will be
easily overrun by an alliance."
"Fair enough," said Jesse.
"It's better if people can
do things for themselves."
"Yeah, the last thing we want
is to repeat the mistakes
of our own history with
different people in charge,"
Emma said. "That wouldn't
make the world much better."
"I'd like to see what our people
can do with more tools and
ideas, hopefully take things
in a whole new direction,"
Jesse said. "It's exciting."
"It just depends on getting
people to band together
faster and bigger than they
did in our past," Emma said.
"Do you really think we can
convince them?" Jesse said.
"I'm confident that we can
show them faster, easier ways
of doing things," Emma said.
"That's always an easy sell."
"Yeah, people don't want
to work any harder than they
have to," Jesse agreed.
"The politics will be harder,
but I'm a woman, which will
help with the Wampanoag; and
you're an educated black man,
which will impress the hell out
of the slaves," Emma said.
"And also scare the hell out of
the white men, if it comes to that,"
Jesse said with a ferocious grin.
Emma looked at their lists
and at the growing pile of
civilization-seeding supplies.
"Let's give 'em hell," she said.
* * *
Notes:
Read about the history of slavery in Massachusetts. It included both African and Native American victims.
Native American crops included the Three Sisters of corn, squash, and beans. Explore some heritage varieties and recipes.
Books and book lists for jumpstarting civilization:
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch is a non-fiction reference work written by astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell. The book, also titled The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm, was published on the 17th of April, 2014, by Penguin Books.
The book is written as a quick-start guide to restarting civilization following a global catastrophe.
Stewart Brand’s Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization
The Seven Essential Books for Rebuilding Civilization
The 10 Books Needed to Re-start Civilization
The Golden Guides
The Foxfire Magazine & Books
For what it's worth, if I lean to my left, I can see the bookcase holding much of my "core" nonfiction including atlases, astronomy, other basic sciences, homesteading, and a few of the Foxfires. Behind that facing the other way is the one with (English) dictionaries, thesauri, and the Golden Guides. Just in case anyone needs to jumpstart civilization from here.
Other topics useful for these goals:
Brandon/Hill Selected List of Print Books and Journals for the Small Medical Library
Emma and Jesse eventually get the complete 1999 set of books with an assortment of its journal issues and some other random materials from a medical library clearing out its old stock to make way for new ones. They'll want to buy current editions of a few things, but most of the latest advances rely on a level of technology too high to be very useful in the past, so in many cases the older material will work just fine.
2001 (19th edition) = 630 books and 143 journals
To purchase the entire collection of 630 books and to pay for 143 2001 journal subscriptions would require $124,000. The cost of only the asterisked items, books and journals, totals $55,000. The "minimal core list" book collection costs approximately $14,300.
(does not list actual books)
1999 (17th edition) = 610 books and 141 journals
To purchase the entire collection of books and to pay for 1997 journal
subscriptions would require $101,700. The cost of only the asterisked
items, books and journals, totals $43,100. The "minimal core" book
collection costs $12,600.
(includes list of titles)
Essential and Core Books for Veterinary Medicine
Best Prepper Survival Books
Want to reboot civilization? What you’ll need
The 20 Most Important Tools Ever
Machines: Global Village Construction Set
Best books by genre:
100 Best Agriculture Books of All Time
100 Best Craft Books of All Time
100 Best Health Books of All Time
100 Best Medicine Books of All Time
100 Best Science and Math Books of All Time
Literary Canons
The "literary canon classics" are overwhelmingly dead white straight men with money. This causes a number of problems. Emma and Jesse have chosen to address this by seeking titles by other types of people and including white men's books only as incidental acquisitions from batches of books. A majority of the collection is nonfiction, with some fiction included for cultural context and comprehension practice.
100 Must-Read Classics by Women
Women Nonfiction Book Lists
The QBR 100 Essential Black Books
#ReadPOC: List of Nonfiction Books by Authors of Color
EPL Picks: Two-Spirited Authors
World Languages and Heritage Languages
Rather than repeat the domination of English, Emma and Jesse decide to promote two other world languages, French and Spanish; plus several heritage languages. The collection still contains a lot of English books just because they're easier to get in America, but Emma and Jesse actively worked to counterbalance those with other content.
From the 16th century onward, French expanded to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia.
French Leveled Books
French Literature
French Literature Classics
French Nonfiction Books
From the 16th century onward, Spanish expanded to much of South and Central America plus the Spanish East Indies.
Authentic Spanish Books
Spanish Leveled Books
Spanish Literature
Spanish and Latin American Literary Canon
Spanish Nonfiction
The Cherokee (Tsalagi) language is written in a syllabary. The Cherokee syllabary was invented by George Guess/Gist, a.k.a. Chief Sequoyah, of the Cherokee, and was developed between 1809 and 1824.
Cherokee Publications see All Cherokee Titles
Cherokee Publishing Company on Open Library
Tsalagi Resources
Lakota (Lakȟótiyapi) is a Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes, one of the largest surviving indigenous languages with at least 2,000 speakers.
Lakota Books
Books for Young Readers
Lakota Classics (nonfiction)
Lakota Language
Original Publications by Lakota Books
Books from Other Publishers
Music: Books on Music and Dance
Music: Lakota Spiritual Songs
Navajo (Diné bizaad) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family. It is one of the largest surviving indigenous languages and by far the largest in north of the Mexico–United States border, with about 170,000 speakers.
Diné College Press
Navajo References and Books
Salina Bookshelf publisher and catalog
NativeWeb Booksellers & Publishing
Hand Talk or Plains Indian Sign is a somatic language that once spanned most of Turtle Island, part of a trade network that touched all four coasts. Browse an online guide.
Plains Indian Sign Language
Plains Indian Sign Language books on Amazon
Black English and some other creoles evolved during the slavery days as a result of West African languages mixing with English (itself more or less a creole spanning Germanic, French, and Norse layers plus a sprinkle of words from everything else it ever encountered).
10 Books to Learn AAVE aka Black English
AAVE in Literature: The Bad, the Good, and the Great
African-American English Books for Youth
Black English Books
Books that public libraries should have:
A Bare Bones Reference List For Small and Medium-Sized Public Libraries in Maine
Recommended Reading: Librarian/Professional Resources
Idaho Commission for Libraries ~ Guide to Reference Materials
Community Health Engagement: Health Books for Public Libraries
Note that in the Bear Tunnels context, some of these titles will be irrelevant or even actively harmful, such as guides to American government or business. They may be omitted and replaced with more useful and culturally relevant titles.
Establishing Libraries
How to Start and Run a Basic Library
EXPERIENCE FORMULAS FOR LIBRARY SIZE AND COSTS
Population Size, Book Stock — Volumes per Capita, No. of Seats per 1,000 Population Circulation — Volumes per Capita Total Sq. Ft. per Capita Desirable First Floor Sq. Ft. per Capita 1961 Fair Estimated Cost per Capita*
Under 10,000 people, 3 1/2 – 5 books/person, 10 circulation, 10 .7 – .8 F2/person, 1st floor F2/person .5 – .7, $15/person
10,000 – 35,000 people, 2 3/4 – 3 5 books/person, 5 circulation, 9.5 circulation, .6 – .65 F2/person, .4 – .45 1st floor F2/person, $12/person
Note that the 2015 budget of $4.28 per person was not enough to buy even one book.
There are many ways to get books free or cheap to stock a library. Similarly there are places to donate books, which support similar ends. For one example, the African Library Project connects book drives in the U.S. to schools across Africa. A donation of 1,000 books and $500 to cover shipping equals one functioning library.
For the Bear Tunnels, estimate a library system serving about 35,000 people with a volume of 105,000 books and other materials (e.g. maps, globes, flash cards, games). This is the approximate number ultimately brought through by Emma and Jesse to jumpstart civilization. About 5,000 of those are crucial texts with multiple volumes -- dictionaries, atlases, medical manuals, and the civilization handbooks -- deliberately assembled as the foundation of libraries. The rest are random duplicates of crucial texts or individual books on widely varied topics, as much nonfiction as possible with some fiction for variety. Some books were donated, as Emma and Jesse ran book drives for a "tribal library" (which was true). Much of the stock came from library sales or used book stores where they could arrange bulk purchases at a deep discount, or other secondhand sources. Only a few of the crucial texts had to be bought new.
The books do not stay all clustered together, but get distributed into 10 main libraries each with about 10,000 books suited to local needs. The first five "core" libraries in Wampanoag territory have a complete set of the crucial texts: Shell Library, Turtle Library, Bear Library, Hickory Library, and Strawberry Library. The next six extend into allied tribes and contain as many of the crucial texts as possible. Another 5,000 or so books are scattered around wherever needed. Students who wish to practice reading and writing may copy the books, which increases the available material.
kengr, readera, wyld_dandelyon, ng_moonmoth, and Anonymous. It also fills the "Dream Eyes" square in my 2-1-21 "Romance Book Titles" card for the Valentines Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by fuzzyred. It belongs to the Bear Tunnels series. It follows "The Hobbomak" and "Hickory Lives." Its sequels are "Beads and Mirrors," "The Eyes of All People," and "The Pequot War.""Seeds of Civilization"
[April 2019]
Emma and Jesse
talked for a long time
about what to change
and how, what they
should bring with them
and what they shouldn't.
Emma found some lists
of books for restarting
civilization after a collapse.
"They're supposed to be
good for building from
scratch," she explained.
"But we're not," Jesse said.
"It's not like laying bricks on
bare ground. The roots are
already there. We'll just be
adding to our ancestors' work."
"Good point," Emma said.
"So maybe it's more like ...
we're carrying the seeds
of civilization, that we'd
like to plant in their fields."
"Corn, squash, and beans,"
Jesse said. "If you only had
two of the three sisters, then
adding the third would change
everything for the better."
They looked over the lists,
and the practical books
seemed very promising.
There were titles about
farming, making paper
and soap, physics, math,
mechanics, and medicine.
There were also a lot of
titles that seemed to be there
just because they were canon.
"This shit's awfully white,"
Jesse said, frowning.
"Awfully male, too,"
Emma said. "And
every last bit of it is
written in English."
"Well, we can fix that,"
Jesse said. "Start
with your French
and my Spanish."
"Good idea," she said.
"Both of those were
world languages then.
Throw in everything we
can get on Wampanoag
and other local languages."
"Maybe some others from
Turtle Island," said Jesse.
"There's a fair amount
of Cherokee, Lakota,
and Navajo in print."
"Just having the syllabary
would be a great trade item
if we go far enough inland
to reach the Cherokee,"
Emma said. "That
could help us a lot."
"And cheat Sequoyah
of inventing it?" Jesse said.
"He didn't do that until
the 1800s," said Emma.
"We'll say it came from
a Cherokee man called
Sequoyah, and that's true."
"Yeah, that works," Jesse said.
"Hey, do you know Hand Talk?"
"Yes, but we should include
resources on that, in case
we need to teach that to
other people," Emma said.
"Slaves," Jesse said. "They
would've spoken a variety
of West African languages.
Hand Talk might be easier
for them to learn than
English or Wampanoag."
"It's more concrete than
spoken languages, which
tend to be abstract, and
there's no phoneme problem,"
Emma said. "Good thinking."
Adding the native titles also
added books by women and
even a few two-spirits, but
Emma added another stack
just for good measure.
Jesse added some
by black authors.
"How do we know
that we'll have what
we need?" he said.
"You have to see with
dream eyes, to see what
will be needed before
it is," Emma said.
"We should make sure
to cover all the stuff that
goes into civilizations,"
Jesse said. "Focusing
on books, people might
have left something out."
Further scouting on that line
turned up a handy list that
included purifying water,
preventing infection, growing
food, generating power, chemistry,
pyrolysis, and scientific knowledge.
"That ought to give us a leg up
on the colonists," Emma said.
"We can pack medical supplies,
tools, and other things too."
"Weapons?" Jesse said.
Emma shook her head.
"I don't want to go there,"
she said. "In the beginning,
the colonists' advantage was
small because there were
so few of them -- they will be
easily overrun by an alliance."
"Fair enough," said Jesse.
"It's better if people can
do things for themselves."
"Yeah, the last thing we want
is to repeat the mistakes
of our own history with
different people in charge,"
Emma said. "That wouldn't
make the world much better."
"I'd like to see what our people
can do with more tools and
ideas, hopefully take things
in a whole new direction,"
Jesse said. "It's exciting."
"It just depends on getting
people to band together
faster and bigger than they
did in our past," Emma said.
"Do you really think we can
convince them?" Jesse said.
"I'm confident that we can
show them faster, easier ways
of doing things," Emma said.
"That's always an easy sell."
"Yeah, people don't want
to work any harder than they
have to," Jesse agreed.
"The politics will be harder,
but I'm a woman, which will
help with the Wampanoag; and
you're an educated black man,
which will impress the hell out
of the slaves," Emma said.
"And also scare the hell out of
the white men, if it comes to that,"
Jesse said with a ferocious grin.
Emma looked at their lists
and at the growing pile of
civilization-seeding supplies.
"Let's give 'em hell," she said.
* * *
Notes:
Read about the history of slavery in Massachusetts. It included both African and Native American victims.
Native American crops included the Three Sisters of corn, squash, and beans. Explore some heritage varieties and recipes.
Books and book lists for jumpstarting civilization:
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch is a non-fiction reference work written by astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell. The book, also titled The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm, was published on the 17th of April, 2014, by Penguin Books.
The book is written as a quick-start guide to restarting civilization following a global catastrophe.
Stewart Brand’s Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization
The Seven Essential Books for Rebuilding Civilization
The 10 Books Needed to Re-start Civilization
The Golden Guides
The Foxfire Magazine & Books
For what it's worth, if I lean to my left, I can see the bookcase holding much of my "core" nonfiction including atlases, astronomy, other basic sciences, homesteading, and a few of the Foxfires. Behind that facing the other way is the one with (English) dictionaries, thesauri, and the Golden Guides. Just in case anyone needs to jumpstart civilization from here.
Other topics useful for these goals:
Brandon/Hill Selected List of Print Books and Journals for the Small Medical Library
Emma and Jesse eventually get the complete 1999 set of books with an assortment of its journal issues and some other random materials from a medical library clearing out its old stock to make way for new ones. They'll want to buy current editions of a few things, but most of the latest advances rely on a level of technology too high to be very useful in the past, so in many cases the older material will work just fine.
2001 (19th edition) = 630 books and 143 journals
To purchase the entire collection of 630 books and to pay for 143 2001 journal subscriptions would require $124,000. The cost of only the asterisked items, books and journals, totals $55,000. The "minimal core list" book collection costs approximately $14,300.
(does not list actual books)
1999 (17th edition) = 610 books and 141 journals
To purchase the entire collection of books and to pay for 1997 journal
subscriptions would require $101,700. The cost of only the asterisked
items, books and journals, totals $43,100. The "minimal core" book
collection costs $12,600.
(includes list of titles)
Essential and Core Books for Veterinary Medicine
Best Prepper Survival Books
Want to reboot civilization? What you’ll need
The 20 Most Important Tools Ever
Machines: Global Village Construction Set
Best books by genre:
100 Best Agriculture Books of All Time
100 Best Craft Books of All Time
100 Best Health Books of All Time
100 Best Medicine Books of All Time
100 Best Science and Math Books of All Time
Literary Canons
The "literary canon classics" are overwhelmingly dead white straight men with money. This causes a number of problems. Emma and Jesse have chosen to address this by seeking titles by other types of people and including white men's books only as incidental acquisitions from batches of books. A majority of the collection is nonfiction, with some fiction included for cultural context and comprehension practice.
100 Must-Read Classics by Women
Women Nonfiction Book Lists
The QBR 100 Essential Black Books
#ReadPOC: List of Nonfiction Books by Authors of Color
EPL Picks: Two-Spirited Authors
World Languages and Heritage Languages
Rather than repeat the domination of English, Emma and Jesse decide to promote two other world languages, French and Spanish; plus several heritage languages. The collection still contains a lot of English books just because they're easier to get in America, but Emma and Jesse actively worked to counterbalance those with other content.
From the 16th century onward, French expanded to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia.
French Leveled Books
French Literature
French Literature Classics
French Nonfiction Books
From the 16th century onward, Spanish expanded to much of South and Central America plus the Spanish East Indies.
Authentic Spanish Books
Spanish Leveled Books
Spanish Literature
Spanish and Latin American Literary Canon
Spanish Nonfiction
The Cherokee (Tsalagi) language is written in a syllabary. The Cherokee syllabary was invented by George Guess/Gist, a.k.a. Chief Sequoyah, of the Cherokee, and was developed between 1809 and 1824.
Cherokee Publications see All Cherokee Titles
Cherokee Publishing Company on Open Library
Tsalagi Resources
Lakota (Lakȟótiyapi) is a Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes, one of the largest surviving indigenous languages with at least 2,000 speakers.
Lakota Books
Books for Young Readers
Lakota Classics (nonfiction)
Lakota Language
Original Publications by Lakota Books
Books from Other Publishers
Music: Books on Music and Dance
Music: Lakota Spiritual Songs
Navajo (Diné bizaad) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family. It is one of the largest surviving indigenous languages and by far the largest in north of the Mexico–United States border, with about 170,000 speakers.
Diné College Press
Navajo References and Books
Salina Bookshelf publisher and catalog
NativeWeb Booksellers & Publishing
Hand Talk or Plains Indian Sign is a somatic language that once spanned most of Turtle Island, part of a trade network that touched all four coasts. Browse an online guide.
Plains Indian Sign Language
Plains Indian Sign Language books on Amazon
Black English and some other creoles evolved during the slavery days as a result of West African languages mixing with English (itself more or less a creole spanning Germanic, French, and Norse layers plus a sprinkle of words from everything else it ever encountered).
10 Books to Learn AAVE aka Black English
AAVE in Literature: The Bad, the Good, and the Great
African-American English Books for Youth
Black English Books
Books that public libraries should have:
A Bare Bones Reference List For Small and Medium-Sized Public Libraries in Maine
Recommended Reading: Librarian/Professional Resources
Idaho Commission for Libraries ~ Guide to Reference Materials
Community Health Engagement: Health Books for Public Libraries
Note that in the Bear Tunnels context, some of these titles will be irrelevant or even actively harmful, such as guides to American government or business. They may be omitted and replaced with more useful and culturally relevant titles.
Establishing Libraries
How to Start and Run a Basic Library
EXPERIENCE FORMULAS FOR LIBRARY SIZE AND COSTS
Population Size, Book Stock — Volumes per Capita, No. of Seats per 1,000 Population Circulation — Volumes per Capita Total Sq. Ft. per Capita Desirable First Floor Sq. Ft. per Capita 1961 Fair Estimated Cost per Capita*
Under 10,000 people, 3 1/2 – 5 books/person, 10 circulation, 10 .7 – .8 F2/person, 1st floor F2/person .5 – .7, $15/person
10,000 – 35,000 people, 2 3/4 – 3 5 books/person, 5 circulation, 9.5 circulation, .6 – .65 F2/person, .4 – .45 1st floor F2/person, $12/person
Note that the 2015 budget of $4.28 per person was not enough to buy even one book.
There are many ways to get books free or cheap to stock a library. Similarly there are places to donate books, which support similar ends. For one example, the African Library Project connects book drives in the U.S. to schools across Africa. A donation of 1,000 books and $500 to cover shipping equals one functioning library.
For the Bear Tunnels, estimate a library system serving about 35,000 people with a volume of 105,000 books and other materials (e.g. maps, globes, flash cards, games). This is the approximate number ultimately brought through by Emma and Jesse to jumpstart civilization. About 5,000 of those are crucial texts with multiple volumes -- dictionaries, atlases, medical manuals, and the civilization handbooks -- deliberately assembled as the foundation of libraries. The rest are random duplicates of crucial texts or individual books on widely varied topics, as much nonfiction as possible with some fiction for variety. Some books were donated, as Emma and Jesse ran book drives for a "tribal library" (which was true). Much of the stock came from library sales or used book stores where they could arrange bulk purchases at a deep discount, or other secondhand sources. Only a few of the crucial texts had to be bought new.
The books do not stay all clustered together, but get distributed into 10 main libraries each with about 10,000 books suited to local needs. The first five "core" libraries in Wampanoag territory have a complete set of the crucial texts: Shell Library, Turtle Library, Bear Library, Hickory Library, and Strawberry Library. The next six extend into allied tribes and contain as many of the crucial texts as possible. Another 5,000 or so books are scattered around wherever needed. Students who wish to practice reading and writing may copy the books, which increases the available material.
Yay! Thanks!
Date: 2021-10-23 06:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-08-07 10:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-10-29 04:33 am (UTC)Thank you!
Date: 2022-10-29 04:50 am (UTC)That makes me so happy. <3 I love being able to contribute to library-building.
I'd enjoy hearing more about how your Capstone goes too.
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2025-01-12 03:44 am (UTC)My current library related project is tentatively titled "Neurodiversity Among Library Staff: Why We're Here, Why We're Weird, And Why That’s A Good Thing."
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2025-01-12 04:04 am (UTC)You earned it.
>> I've been buried in work since then,<<
I hope you can spare a little time this coming week. The plan is to hold a theme call on Monday and vote Wednesday on which themes to use in future fishbowls.
>> but I frequently refer back to the resources in your notes, not just this one but many of them.<<
Yay! I'm happy I could help.
>>My current library related project is tentatively titled "Neurodiversity Among Library Staff: Why We're Here, Why We're Weird, And Why That’s A Good Thing."<<
That is so awesome! :D
We went to a little local history museum there, and it was just us and the guy running the place. I think we spent more time geeking out together about various bits of history and society than actually looking at the exhibits, which we also did. <3 nerds.
There's a recent community here called
Seriously, the only thing I love about societies at this broad level of development is that it's the only level with cheap paperback books. The only timeframe in which any ordinary person can line their house with books. So of course that's what I did. It's the main reason I even come to worlds like this.
But hey, we've got a comm to talk about what and how we hoard. \o/