I got to sleep in a little this
morning, not as much as I would have liked but there was work to be
done. And I eventually got around to doing that. I think it might
have been after lunch before I actually typed anything but by the end
of the day I was able to finish my fifth reflective journal entry.
Only two more to go. And as soon as I finish the next one I'll be
all caught up because technically I should be on the seventh one at
the moment. Almost there.
During lunch I watched the A
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and
The Mayflower Voyages (because
it was on the same disc). A Charlie Brown Thankgiving
always reminds me of my grandma and grandpa because I remember
watching it over at their house when I was kid. And we watched it
while eating air-pop popcorn because they eat popcorn in the movie.
In The Mayflower Voyages
I learned that the average speed of the Mayflower was two miles an
hour. I don't know how accurate that is, and I don't want to look it
up because I want to believe that ridiculously slow speed.
In my reading about libraries today
I learned how easily the organization of materials in the library can
become biased. Even the Dewey Decimal System has been accused of
being preferentially biased toward Western cultures. In my journal I
argued that the organization of materials will always be biased by
some degree for the same reason that all research is biased, because
a human is behind it and just by virtue of being alive in a certain
place at a certain time in history, a person becomes biased. My
offhand solution was that someday libraries will be able to be
modeled virtually and people can organize them however they see fit.
I think that is an interesting idea.
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