Knoxville’s Ice Cream Trucks
In case you’ve ever wondered where Knoxville’s ice cream trucks emerge from every summer like cicadas.
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Jobs update
Well I didn’t get a librarian job, if you hadn’t gathered that from Twitter. They hired someone for the User Education Technologies job but the Digital Media Technologies job was called a failed search and they’ll re-advertise it in the future. Better luck next time I guess. On the brighter side my current position here … Read more
Update on Cable, Interviews etc.
If you’ve looked at the recent posts here, you’d see that I’ve had issues with Comcast. I’m happy to report all is well. Setting up the Tivo again was a bit complicated, since this is the first time I’ve had a digital cable box. Having the Internet at home again is great, I was having … Read more
Comcast update – progress
Update 11:53 a.m. Cable will be installed tomorrow. Line run in the morning, cable installed in the house between 3 and 5 p.m. 🙂 Update 11:14 a.m It looks like we’ll be getting cable tomorrow! 🙂 Stephanie got a call from Comcast last night. Apparently all the phone calls Monday and anger associated with those … Read more
Comcast doesn’t have the best command structure
Update: it’s in interesting tale, so feel free to read. Issues resolved, thanks Benny and Kirk and whoever else was involved for their quick work on this. Hopefully this situation won’t happen to anybody else. So Stephanie and I got our new house built and we finally moved in in April. Our new house is … Read more
End of an era
Hodges Library no longer has a reference desk. We had a wake for it yesterday afternoon. Day to day reference questions have been moved upstairs to the Commons desk. In fact Hodges no longer has a reference department. It’s been split into Integrated User Services, Research Services, and Research Collections. I understand and support the … Read more
We have the power
Well technically my new house does. The floors are done and the electricity is on and working. Stephanie has updates. The wood floors look nice. I’m really pleased with how the floors turned out. More Lisa birthday pictures. The library reorg picked up steam yesterday, some new appointments have been made and searches are starting. … Read more
In what appears to be a monthly event…
…I’m blogging. The house is still under construction but we’re really close to being done now. Stephanie has updates. Lisa is now two, pictures are here. Work is still busy, the library reorganization (and resulting confusion continues)…
More on the sad state of Hoskins Library
The Knoxville News Sentinel has a story on Hoskins Library. The damage over there is pretty serious. If you ask me they should just tear down the Kefauver wing instead f trying to fix the foundation (which has been tried before). Be sure to check out the video that goes with the article. Some of … Read more
Hoskins Library: A Secret History
Knoxville’s Metro Pulse weekly paper has a story on UT’s Hoskins Library which used to be the main library. It now houses archives and special collections among other things and has fallen into disrepair.