May 2011 – tricia burmeister

Visualizing the LCSH: May 2011

May 23, 2011May 24, 2011 Tricia1 Comment

150 Ice cream trucks [May Subd Geog] [sp2002009439]
* 550 BT Food trucks
* 550 BT Trucks CANCEL

150 Mixed media painting [May Subd Geog] [sp 85086321]
* 550 BT Mixed media (Art)

abstract mixed media flower painting by Ger Van Elk — Bouquet Anvers by Ger Van Elk

150 Nineteen ninety‑three, A.D. [Not Subd Geog] [sp2011001971]
450 UF 1993 A.D. 450 UF Nineteen hundred ninety‑three, A.D.
450 UF Year nineteen ninety‑fthree, A.D.
550 BT Nineteen nineties

150 Islands—Macedonia [sp2011001898]

It seems there’s only one island in Macedonia, so it probably slipped through the cracks until now…but in that case perhaps there should be a new heading that reads “Island — Macedonia”?

thumbnail for solemone on behance — click me!

150 Rainbow in art CANCEL
150 Rainbows in art [Not Subd Geog] [sp 85111207]
450 UF Rainbow in art [EARLIER FORM OF HEADING]

150 Steel sculpture, Chinese [May Subd Geog] [sp2011001979]
450 UF Chinese steel sculpture

150 Tiles in art [Not Subd Geog] [sp2011001832]

Persian Warriors from Ishtar Gate, Pergamon Museum (wikipedia image)

150 Trails—Iceland [sp2011001987]

Iceland trail and haunted areas map — click to enlarge

150 War horses in literature [Not Subd Geog] [sp2011001805]

150 Children—Bolivia [sp2011001984]

Albumen prints of Aymara indigenous people from Bolivia — from the Church collection at Brown University Library

Too many books

May 12, 2011May 23, 2011 TriciaLeave a comment

I’m almost done with (and thoroughly enjoying)…

but it is too heavy to carry on the bus, so I checked out…

but then I realized I could download the Overdrive app for my phone, so I electronically borrowed…

But then a co-worker who knows I love sci-fi adventures with female protagonists brought me…

And then today when I was shelving newspapers I saw and had to grab…

And my office shelf is still holding…

But I don’t really want to beat a dead horse, as the saying goes, so I haven’t been motivated to read it, nor have I sunk my teeth into…

and I should really just give up on…

I feel like I check out library books the way some people take in stray cats. Maybe that’s why the stereotypical librarian is always a cat lady too?

Desktop wallpapers #4

May 12, 2011 TriciaLeave a comment

finally, it’s spring. or more like summer, but whatever.

blue sky, orange diagonal structure — opposite colours by hakze

Historical Issues #2: Soviet Film

May 5, 2011May 5, 2011 TriciaLeave a comment

There are such treasures hiding in the stacks, and really, they don’t make journal covers like they used to. I coincidentally found these journals the same week that the Russian Film Symposium is happening in Pittsburgh, so I knew it was fated that I should share some of the images.

1978:no. 10 (257) Actor Oleg Yankovsky

1978:no. 9 (256): Actress Svetlana Toma

1977:no. 8 (243): Komaki Kurihara and Yuri Solomin in “Melodies of the White Night”, a Soviet-Japanese co-production.

1976:no. 11 (234): Sergei Bondarchuk on location during the shooting of “Steppe” based on the story of the same title by Anton Chekhov.

1975:no.8 (219): Actress Natalia Varley

1972:no.2 (177): Asanali Ashimov, the Kazakh actor who played in “Crossroad”, “The End of the Ataman,” “Kyz-Zhibek”

1975:no.4 (215): Film actress Ludmila Gurchenko (“Carnival Night”, “Girl with a Guitar”, “Baltic Sky”, “Factory Town”, “Open Book”, “Vaniushin’s Children”, “Old Walls”, and others)

1972:no.1 (176): the Ukrainian actress Larisa Kadochnikova

1969:no.7 (146): Actress Tatyana Doronina

Sorry about the weird image quality. If anyone knows how to fix that or make it so the scanner doesn’t put those wavy lines in, please tell me for next time!

(I provide a link because, for some reason, WordPress insists on the “Filed Under” link below not linking just to my blog, but to the entire world. psh.)