Sepia Ides of March

Some sepia toned photos of the Ides of March, at home and work.

Coffee

More coffee!

Asta in the morning

Some time on the elliptical

Waning moon through the trees

Flying pig

At work on a coal and labor collection

Coal and labor collection

Manuscripts work table in my office

My much beloved office rocking chair.

Norfolk pine, microfilm, students.

Science building courtyard as seen from the library


All photos taken March 15, 2012 with a Panasonic G3 camera in sepia mode using a Panasonic 20mm 1.7 lens, post processing with the iPad app Snapseed.

Just another day at work...

A few photos of the workplace, taken last Friday.  Yes, students were coming in the library on Friday afternoon!

Friday afternoon activity in front of the library. 

I'm processing a Coal and Labor Unions collection, which includes some of these pamphlets. "John L. Lewis Speaks to Youth!"

Some pamphlets from the Coal and Labor Collection that I'm processing.

We just bought this classic book of Appalachian photographs:

A classic Appalachian photography book that we just purchased.

A corner of my desktop:

My desktop, complete with a cup of readable tea leaves and the compact shelving key (with the blue, green, and red buttons). Not to mention the Brother Thelonious Ale mouse pad.

In honor of Downton Abbey, I just did a blog post and a display of G. A. Henty books, which are mentioned in Downton Abbey. Yep, I got all BBC on this one.

G.A. Henty books ready to be put on display. Note for my archivist friends: these books already had library markings and labels. We recently moved them into the Rare Book Collection and relabeled them. 

After working on the above stuff, I zipped out of my office and went down this staircase:

The Lewis Carroll Alice In Wonderland stairwell in the library.

Only to arrive outside in the Alumni Garden next to the library for the next several photos:

Topiary in the Alumni Garden beside the library.

The bell and cornerstone from the original Radford Administration Building, now in the Alumni Garden. You can also see the original 1932 library building (to the left) and the 1960's library addition.

Bird feeders in the Alumni Garden. Secured against pilfering - but from birds or humans?

Students playing Hacky Sack in front of Reed Science building, as seen from the Alumni Gardens.

In the Library: FebPhotos Day 2

From the beauty of Buffalo Mountain to the institutional grandeur of... interior shots of McConnell Library! Featuring the M.C. Escher-esque stairwell, an angle I've always thought was pretty cool, so I finally took a photo:


I like long perspective photos that give some sense of depth. This is taken from the end of the first floor, with the compact shelving on the left and where the RU Archives, the Appalachian Collection, and my office will be housed on the right at some time in the future....



Our Special Collections are kept in locked sections of our compact shelving. Here's a section, with RU theses on the right and some of our older (and sometimes actually rare) books on the left:


I just moved offices a few weeks ago in my transition from Reference/Instruction to Archivist, and here's my new "temporary office," complete with shelves full of unprocessed collections. The rocking chair was my grandmother's, which adds a nice touch to an office with two computers, a scanner, a humongous printer, and four monitors.

It's snowing outside right now, so hopefully we'll get some snow photos for tomorrow.