What is presidential leadership?
I think it is this. Almost all presidents reach a point when they are faced with choosing among unpalatable alternatives under conditions of great uncertainty and with potentially great consequences, both for their own……Continue Reading Making His Presidency McChrystal Clear
Here’s another short video that uses a link on a subject guide in order to search for music CDs in a foreign language.
Already have a performer or band in mind? You can also search in Midcat using the name of the performer or band.
If we don’t own it, try NExpress or ask us to order […]…Continue Reading Another way to find language related music CDs
The storms certainly keep coming, and, worryingly, the trees keep succumbing. Today at 3:30 a very brief but intense cell blasted through campus. We’d lost power for a little bit, I don’t know why. The weather station recorded about 1/4″ of rain in 15 minutes, with a peak wind gust of 35 mph, from the north. […]…Continue Reading Another Day, another storm
This posting covers the last remaining section of the TAM (Trail Around Middlebury) which has not yet been described in this blog. Most of this run proceeds through the open meadows to the west of Middlebury College, with a short loop on the Ralph Myhre Golf Course thrown in as a warm-up. Since my locker […]…Continue Reading Muddy Meadows and Poison Parsnips
Faculty, before you sign that next publishing contract, read the information about retaining your author rights by adding an addendum to your publisher’s contract. Links to this information may be found at the bottom of the LIS for Faculty page (shortcut http://go/lis4faculty). Or you can use these direct links:
Retaining your rights as an author
Author rights […]…Continue Reading Faculty Authors – Retaining Your Author Rights
Thanks to Rich Church for many years of service and many miles of books shelved.
Tomorrow, Thursday June 24th is Rich’s last day of work in LIS. At his request, we are not organizing an official send-off, but he’ll be around all morning if you want to stop by to wish him well before he hits […]…Continue Reading Farewell Rich
The poison parsnip is starting to bloom on roadsides, and, being one of those plants I get asked about (and emailed about), I thought I’d fill you in on the nastiness. Poison parsnip, Pastinaca sativa, is actually Parsnip, the root vegetable. As a vegetable, it was popular in colonial times, as it matures under a […]…Continue Reading Poison Parsnip