The Bailey/Howe Library; (including the Cook Physics/Chemistry Library) receives over 6,000 serial titles including newspapers, journals, annuals, reference sets & serials & book series. We are also a partial depository for Canadian government documents and maintain a large collection of Vermont related serials for the Wilbur Collection of Vermontiana.

I spend my days attempting the thankless task of trying to manage these suckers. I order them, pay for them, replace them when they get ripped off, bury them when they die and frequently curse at them (a LOT). And what's even more amazing, I actually LOVE MY JOB! Luckily I get a lot of help from Brenda, Juliet, Jane & Peggy along with Birdie - who somehow manages to manage us. To find out more about what we do, check out our dept. web page. If you're interested in knowing more about serials in general - take a look at Birdie's Serials in Cyberspace web site. It's the "in" place for Serialists to be seen.

Two reorganizations back, some wise guy (or committe) decided to leave me in the basement & move the serials upstairs. During those three years, I got a lot of exercise climbing up and down those stairs. Now, happily, I am situated in a corner just outside of the Eye of the Storm (see below):

where I can occasionally obtain a modicum of privacy and a place to rant without scaring the general public.

They whisper in the dark corners at NASIG and wandering in the stacks of the Library of Congress that Serialists are born, not made. Now that's a scary thought ...


This is my little corner of the world. You can't see it but at the back of the big wall is a poster from a wonderful movie called Playing By Heart. The tagline is: "If romance is a mystery, there's only one way to figure it out." I loved the original title of the movie : Dancing About Architecture but some idiot decided to change it. It comes from the line in the movie: "Talking about love is like dancing about architecture." Rent it if you've ever been in love.

You may actually notice an empty spot on my desk - Jane will make sure to fill it up with problems before the end of the day. A mini-zamboni sits on the monitor and Apple slogans & messages are everywhere; I may have been forced to use windoze, but I don't have to like it. So far there has only been one other person in the library who can identify the man standing next to the TV. If you know who it is, you're may just be my soul-mate. Also out of sight are my Doonesbury cartoons lampooning Titanic (one of my pet peeves) and a great cartoon I found showing how the Flyers will finally get the Stanley Cup. If you want to know who I am, you can certainly begin by looking at my cubicle walls.