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The All-Purpose Guru
http://www.allpurposeguru.com
After I spun off Musicology for Everyone and Grace and Judgment, what's left of The All-Purpose Guru is mostly library posts--as of Nov. 2009. I do plan to keep updating it with some other things.
- Added on: Oct 26th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: David Guion
- Listed in: Reference eLearning
- Tags: christianity library classical music grace devotionals musicology
Recent Posts
The family that sings together clings together
One family of my acquaintance never took vacations. They never did much of anything else together. The children never became involved in after-school activities. They did not develop common interests at home. Now that they're grown, holidays are time...
Finding subjects in an online library catalog
There are two difficulties with subject headings in a library catalog. For one thing, you must know what the subject heading is before you can search on it. For another, not all libraries use the same subject list. At first, it seems worse than the o...
A Family Tradition: Making Chocolates
Nothing draws families together like shared experiences. When I was growing up, among other things, we made candy every Thanksgiving. Now that we're adults and all of my siblings have children of their own, we still do. Not just any candy, either--ha...
The All-Purpose Guru is consolidating some of its purposes!
I have decided it is time to separate The All-Purpose Guru into separate blogs in order to keep like things together. Beginning today, all of my musical posts are at Musicology for Everyone and all of my Biblical posts are at Grace and Judgment. I wi...
When "classical" music was "popular"--Part 2
My first article on this topic explored how Rossini's music was considered "popular" music in the sense of being somehow inferior to "classical" music, although it is now regarded as "classical" music. This one will explore the narrowing of gaps betw...
Finding names in an online library catalog
The strength of a library catalog is something called "controlled vocabulary." That is, there is one and only one way to express a subject or the name of a person, organized group, or legal jurisdiction in a catalog. You don't have to know what it is...
Hi David.
Went to your blog and like it's simplicity. Read about the chocolate, and it really seems like you were talking and telling a story. Like it.
Have left a comment at your article about the prayer.
Will certainly visit your blogs again
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