Library Cataloging
In a few hours there will be a memorial service down the street for the Columbia astronauts.Here, in the towns surrounding the Johnson Space Center, astronauts make their homes. It is not remarkable to know an astronaut. They are at church, the PTA, play Irish music at the local pub, sing in the community choir. They are our neighbors, acquaintances and friends.Given this level of daily interaction, we forget they are also heroes, heroes in a mythic, Joseph Campbell sense. These men and women risk their lives to go into the void of space and bring back something to the rest of the community. They know the danger involved. There is the memorial at Cape Canaveral with the names of the 10 who have lost their lives. They know the Russians have lost cosmonauts. Yet knowing this danger they face still go there and back again for the good of the community.They go about this without much fanfare. The news rarely makes more than a mention of a flight. Presidents, kings and generals have the headlines. Like Frodo and Sam on Mount Doom; the eyes of the world are elsewhere, and the real important event is quietly being done. The astronauts go about their quest to broaden our horizons and understanding.Sometimes they do not return. Then we are all the poorer.
- Shuttle Launch
So excited. I'm going to the STS-135 shuttle launch as part of the NASATweetup. That means I get to view from the press area. That's as close as anyone except the astronauts and a couple of guys in a tank....
- Houston, Texas Area
This year?s pre-LPSC Education and Public Outreach workshop explores "Pre-Service Teacher Preparation and the Role of the Earth and Space Science Community," and is being held immediately prior to the start of the 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference...
- Lpi In Il
I have to mention that my co-workers will be conducting a workshop in Illinois. EXPLORE! Fun with Science Program Wednesday & Thursday, December 1 & 2 8:30 a.m.? 5:00 p.m.Target Audience: Public Librarians and School Librarians working with middle...
- Oclc
Tim Bray, well know in the XML crowd, has an essay on OCLC on his site.It's Time, Long past time, in fact, to take the worlds' OPACs, and especially WorldCat, and build a general-purpose research tool for everybody; with this and Google we would...
- Disaster
MOUNT STROMLO OBSERVATORY DESTROYED BY FIREThe Australian National University expresses concern and sympathy to those who have lost so much in the Canberra fires.In particular, our thoughts are with the families of those that died in the fires.The Mount...
Library Cataloging
Heroes
In a few hours there will be a memorial service down the street for the Columbia astronauts.Here, in the towns surrounding the Johnson Space Center, astronauts make their homes. It is not remarkable to know an astronaut. They are at church, the PTA, play Irish music at the local pub, sing in the community choir. They are our neighbors, acquaintances and friends.Given this level of daily interaction, we forget they are also heroes, heroes in a mythic, Joseph Campbell sense. These men and women risk their lives to go into the void of space and bring back something to the rest of the community. They know the danger involved. There is the memorial at Cape Canaveral with the names of the 10 who have lost their lives. They know the Russians have lost cosmonauts. Yet knowing this danger they face still go there and back again for the good of the community.They go about this without much fanfare. The news rarely makes more than a mention of a flight. Presidents, kings and generals have the headlines. Like Frodo and Sam on Mount Doom; the eyes of the world are elsewhere, and the real important event is quietly being done. The astronauts go about their quest to broaden our horizons and understanding.Sometimes they do not return. Then we are all the poorer.
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in MankindThis will be my only posting today, it is time for reflection.
Therefor, Do Not Ask For Whom the Bell Tolls, It Tolls For Thee
- Shuttle Launch
So excited. I'm going to the STS-135 shuttle launch as part of the NASATweetup. That means I get to view from the press area. That's as close as anyone except the astronauts and a couple of guys in a tank....
- Houston, Texas Area
This year?s pre-LPSC Education and Public Outreach workshop explores "Pre-Service Teacher Preparation and the Role of the Earth and Space Science Community," and is being held immediately prior to the start of the 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference...
- Lpi In Il
I have to mention that my co-workers will be conducting a workshop in Illinois. EXPLORE! Fun with Science Program Wednesday & Thursday, December 1 & 2 8:30 a.m.? 5:00 p.m.Target Audience: Public Librarians and School Librarians working with middle...
- Oclc
Tim Bray, well know in the XML crowd, has an essay on OCLC on his site.It's Time, Long past time, in fact, to take the worlds' OPACs, and especially WorldCat, and build a general-purpose research tool for everybody; with this and Google we would...
- Disaster
MOUNT STROMLO OBSERVATORY DESTROYED BY FIREThe Australian National University expresses concern and sympathy to those who have lost so much in the Canberra fires.In particular, our thoughts are with the families of those that died in the fires.The Mount...