Seems like we have started to fall into a routine working at home. Check email, Slack, websites, etc. Listen to the constant 'chatter' on Slack.
Notified others that shipments from Cairo, Islamabad, and Delhi from the Overseas Acqusitions Offices of the Library of Congress at those centers that shipments have stopped until further notice. An email from the head of the Delhi office pictured a very beak town - empty, quiet, shut up, police - I can't image how the poor are going to last through this for 2 weeks or more.
Participated in another daily Zoom from our head librarian - people are helping out people to keep the library and the university oiled. They established a new hosting program, https://uvacreate.virginia.edu, costing $15 a year, where you can set up your own academic website, fully functional - that was in the planning for several years and now it's happened. Some are thinking of setting up a 30-minute coffee Zoom, with any library talk, so we can see faces and pets!
Also participated in another 1 hour Zoom of Yoga - don't know if I did very well - I tried and stretched, breathed.
Good simple meal of salmon, baked potatoes, and string beans this evening - haven't gotten my evening ice cream dish yet.
Worked for about 5 hours late afternoon and evening setting up a video and photos of our South Asian Materials Project zoom 2-hour meeting last Friday to share with that organization. Is it worth it to spend all that time on photos, video editing, sounds, etc?
About 40 photos at SAMP Zooom meeting last Friday
And the 1 minute 28 second video of the Zoom meeting (See note below)
We've got a little rain so the spring flowers are happy again. The four or five feral cats outside seem to be doing well, and inside our cat Kali had taken up sleeping and sleeping and sleeping. She seems unfazed by the C Virus. Maybe she's a Trump supporter? Bite your tongue, Phil!
Note: the last image of the SAMP meeting video is of Marueen Patterson - homage to her since she laid the solid foundation at the U of Chicago for all of our South Asia libraries and librarians in the 1960s and 1970s. In all sorts of ways, personal, leadership, publishing such as her manmoth South Asia Bibliography. Few people also know that, as her graphic of her 1945 identification certificate indications - she was a 'spy' for the OSS. Two women worked in South Asia during that time (1940s, 1950s), Joan Bondurant who wrote a fantastic book on Gandhi's Conquest of Violence, and Julia Child, working for a while with her State Department husband in Ceylon. It's all in the book Sisterhood of Spies. Have a look.
Notified others that shipments from Cairo, Islamabad, and Delhi from the Overseas Acqusitions Offices of the Library of Congress at those centers that shipments have stopped until further notice. An email from the head of the Delhi office pictured a very beak town - empty, quiet, shut up, police - I can't image how the poor are going to last through this for 2 weeks or more.
Participated in another daily Zoom from our head librarian - people are helping out people to keep the library and the university oiled. They established a new hosting program, https://uvacreate.virginia.edu, costing $15 a year, where you can set up your own academic website, fully functional - that was in the planning for several years and now it's happened. Some are thinking of setting up a 30-minute coffee Zoom, with any library talk, so we can see faces and pets!
Also participated in another 1 hour Zoom of Yoga - don't know if I did very well - I tried and stretched, breathed.
Good simple meal of salmon, baked potatoes, and string beans this evening - haven't gotten my evening ice cream dish yet.
Worked for about 5 hours late afternoon and evening setting up a video and photos of our South Asian Materials Project zoom 2-hour meeting last Friday to share with that organization. Is it worth it to spend all that time on photos, video editing, sounds, etc?
About 40 photos at SAMP Zooom meeting last Friday
And the 1 minute 28 second video of the Zoom meeting (See note below)
We've got a little rain so the spring flowers are happy again. The four or five feral cats outside seem to be doing well, and inside our cat Kali had taken up sleeping and sleeping and sleeping. She seems unfazed by the C Virus. Maybe she's a Trump supporter? Bite your tongue, Phil!
Note: the last image of the SAMP meeting video is of Marueen Patterson - homage to her since she laid the solid foundation at the U of Chicago for all of our South Asia libraries and librarians in the 1960s and 1970s. In all sorts of ways, personal, leadership, publishing such as her manmoth South Asia Bibliography. Few people also know that, as her graphic of her 1945 identification certificate indications - she was a 'spy' for the OSS. Two women worked in South Asia during that time (1940s, 1950s), Joan Bondurant who wrote a fantastic book on Gandhi's Conquest of Violence, and Julia Child, working for a while with her State Department husband in Ceylon. It's all in the book Sisterhood of Spies. Have a look.
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