Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Reading at Nyariga Community Library
- Recent activities of Ghana library coordinator in Upper East
- Cleaning up at Nyariga Community Library
- Photos from Gowrie-Kunkua Community Library
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- Séance d’encadrement des élèves du primaire
- Nighttime hours at Gowrie-Kunkua Community Library
- Animation d’une séance de lecture guidée à l’école Sainte Thérèse de Jésus
- Achat de livres de nouveaux pour le Centre de Lecture et d’Études de Béréba/CLEB
- EIFL Public Library Innovation Award: Innovative public and community library AI literacy training programmes
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Privatized bathrooms in Chamartin train station. Pretty weird imho
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A Zulueta clip set to music
Went to Reina Sofia museum today in Madrid and two degrees later … from Zulueta to Los Planetas to here… https://youtu.be/72pAMC8QORI?si=m7308kxUfsCJEtJn
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Cantinflas!
A Cantinflas movie on the tv in our Airbnb in Madrid. I’m twelve years old again.
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Bonsai at the Madrid botanical garden
The paintings by Goya, Velasquez, Fortuny, and El Greco are amazing in the nearby Prado but you can’t take photos in the museum and really what can I add about Las Meninas, just a spectacularly amazing painting? The bonsai are … Continue reading
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Just arrived in Madrid
Will write more about our very smooth travel later, but for now just want to say that it’s nice to be in Madrid!
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Colours of Time, a lovely French film for a trans-Atlantic plane flight
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Traveling in Spain
I will be traveling in Spain for the next couple of weeks riding bicycles in the Galicia area. Very much looking forward to this break. We will be in the towns of Lugo, Orense, Pontevedra. will try to post pictures … Continue reading
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Continuing to adopt terms: tenure-stream and teaching-stream
Last year, our Faculty Senate President suggested widespread adoption of these terms. No binary set is ever going to cover the complexity of academic appointments, but, as he pointed out, defining one group of faculty as “non” is just not … Continue reading
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Discretion demands accountability
Discretion demands accountability, is my motto for the year. Does not show up in jstor or Google Scholar or Google Books, though it does show up in a few AI-related web articles…. So, at my discretion, I declare myself the … Continue reading
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Reading June-July 2026
La casa verde, Mario Vargas LlosaWhat we can know: A novel, Ian McEwanI, Claudius, Robert GravesLa Hojarasca, Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe Dream Hotel, Leila LalamiSplendeurs et misères des courtisanes, Honoré de BalzacNives by Sacha NaspiniCatastrophe, Richard PosnerEl Amor en los tiempos … Continue reading
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Random quick thoughts on AI
In conversation with a friend….I think “unemployment” and “no paid work” are the wrong likely descriptors of 2050…. possible, but unlikely…. For it to be likely, to me, one would have to lean harder on the dystopia…. the rich and … Continue reading
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Recent reading March-May 2026
The Abyss, by Marguerite Yourcenour. Historical fiction set in medieval times after the plague. Interesting but a little too didactic and not enough plot, for my taste. In Ascension, by Martin MacInnes. Sci-fi about a discovery deep in an ocean … Continue reading
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Michael Kevane 