Endrina Tay
@etay
Librarian, cataloger, foodie, music-lover, lifelong learner ...
Very fun ... seeing pirate-speak interface on LibraryThing (librarything.com) for Talk Like a Pirate Day !
Was lying in bed about to fall asleep 9 mins ago when my bed shook for about 10 secs. I guess we're not done with the quakes yet ...
Wow, never been in an earthquake before, let alone a magnitude 5.9 one ! That was quite a shake here at Monticello ! #earthquake
Happy birthday, Thomas Jefferson ! You'd be 268 years old today if people could live that long ...
Just heard Clay Jenkinson's latest Thomas Jefferson Hour, featuring the discovery of Jefferson's books at Wash. U. http://bit.ly/ejasj3
Annette Gordon-Reed likens Thomas Jefferson to a theme park - so much to explore ... during Q & A for lecture at UVA on Apr 5, 2011.
Library of Congress releases new finding aid search interface for its rich manuscript collections: http://findingaids.loc.gov/
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Research Guides: Finding Aids Help and Documentation: New Finding Aids System Coming!
Finding Aids to Archival Collections at the Library of Congress contains finding aids for the special collections held by Library Divisions and Research Centers. Use this site to locate finding aids...
Just got to meet Nicholas A. Basbanes (http://bit.ly/di5HdJ) and his family visiting Monticello with TJ Papers Chief Ed., Jeff Looney today.
RT @edmj: Join NYT's A Moment in Time project - snap a picture at 15:00 GMT (11:00 am EDT) Sun, May 2. http://nyti.ms/aIdKEC. Very cool.
Headed to the Soundscapes in Jefferson's America symposium beginning at the University of Virginia today. http://bit.ly/bCvuca
Kudos to Phil Hamilton & CNU folks for a well-organized VA Forum, plus the Hampton Rds cruise - a fitting way to end a great event! #vf10
Colleague Diane Ehrenpreis speaks about Martha Wayles Skelton, wife of Jefferson, and her support of Virginia's troops in the 1780s. #vf10
Just heard about Library of Virginia's Virginia Memory site for K-12 resources. Very cool. #vf10
At least Jefferson recognized that indigenous peoples were responsible for the burial mounds he found - C. McDaid #vf10
Was Jefferson the father of American archaeology? Ron Hatzenbuehler looks at this now. "It's not what you find but what you find out." #vf10
Anna Berkes now speaking about Marie Kimball - first curator of Monticello. Go, Anna! #vf10
Christopher McDaid speaking on the cultural heritage of Mulberry Island & Fort Eustis, which has 229 archaeological sites. #vf10
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