Library Alchemy

Greetings, gentle reader.  I am writing to inform you that, as of this afternoon, the Library Alchemy blog has been outsourced to Alchemy Cats, Inc. 

As co-owner and chief literary cat of Alchemy Cats, Inc., I would like to apologize on behalf of my mistress, the Library Alchemist.  However, she is currently steeped in a higher-than-usual number of tasks and responsibilities.  This is regrettable but, alas, part and parcel of being a public librarian in the last state to pass its budget.  Ergo, my lady is:

• scenario planning
• writing her legislators and governor
• attending meetings, meetings, meetings
• performing reference, reference, reference
• mentoring, mentoring, mentoring
• filling out 1/4 of the 23 Things CE certificates
• number-crunching as fast as she can
• making the most of what’s left of her book budget

And so on.  You get the idea.  Many of you are, to be sure, in the same boat, with the exception that your state had the good taste and breeding to pass a budget in a reasonable amount of time.

Despair not, however!  Alchemy Cats, Inc. is committed to delivering the same high-quality content as Library Alchemy, with the exception of the increasingly frequent references to tuna, naps, and polls about which surfaces in milady’s house are most fun to jump on top of.  My sister insists the windowsill holds pride of place, while I am a staunch defender of the Kingdom of Fridge-top, from which I survey my domain with the hauteur that befits a gentlecat.

To your health, and to the amusement that is sure to result from this outsourcing!  I remain, your humble servant,

Steve “Smoky-cat” McQueen, bart.

for Luscious “Lucky-cat” Jackson, and

LAV, the Library Alchemist

[The moral of this little story is, of course, that if you have a choice between laughter or despair, you should always choose laughter.  I'm staging a coup, and will, hopefully, wrestle the blog back from the feline contingent sometime after October 5].