Librarian Land...

I went on a field trip today for my Art Libraries class to the Yale Arts Library to see the Arts of the Book Collection , to the Art + Architecture Library , and to the Center for British Arts . The tour was with ARLIS, so we got to visit places the public don't get to visit and handle materials that don't normally see light. It was pretty amazing - one of those times in your life where you feel completely out of your league so you stand there quietly amongst museum librarians and pray to God that they don't ask you a question.

The Yale Campus and New Haven is really beautiful; full of eager looking people sporting college sweatshirts and hats. I don't want to sound bitter, but I suppose if I was paying as much for my degree that I would also be as "school spirited." (But maybe it had something to do with the Yale vs. Harvard game today, too.) It was just nice to walk around and pretend to fit in, minus the Yale attire. For lunch, I got all mad-crazy and had Indian food! Tim would have been proud! So I have now satisfied my monthly "try-something-new" resolution. (Every month, since January, I make myself try something "new;" this time it was curry freakish chicken stuff and spinach something and whatever else that was a pretty color at the buffet.) Surprisingly, I liked it!

Some of the highlights of the day: drinking expensive chardonnay in a crystal goblet in an art museum while being surrounded by leather couches and beautiful artwork and people who know way more than me, getting a sweet bookmark that is #10 of 100 in an exhibition encouraging the use of book art, getting to make a new friend (Hi MaryEllen!), and getting to handle books that only important grown-ups get to touch - such as an original edition of Josef Albers' Interaction of Color and other such landmark titles.