the sign on my door

I have a double-sided sign on the glass door of my office at the library. When the door is open it says "Lucy Loomis, Library Director, is here," because when I sit at my desk no one can see that I'm actually in my office. When the door is closed and I'm out and about, it says "Lucy Loomis, Library Director, is elsewhere," so people know I'm not actually in there, hiding.

I was just doing a search on flickr for photos of Cape Cod, and what should I find, but this photo, taken by a total stranger. Check it out!

behind the scenes at the sturgis library

I've been taking a series of photos of the "hidden Sturgis Library," partly for fun and partly to highlight our interesting building as we embark on a building preservation project. For those of you who haven't already heard it a zillion times, the Sturgis Library is the oldest library building in the country -- the original portion was built as a meetinghouse in 1644. You can see the photos here.