Libraries & Bibliography

“I’m handsome. You’re pretty. Let’s eat peanut butter.”

July 14, 2010

The Old Spice Guy on what a library is for: Stop throwing pigeons.

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Librarians Go Gaga

June 3, 2010

The video says it all. Cred: Sarah Wachter et al.

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“Libraries are love.”

April 29, 2010

In the fall This summer I begin a Master of Library and Information Science program, concentrating on digital libraries and weaving in special collections as I can. After which I will be officially authorized to organize the crap out of stuff. But first, paperwork. Edited a week later because I do not want to have [...]

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Rare books, bridging the physical-digital divide

December 8, 2009

Lengthy for online reading, but worth the eyestrain: “The Book Mechanic: A modern sensibility binds Terry Belanger to old, rare volumes” by Andrew Witmer Some years ago, Terry Belanger found a striking way to reveal the reverence that many citizens of the digital age continue to feel for old books. . . . [He] brings [...]

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