Kellie M. Walsh » Libraries & Bibliography

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

Kellie — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:12:51 +0000

The Old Spice Guy on what a library is for:

Stop throwing pigeons.

Librarians Go Gaga

Kellie — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:16:59 +0000

The video says it all.

Cred: Sarah Wachter et al.

“Libraries are love.”

Kellie — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:31:21 +0000

~~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 to wait until fall to get started.

*Quote by Laura.

Photo: cohdra from morguefile.com

Rare books, bridging the physical-digital divide

Kellie — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:49:46 +0000

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 an old volume to class, speaks about its binding and typography, and then, still discussing the book, rips it in half and tears it into pieces. As his horrified students watch in disbelief, Belanger tosses the shards into a nearby trash can and murmurs, “Bibliography isn’t for sissies.”

. . .

Eschewing the false opposition between technology and the book, Belanger has brilliantly made the rapid development of new digital technologies one of his leading arguments for the preservation of rare books. . . . He believes that books do certain things well and digital technologies do other things well. The two should coexist without trying to eliminate each other.

I want that job.