ALA Puts Library Promo on Cereal Boxes
ALA just released this news yesterday: The American Library Association (ALA) is working with Safeway Inc., on a roll-out of the first two of five Safeway-brand cereal boxes with back-panel content about libraries and... [read full story]
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Rare Books Don't Always Live in Glass Cases
STANDING among the 10,000 rare books in the stacks of the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Bruce Bradley, the director of the history of science special collections, pulls out a copy of "The Starry Messenger," the revelatory...
Cultured Traveler: Rare Books Don’t Always Live in Glass Cases
as the telescope. They are also on view for the average visitor, albeit one with a decided interest in the sciences who makes a pilgrimage to western Missouri, where the sprawling red-brick library sits majestically on a...
Library books go the way of the dodo
Maples and meandering footpaths? So the venerable boarding school west of Boston -- the first in the United States to admit both boys and girls -- last summer undertook another first: It began getting rid of most of the...
Wednesday, October28, 2009
One of my favorite sections at the library… The Nines or the 900s section – mainly geography and history. As I was walking down to the post office, a lady stops in the middle of the road (you can do that here without getting...
Can we just give the problem to the libraries? [The Book of Trogool]
I pointed out Mike Lesk's slideshow in my last tidbits post, finding it a good critical précis of the data problem. It's pleasantly aware of human problems, human problems many treatments of cyberinfrastructure (including,...
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