January 2012
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December 2011
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October 2011
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“I wish I had a library card. I would love to have a library card to a university...”
– New York, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vanessa Grigoriadis lays out her media diet. Read more at The Atlantic Wire. (via theatlantic)
September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
4 posts
Info Peripeteia: The telegraph as the Victorian... →
infoperipeteia:
“The development of the telegraph led to a compression of time and space. Tom Standage believes that prior to the telegraph the speed at which information reached its audience was completely dependent on the transport used to disperse that information. The development of the telegraph freed…
May 2011
10 posts
“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books from the shelves, the type...”
– Robert Goolrick, A Reliable Wife (via bookoasis)
NYPL Wire–The New York Public Library: NYPL and... →
nypl:
To toast the 100th birthday of its landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the Library has partnered with Coney Island Brewing Company in Brooklyn to create George Washington’s personal, handwritten beer recipe (a porter), which is located in our Manuscripts and Archives Division along with…
April 2011
4 posts
March 2011
12 posts
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“I kept coming back to the librarians as I talked to people at SXSWi because this...”
– Phoebe Connelly - The Atlantic | SXSW 2011: The Year of the Librarian
Phoebe Connelly offers a refreshing take on this year’s South By Southwest Interactive Festival.
(via nypl)
“Whenever we ask what new technology can do for textual scholars, we must not...”
– Galey, A. (2010). The human presence in digital artifacts. In W. McCarty’s Text and Genre in Reconstruction: Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviours, Products, and Institutions. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2010. (via johnxlibris)
February 2011
6 posts
“I can’t get rid of books. It’s almost like having your thoughts [around you]. I...”
– Keira Knightley, Elle UK, 2011 March (via maced)
January 2011
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