The Catcher in the Rye census

Fri 29 Jan 2010, 10:55 am

Let’s get photos of as many copies of the Catcher in the Rye as we can.

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Form and content

Wed 6 Jan 2010, 1:36 pm

Today’s class was about works where text and form are intrinsically linked.

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Fifteen things about me and books

Tue 5 Jan 2010, 1:12 pm

My contribution to an old meme that we resuscitated for the History and Future of the Book class.

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History and Future of the Book

Sun 3 Jan 2010, 11:23 pm

The class I’m teaching with Jessy Randall starts tomorrow.

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Outflanked

Wed 25 Nov 2009, 1:44 pm

My library’s copy of El discurso colonial en textos novohispanos.

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Infinite Summer: read Infinite Jest with a few thousand pals this summer

Fri 22 May 2009, 11:58 am

A plan to get people all over the world to read David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest during the summer of 2009.

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Libraries are free, but books aren’t

Mon 18 May 2009, 2:27 pm

Send a book to the Louisville Free Public Library from their Amazon wish list.

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Required reading on the history and future of the book?

Wed 18 Feb 2009, 3:56 pm

What would you assign a class of undergrads to read about “the history and future of the book?”

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Alternative Press Expo 2008

Sun 2 Nov 2008, 10:36 am

Another event that sounds great that I couldn’t attend: Alternative Press Expo 2008.

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David Foster Wallace, dead at 46

Sat 13 Sep 2008, 11:16 pm

David Foster Wallace hanged himself last night. He was a complicated character and an important author to me personally.

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I’m writing ’bout the book I read

Sat 6 Sep 2008, 12:20 pm

Tagged by The Sheck, I run down how many of the books I have read of those most frequently tagged “unread” on Library Thing.

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Tagging books

Wed 16 Apr 2008, 6:24 pm

Low-tech tagging.

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Libraries and True Fans

Tue 1 Apr 2008, 8:25 am

Tim Spalding wonders how libraries missed an interesting and important self-published book. I wonder how long we can afford to keep missing them, and what we can do to stop?

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Who needs a Kindle?

Fri 29 Feb 2008, 11:50 am

Turn your laptop 90 degrees: instant ebook reader.

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All your ebooks are belong to us

Mon 19 Nov 2007, 10:29 pm

Amazon Kindle? You have got to be kidding.

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How 1983 wasn’t like “1983”

Tue 25 Sep 2007, 10:27 pm

A look at C. A. Cutter’s 1883 futuristic essay, “The Buffalo Public Library in 1983,” available on Google Books.

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A study of scanning habits

Wed 15 Aug 2007, 11:32 pm

Books, I believe, aren’t just “containers” for “texts,” but something more problematic. I look at Paul Duguid’s article on Tristram Shandy and Google Books, and quote Dorothea Salo for good measure.

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LOLIndex

Wed 6 Jun 2007, 4:24 pm

Some funny stuff I found in the index of David Weinberger’s book Everything is Miscellaneous, plus a brief reaction to the book in general.

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John Porcellino, King Cat Classix signing at Tutt Library

Thu 26 Apr 2007, 4:09 pm

John Porcellino, King Cat Classix signing at Tutt Library
Originally uploaded by Colorado College Tutt Library.

There are a lot of things that I want to write about, but being sick and other responsibilities are keeping me away. I have a short list of “tl;dw” (for “too long; didn’t write”) posts [...]

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Look it up, kid

Sat 27 Jan 2007, 10:10 pm

“Sea-Anemones” from The sea and its wonders, by M. and E. Kirby, via Google Book Search

I enjoyed Ryan Deschamps’ post earlier this month, The Crux of the Biscuit: Do I Believe in Libraries?, in which Deschamps asks “Will telling my son to go to the library be more effective for his life-long-learning than telling him [...]

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Name that book: a fiction subject headings quiz

Wed 26 Apr 2006, 10:13 am

I have often thought that Library of Congress Subject Headings for fiction were kind of funny in they way they can reduce a complex work of art into a few words. And the “– Fiction” part just seems funny to me, as in “Middle-aged men — Fiction.”

So here is a a little quiz: nine classic [...]

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News flash: library blogger not in habit of sustained reading of complex texts

Mon 12 Dec 2005, 10:58 pm

I have been pretty busy this year (added a son to the family, started this blog, showed up for work most days), but one thing I haven’t been doing much of – to my shame as a librarian – is reading.

About a year ago, I gave 43 Things, the social software site for goals – [...]

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