Jailbreak your library?
Wed 7 Apr 2010, 9:40 am
Some disconnected thoughts on librarians, vendors, Scylla, Charybdis.
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Archive for the "Collections" Category
Shady emails and comments about Sergio Rivera-Ayala’s new book, El discurso colonial en textos novohispanos: espacio, cuerpo y poder
Sun 27 Sep 2009, 10:35 pm
Update 7 Oct 2009: Professor Rivera-Ayala responded to my email and I posted our exchange. This is the kind of thing I can’t stand. A senior student sent Iris Jastram at Pegasus Librarian an email suggesting that she buy Sergio Rivera-Ayala’s new book, El discurso colonial en textos novohispanos: espacio, cuerpo y poder. That’s a [...]
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Zine repository on Flickr
Thu 15 Mar 2007, 8:28 pm
Interesting post on zines, Before the blog – zines from the 80s… and accompanying flickr photo pool The Piran Café zine repository.
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Browsing bits
Thu 31 Aug 2006, 11:41 pm
Bound volumes of journals covered by JSTOR online. There is a very interesting article in the September 1 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled Library Renovation Leads to Soul Searching at Cal Poly (note: that link will self-destruct after five days. Chronicle subscribers can always use this permalink to the article). It would [...]
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Denver Zine Fest, March 11, 2006
Mon 20 Feb 2006, 2:33 pm
Updated 2006-03-07: I changed the image to link to the new version of the flyer. Make sure and read Stevyn’s comment for the time and place. I don’t know if I’ll be able to make it, but the Denver Zine Library and others are sponsoring the Denver Zine Fest on Saturday March 11 from 10-6 [...]
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Building a blog to the 18th century
Tue 14 Feb 2006, 8:29 pm
Update (2/22): Overholt has added photos. Now you can see engravings used as an anti-piracy device, watercolors as early paint-by numbers, sloppy printing, and a bookplate of a rotund jester. Thanks, John! Jessy has pointed me to a wonderful blog that I hadn’t seen before: Hyde Collection Catablog, “The world’s greatest Samuel Johnson collection, one [...]
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The ubiquitous library
Thu 8 Sep 2005, 11:22 am
A brief write-up of Lowry, Charles B. “Let’s Call it the ‘Ubiquitous Library’ Instead…” portal: Libraries and the Academy 5 (2005) 293-296.
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