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 pretty normal [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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 at [...]
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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, [...]
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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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