authors’ libraries
Conor Friedersdorf sends me a link to this story about attempts to recover and reassemble the libraries of dead...
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information, please!
Yes, the desk is made of books! (Via Survival of the Book.) (Not really the kind of survival we book-lovers want, but...
Peak Book
Will Self: The above leads me to suspect that we indeed may have passed that numinous — but for all that, real —...
“a journey through my own library”
From Susan Hill’s new book Howards End Is On the Landing: It began like this. I went to the shelves on the landing to...
a librarian rants
Here: No sooner do I bristle at the college rankings and decide to ignore them for another year, than along comes the...
Friday linkage
Sorry for the light posting — I’ve been a bit under the weather. Here are a few links to keep you occupied: The...
the good old days
Charlie Stross: As for the intellectual property, I try not to get too worked up about it. There’s a lot of...
an example to us all
From the Guardian: A 91-year-old woman from Stranraer in south-west Scotland is believed to be Britain's most...
shelving
Wonderful post at A Working Library about libraries, ways of organizing information, and the varieties of metadata: Aby...