May 2011
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“Instead of finding things, how about doing things? How about creating localized...”
– Michael Stephens “Stuck in the Past” (Library Journal)
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“lilacs in the spring
raindrops on the string
in Kodachrome”
– Stills by The Ocean Tango
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“A library was a place that suggested the most perfect order, with every book...”
– Theodore Zeldin - Happiness (What’s Next: Top Trends via LISNews)
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New Wine by Amor de Días from forthcoming LP...
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How to get from Waldo to Waldo →
Driving directions from:1107 Harrison Avenue, Cincinnati, OH to:Waldo, KY to:Waldo, OH to:Waldo, ME to:Waldo, FL to:Waldo, AL to:Waldo, MS to:Waldo, AR to:Waldo, NM to:Waldo, KS to:Waldo, IL to:Waldo, WI to:1107 Harrison Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
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“my heart is in the highlands
my heart is not here
my heart is in the highlands...”
– robert burns
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Melvil Dewey: spelling reform advocate
via thelifeguardlibrarian:
batteryparkcity:
Back of circa 1870s envelope with Melvil Dewey Spelling Reform rant.
Here’s a detail:
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“Absurd teacher. L. Scott McGill J Educ 15:267-72 Fall ‘80”
– Education Index July 1980 - June 1981
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Library Job Blog →
This blog is a volunteer effort on the part of several students & former students of the University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies. The goal of this blog is to assist library professionals in their job hunting.
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afuckingrainbow.com →
The Rainbow Website by Noah Venezia, (2006).
The Rainbow Website uses the entire browser window to code a continuous animation of the seven major spectral colors in the rainbow. The colors gently fade between the layers from Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, and back again on a loop. The color selections derive not only from the HTML codes needed for color visualization, but also...
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Impossible Art Ideas: scatter Carl Sagan's ashes... →
Your search - "where is the outer space?" - did... →
Your search - "time traveling gorilla suit" - did... →
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“Libraries take the shape of a versatile cognition environment where information...”
– Wouter Van Acker, “Reconnecting library architecture and the information space,” Art Libraries Journal 35 no. 4, (2010): 33-34.
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“Information only achieves meaning within the library through practices which may...”
– Wouter Van Acker, “Reconnecting library architecture and the information space,” Art Libraries Journal 35 no. 4, (2010): 33.
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“[I]t seems that the library as an information space is trapped between its...”
– Wouter Van Acker, “Reconnecting library architecture and the information space,” Art Libraries Journal 35 no. 4, (2010): 33.
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“As Frank Webster has argued, libraries are public-sphere institutions which...”
– Wouter Van Acker, “Reconnecting library architecture and the information space,” Art Libraries Journal 35 no. 4, (2010): 33.
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“Libraries, often subsidised by the state, offer a space insulated from the logic...”
– Wouter Van Acker, “Reconnecting library architecture and the information space,” Art Libraries Journal 35 no. 4, (2010): 33.
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“[H]ow does the overthrow of matter claimed by cybernetics affect the...”
– Wouter Van Acker, “Reconnecting library architecture and the information space,” Art Libraries Journal 35 no. 4, (2010): 32.
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“While knowledge always implies a subject and a book implies an author,...”
– Wouter Van Acker, “Reconnecting library architecture and the information space,” Art Libraries Journal 35 no. 4, (2010): 32.
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“If the current discourse treats the library no longer as a space of books but as...”
– Wouter Van Acker, “Reconnecting library architecture and the information space,” Art Libraries Journal 35 no. 4, (2010): 29.
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Library As Place: The Value of Common Ground →
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New Museum Lesson Plan: Phenomenon As Medium →
Lesson Plan for grades 9-12
Corresponds to Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other, a past exhibition at The New Museum (June - Sept. 2010).
The unpredictability of nature has plagued the minds of many scholars and researchers throughout history. It comes to no surprise that artists would use the natural sciences and its involvement with phenomena as a departure point for their own...
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“Spoken words also transport information, but not with the self-consciousness...”
– James Gleick, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood.
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“Shopping lists, ephemera, all beneath the Kingston sky, you know?”
– Clientele, A Fading Summer EP
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“Every ambiguous word begins in a cloud of possible alternative interpretations;...”
– James Gleick The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
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The East L.A. Bookstore That Acts Like a Library... →
The bookstore Libros Schmibros is located on a block of buildings in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights that’s far better known for its greasy burritos than it is for literary culture. But David Kipen’s tiny bookshop with the funny name is quite obviously not a pretentious place for out-of-work writers to sneer at the covers of novels. Instead, he’s cultivating a new...
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“And although we’d sworn we’d never become like them, that was...”
– Janne Teller, Nothing
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“Theories permit consciousness to ‘jump over its own shadow,’ to...”
– Herman Weyl, “The Current Epistemological Situation in Mathematics” (1925) quoted in John L. Bell, “Herman Weyl on Intuition and the Continuum,” Philosophia Mathematica 8 no. 3 (2000): 261, quoted in James Gleik “Prologue,” The Information: A History, A Theory, A... 