July 2011
31 posts
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
– Joseph Brodsky (via bookstorecouture)
“A fierce paradox exists at the heart of every school system. A society needs to...”
– Manguel, Alberto. 2010. A reader on reading. New Haven, [Conn.]: Yale University Press, p. 161.
“I’m no Luddite, and the fact is if you know what you want in out-of-print books,...”
– William S. Reese, Books in Hard Times
“Where is human nature so weak as in a book store?”
– Henry Ward Beecher via The Writer’s Almanac (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
Librarians in the U.S. from 1880-2009 →
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Why Preserve Books? The New Physical Archive of... →
Sounds like Brewster Kahle has his head on straight about digitization- bravo, Internet Archive!
Art History is Actually Hilarious →
“Libraries are already, naturally, a part of the safety net, because they empower...”
– Libraries are Part of the Safety Net — No Wonder Governments Hate Them - COLORLINES (via rachelfershleiser) 