January 2012
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Day Two - What did I do at my library job? →
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What do I do during a day at work? Find out in... →
Jan 30th
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“I hid behind a mound of earth that had been dug up to make a grave for some old...”
– Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin, 2006, p. 114.
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“If the rumors of the “Great Librarian Massacre” at Harvard are even...”
– “The Great Librarian Massacre of 2012”: a cataloging librarian’s view
Jan 27th
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“13. If you have a bookstore that shares a parking lot with a beauty shop that...”
– 25 Things I learned from opening a bookstore. Via
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“We see the library as not being in the book business, but being in the learning...”
– Libraries Make Room For High-Tech ‘Hackerspaces’ : NPR   (via rachelfershleiser)
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Jan 14th
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“Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed: people reading. Books, I mean, not...”
– My Berlin Airlift By Joshua Cohen
Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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“Like any appropriated buzzword, the term “curation” has become nearly vacant of...”
– Maria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship
Jan 13th
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“Weinberger has written extensively on information and how it’s organized. His...”
– David Weinberger on the future of libraries
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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My blog post on professional networking. Enjoy! →
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Jan 11th
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“It is true that there are plenty of downsides the Kindle books, mostly having to...”
– The Kindle: Not a Book, but a Massive Portable Library (via pith) JCN on books vs. kindles. Especially interesting to me because he is less strictly a book person and more of a content-and-society person. I’m looking forward to his SXSW talk “Shoebox Full of Photos” about digital storage and...
Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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thelifeguardlibrarian: amdial: Libraries & Occupations: A history talk comparing the libraries of today’s Occupation movements in Wall Street and elsewhere to the reading rooms of the Chartist movement of 19th-century Britain by Matthew Battles Matthew Battles knows his libraries. Check out his book Library: An Unquiet History Matthew Battles speaks to libraries and social action!
Jan 9th
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Toward a Taxonomy of Perfumes... →
Jan 9th
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“When you buy a book, you establish a property right in it, just as you do in...”
– Mortimer Adler and Charles van Doren, via Brain Pickings.
Jan 9th
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Jan 8th
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“Copyright issues often mean that there are no digital records of exhibitions....”
Jan 7th