tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38343300397334565372024-03-12T16:47:08.615-07:00Keeping TimeA Digital Commonplace BookMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comBlogger446125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-7755174431595199392013-05-15T10:10:00.001-07:002013-05-15T10:10:28.412-07:00Keeping Time ElsewhereI've begun using Tumblr: <a href="http://forkeepingtime.tumblr.com/">http://forkeepingtime.tumblr.com/</a>.Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-14372041927887874872012-12-07T07:44:00.001-08:002012-12-07T07:44:48.142-08:00Borges, Memory, and the LibraryFrom "<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/This-Is-Your-Brain-on-Borges/135964/">This Is Your Brain on Borges</a>":<br />
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In Buenos Aires, he contacted the author's widow, María
Kodama, and after several long discussions, she invited him to visit Borges's
private library. Quiroga made repeated visits, experiencing what he says felt
like an "intimate conversation" with the icon of Argentine
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"It was like a treasure," he says, describing his
sojourn in Borges's stacks, where he found books by William James, Gustav
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Quiroga was excited by Borges's annotations. Not marginalia
exactly. Borges liked to write notes on the title page or last page of a book,
in a minuscule hand, before he went blind. Later he would ask those reading to
him to write the annotations. ... </div>
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We live in a "Funes kind of world," he writes,
suggesting that the media's bombardment of our senses gives a feeling of the
inundation that Borges's protagonist [in "Funes the
Memorious"] endures.</div>
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Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-1162843096388544442012-12-05T07:03:00.003-08:002012-12-05T07:03:55.968-08:00Open Access Saves From "<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Open-Access-to-Research-Can/136065/">Open Access to Scientific Research Can Save Lives</a>":<br />
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Every institution of higher learning should ensure that peer-reviewed versions of all future scholarly articles by its faculty members are made open-access through a designated repository that captures the institution's intellectual output.</blockquote>
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<br />Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-21148507838314312252012-10-31T14:29:00.001-07:002012-10-31T14:29:16.360-07:00Reading List for Orbis Cascade Alliance Council MeetingA reading list distributed to Orbis Cascade Alliance library directors in preparation for a strategic planning discussion to begin next week:<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2012-horizon-report-HE.pdf">Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/issues/value/val_report.pdf">Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Study</a></li>
<li><a href="http://crln.acrl.org/content/73/6/311.full">2012 top ten trends in academic libraries: A review of the trends and issues affecting academic libraries in higher education</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/87257452/Redefining-the-academic-library-managing-the-migration-to-digital-information-services">Redefining the Academic Library</a></li>
<li><a href="http://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/18649/Think%20like%20a%20STARTUP.pdf?sequence=1">Think Like A Startup: a white paper to inspire library entrepreneurialism</a></li>
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Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-27785119095442923572012-10-01T17:32:00.000-07:002012-10-01T17:42:13.613-07:00A Book Only in the Abstract Sense?One of my companions today has been <a href="http://spu.worldcat.org/oclc/502389441"><i>The Oxford Companion to the Book</i></a>. While reading the online version, I discovered that I was only reading a book in "the abstract, non-corporeal sense":<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">book (1): A word that has long been used interchangeably and variously to signify any of the many kinds of text that have been circulated in written or printed forms, and the material objects through which those words and images are transmitted. The ancestor of the modern word ‘book’ is used in both senses in Anglo-Saxon documents. This </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;">Oxford Companion</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> is a book in the abstract, non-corporeal sense (and can be thus described in its Internet manifestation), and also in the physical sense of a three-dimensional object in </span>codex<span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.27272605895996px;"> format. </span></blockquote>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-20308022519793887092012-09-27T09:18:00.001-07:002012-09-27T09:18:36.609-07:00The Paradox of Writing"The paradox lies in the fact that the deadness of the text, its removal from the living human lifeworld, its rigid visual fixity, assures its endurance and its potential for being resurrected into limitless living contexts by a potentially infinite number of living readers." --Walter Ong, "<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=K5eDQkGWkTcC&lpg=PA80&ots=ZYvk6vVJDU&dq=%22The%20paradox%20lies%20in%20the%20fact%20that%20the%20deadness%20of%20the%20text%2C%20its%20removal%20from%20the%20living%20human%20lifeworld%2C%20its%20rigid%20visual%20fixity%2C%20assures%20its%20endurance%20and%20it%20potential%20for%20being%20resurrected%20into%20limitless%20living%20contexts%20by%20a%20potentially%20infinite%20number%20of%20living%20readers.%22&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q=%22The%20paradox%20lies%20in%20the%20fact%20that%20the%20deadness%20of%20the%20text,%20its%20removal%20from%20the%20living%20human%20lifeworld,%20its%20rigid%20visual%20fixity,%20assures%20its%20endurance%20and%20it%20potential%20for%20being%20resurrected%20into%20limitless%20living%20contexts%20by%20a%20potentially%20infinite%20number%20of%20living%20readers.%22&f=false">Orality and Literacy: Writing Restructures Consciousness</a>"Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-32955934985483492922012-09-23T21:42:00.001-07:002012-09-23T21:42:15.643-07:00The Advent of the Unwritten Book in the New Atlantis"The Book contained all the canonical books of the Old and New Testament, according as you have them ... and the Apocalypse itself, and some other books of the New Testament, which were not at that time written, were nevertheless in the Book."Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-31706066667236628102012-09-17T08:17:00.002-07:002012-09-17T08:17:59.582-07:00The Cyrus Cylinder: Historical Object and EmblemNeil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, traces 2600 years of Middle Eastern history through the Cyrus Cylinder:<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QpmsftF2We4?rel=0" width="560"></iframe>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-47601434990060925642012-09-08T16:34:00.001-07:002012-09-08T16:38:57.846-07:00New Form of an Old IcebreakerAt the end of Mary Shelley's apocalyptic novel The Last Man, a story of the future told from ancient Sibylline leaves, the last man sets off in a boat with "scant stores" and "a few books." If you were the last human, what books would you select?Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-3138877218951964812012-07-26T09:52:00.000-07:002012-07-26T09:52:04.698-07:00For the Record<br />
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More on <a href="http://forkeepingtime.blogspot.com/2012/07/from-ebooks-to-networked-books.html">the
Bible App and YouVersion</a>, from “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-c-crosby-dmin/the-new-roman-roads-techn_1_b_1577636.html">The
New Roman Roads: Technology and Bible Reading</a>” (<i>HuffPost</i>):<span style="background-color: white;"> </span></div>
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Several Bible publishers and license holders, however, have
allowed sites such as YouVersion and BibleGateway to publish their versions
digitally since they have found it has not hindered print sales, but has
actually increased them and provided broad network of promotion.</blockquote>
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<br />Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-32175277426724780822012-07-03T16:35:00.001-07:002012-07-03T16:35:10.211-07:00From Ebooks to Networked Books<span style="background-color: white;">Hugh McGuire asks: What is the difference between an ebook
and the internet? Ebooks can be made to look like print books, but they are
more like the internet. The best future for the book would be p+e+i. E.g., </span><a href="http://www.youversion.com/press" style="background-color: white;">YouVersion</a><span style="background-color: white;">: a “Bible App [that] allows
users to read the Bible, share verses with their social networks, bookmark
their favorite passages, and more.”</span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/T5iNeDwve1U?rel=0" width="560"></iframe>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-7694519953613632022012-03-16T17:08:00.000-07:002012-03-16T17:08:11.493-07:00Charles Williams on Librarians<div class="MsoNormal">From “The Masque of Perusal,” originally performed before the staff of the Oxford University Press in the Amen House library, London, February 8, 1929:<b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">ALEXIS:</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">But let me bring you to the Librarian,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Who—as the song goes, through the city chanted—</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Will give such information as is wanted.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">ALL:</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">On the ancient laws of Solon,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> On the mechanics and on men,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">On the place of either colon,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> On the acuter abdomen,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">On physic for the body and the mind</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The Keeper offers help of every kind.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">On the secret name of Sunday,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> On the causes of the war,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">On the rise of Mrs. Grundy,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> Khalif, pope, and emperor,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">And on the causes of all joy and woe,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The Keeper lets her information flow.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><o:p></o:p></div>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-69513116137017766572012-02-24T11:04:00.000-08:002012-02-24T11:04:21.413-08:00Another Apologia for the Personal Library<div class="MsoNormal">Leon Wieseltier, <a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/washington-diarist/magazine/100979/library-books-paper-texts-voluminous?passthru=ZTllZTY1YTkxZTE3NzY2YTNkZTBjZmI3ZDRjYTliNDE">over at the <i>The New Republic</i></a>, contemplates his personal library as it is being moved. (<a href="http://www.curatormagazine.com/michaelpaulus/defending-my-library/">Sound familiar?</a>) He says: </div><blockquote class="tr_bq">The library, like the book, is under assault by the new technologies, which propose to collect and to deliver texts differently, more efficiently, outside of space and in a rush of time.</blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">But as he considers the crates piled high in the hall, he defends his volumes: </div><blockquote class="tr_bq">My books are not dead weight, they are live weight—matter infused by spirit, every one of them, even the silliest. They do not block the horizon; they draw it. They free me from the prison of contemporaneity: one should not live only in one’s own time. A wall of books is a wall of windows. And a book is more than a text: even if every book in my library is on Google Books, my library is not on Google Books. A library has a personality, a temperament.</blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Much of this resonated with me, but then he quotes Borges—“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library”—and concludes that, “if paradise lies in the future, it will certainly not be a library. A different arrangement awaits our minds.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Perhaps the promise of the paradisiacal library is that it will manifest a different arrangement or pattern. Until then, our libraries “reveal and represent to us what was, what is, and what is to come” (that’s me, <a href="http://www.curatormagazine.com/michaelpaulus/defending-my-library/">defending <i>my</i> library</a>”).</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-90140102856369996432012-02-13T09:10:00.000-08:002012-02-13T09:10:47.639-08:00Envisioning Bibliotheca 2.0<div class="MsoNormal">From Project Information Literacy, <a href="http://projectinfolit.org/st/schnapp.asp">an interview with Jeffrey Schnapp</a>: </div><blockquote class="tr_bq">the most exciting design tasks of our era lie at the seam where the digital meets the physical. So designing libraries for the digital millennium is less a matter of updating a building type with tens of centuries of history and tradition than an endeavor that cuts right to the heart of some of the most pressing challenges confronting contemporary architecture: how to devise new typologies of public space, new kinds of furnishings and appliances, new places for research, teaching, learning, and of interaction and play around/with knowledge, new citadels of expertise that “speak the language” of the era of mobile devices, ubiquitous networks, and the world wide web. What is a <i>public</i> space in an era in which a majority of individuals walk around in bubbles containing information and social networks?</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">I'm confident about the enduring vitality of the library as a public institution. What is in crisis is <i>a certain historical iteration of the library</i>, not the library itself. …</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The notion of the library as a place of retreat … bespeaks an urge to seek out alternatives to the everyday: expanded horizons; deeper states of being (concentration, communion, silent contemplation); participation and inclusion in the life of communities dedicated to knowledge, science or faith; travel to distant real or fictional worlds.</blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-1912991491136778282012-01-12T17:35:00.000-08:002012-01-12T17:35:29.844-08:00The Real Conflict: Sharing or Not Sharing Knowledge<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">In “</span><a href="http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/01/opinion/barbara-fister/the-shock-of-the-old-peer-to-peer-review/#_">The Shock of the Old</a><span lang="DE">” (<i>Libray Journal</i>), Barbara Fister discusses the </span><a href="http://www.educationadvisoryboard.com/ulc.asp" jquery17107618627540527569="33" target="_blank">Education Advisory Board</a>’s report <a href="http://www.educationadvisoryboard.com/pdf/23634-EAB-Redefining-the-Academic-Library.pdf"><em>Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Library Services</em></a>. She says that this report does not predict the future but rather describes the present. And the present isn’t really about the shift from print to digital—it’s about sharing knowledge:</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">In the end, unless we really screw this up, the future will more like the past than the present. Libraries were built on the principle that the advancement of knowledge depends on a disinterested search for meaning, not profits, and that sharing is essential for that search. Libraries have always been a demonstration of the wealth of networks. Now that the networked world has caught up, libraries could serve as a model for sharing knowledge in a way that advances us all.</blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-20676261749221415982012-01-03T22:16:00.000-08:002012-01-03T22:16:15.619-08:00For the Record<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">I’m <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/mjpaulusjr">tweeting</a> now. Perhaps this will last longer than my <a href="http://forkeepingtime.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-personal-record-keeping.html">Facebook phase</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-58594089485615933162011-12-29T09:18:00.000-08:002011-12-29T09:20:29.838-08:00In the Coming Year ...Remember to <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/tjan/2011/12/make-time-for-time.html">make time for time</a>. And books.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5cemAGclkhyZCls8e1hxxjfWGnQuWEGmCKt1TQfu26TK-5GW8X46ODNNefQ0HdQMYYPkdU9WxRTBTW_5oWaKBua5L-BmIc4xwbrw0ClkDeg_Yhm2DThxap08aVCc6lFAsFLaQ2tV-Ubc/s640/blogger-image--559167382.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5cemAGclkhyZCls8e1hxxjfWGnQuWEGmCKt1TQfu26TK-5GW8X46ODNNefQ0HdQMYYPkdU9WxRTBTW_5oWaKBua5L-BmIc4xwbrw0ClkDeg_Yhm2DThxap08aVCc6lFAsFLaQ2tV-Ubc/s640/blogger-image--559167382.jpg" /></a></div>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-4972350118149100052011-12-20T14:36:00.000-08:002011-12-20T14:46:31.546-08:00Epicentral, Emblematic, and Exciting<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGdKdSsGhfkih4qT-B2nIPkniBEj4A8VVE_dpofn8mjRtIvACjPQvyJ50GrhLyoX2TW02BfwYZYR_NrE8_3g5Y_VRs6vNr65cFckfH-Z_8UNoF0_z9kCdeShN0ZCP4VuXnrUU94BNR1KQ/s1600/Suzzallo+Library+Reading+Room.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGdKdSsGhfkih4qT-B2nIPkniBEj4A8VVE_dpofn8mjRtIvACjPQvyJ50GrhLyoX2TW02BfwYZYR_NrE8_3g5Y_VRs6vNr65cFckfH-Z_8UNoF0_z9kCdeShN0ZCP4VuXnrUU94BNR1KQ/s200/Suzzallo+Library+Reading+Room.jpg" width="150" /></a>From “<a href="http://flavorwire.com/240819/the-25-most-beautiful-college-libraries-in-the-world">The 25 Most Beautiful College Libraries in the World</a>” (<span lang="EN">Flavorpill</span>):</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">The college library, whether ornate or modern, digital or dusty, is in many ways the epicenter of the college experience — at least for some students. It is at once a shining emblem of vast, acquirable knowledge, a place for deep discussions and meetings of the mind, and of course, a big building full of books, which, as far as we’re concerned, is exciting enough. Colleges and universities are understandably quite proud of their libraries, which can be a selling point for prospective students and donating alumni alike, and they often become the most well-designed and beautifully adorned buildings on campus. To that end, and perhaps to inspire your studies a bit, we’ve collected a few of the most beautiful college and university libraries in the world, from Portugal to France to Boston.</blockquote><div class="MsoNormal">Included are two libraries I've spent some time in, the <a href="http://forkeepingtime.blogspot.com/2008/07/at-bodleian.html">Bodleian</a> and <a href="http://forkeepingtime.blogspot.com/2010/04/book-no-longer-static-and-something-you.html">Suzzallo</a> libraries (the latter of which is pictured above).</div>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-67102607643521428522011-12-16T16:16:00.000-08:002011-12-16T16:16:47.057-08:00Entrepreneurial Library Space<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Over at the <a href="http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/theubiquitouslibrarian/2011/12/15/student-study-space-the-entrepreneurial-model-my-visit-to-techpad/">Ubiquitous Librarian</a>, Brian Matthews considers an </span>“entrepreneurial model” for study space. In the comments section, I highlight <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/11/inventing_the_collaborative_workspace.html">a collaborative work space</a> that I find intriguing. The challenge is to incorporate ideas from non-library spaces into the unique or “<a href="http://forkeepingtime.blogspot.com/2011/09/all-too-common-commons.html">uncommon</a>” learning spaces that libraries provide. <o:p></o:p></div>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-69304731239125494732011-12-07T21:30:00.000-08:002011-12-07T21:30:53.675-08:00Don’t Forget the Books<div class="MsoNormal">From “<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Were-Still-in-Love-With-Books/129971/">We're Still in Love With Books</a>” (<i>The Chronicle</i>):</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">Contrary to many futuristic projections—even from bibliophiles who, as a group, enjoy melancholy reveries—the recent technological revolution has only deepened the affection that many scholars have for books and libraries, and highlighted the need for the preservation, study, and cherishing of both.</blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">From </span>“<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2011/11/30/nb-unbsj-library-commons-noisy-protest.html">UNBSJ Students Protest for Study Space</a>” (CBC):</div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span lang="EN">Students at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John held a protest at the campus Tuesday about a lack of quiet study space … the new $25 million Hans W. Klohn Commons is more like a computer lab and café than a library, with students clustered around tables chatting and working in groups. It also comes up short on basics, such as desk space, and even books.</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731975236389355574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834330039733456537.post-31793495551597163652011-11-30T20:41:00.000-08:002011-11-30T20:41:32.850-08:00Another Step Toward Universal Search: Google’s Cultural Institute<div class="MsoNormal">From “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/technology/quietly-google-puts-history-online.html">Quietly, Google Puts History Online</a>” (<i>The Times</i>):</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">The digitization of the [<a href="http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/">Dead Sea Scrolls</a>] was done by <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/google_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Google Inc">Google</a> under a new initiative aimed at demonstrating that the Internet giant’s understanding of culture extends beyond the corporate kind. The Google Cultural Institute plans to make artifacts like the scrolls — from museums, archives, universities and other collections around the world — accessible to any Internet user.</blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">See how this initiative fits within Google’s vision of search: “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTBShTwCnD4">The Evolution of Search</a>” (YouTube).</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Next, they need to figure out how to introduce humor into the discovery process. See “<a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2011/11/20/why-our-brains-make-laugh/l0OWxVcnRpzfyIheFgab5N/story.html">Why Our Brains Make Us Laugh</a>” (<i>The Boston Globe</i>):</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"> our brains make sense of our daily lives via a never ending series of assumptions, based on sparse, incomplete information. All these best guesses simplify our world, give us critical insights into the minds of others, and streamline our decisions. But mistakes are inevitable, and even a small faulty assumption can open the door to bigger and costlier mistakes. …</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Mirth is agnostic of the content, because it’s just the reward for the discovery of a false assumption.</blockquote><br />
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