Over the past few months C-Span has been covering each of the Presidential Libraries. I haven’t seen them all, just bits and pieces of them, but the interesting thing is that they really give good insight into each President. It seems to me that the architecture and information displayed really says a [...]
Anthony Grafton of the New Yorker has an excellent article called “Future Reading: Digitization and Its Discontents.” I won’t say too much about it other than it recounts a history of the book/libraries and tries to interpret the impact of digitization of books. I will, however, pull a few quotes out that I [...]
I purposely try to not get political on this blog because that’s not what it’s for so forgive me for referencing an article that is political but one which I think is an extremely well crafted argument for the necessity of libraries. Here’s what I’m talking about:
“When politics gets mean and dumb, you [...]
I thought this was pretty neat considering I know how many students use Facebook. The University of Illinois Library has added an application that you can add to your facebook profile that allows you to search the UI Library catalog while you’re in your profile or someone else’s if they have it added in their [...]
I don’t know if you heard about this or not, but the Billy Graham Library just opened up in Charlotte. You can check out information on it here. There is an interactive map that guides you around the library, a video where Franklin Graham guides you through different parts of the library, and [...]
