that will turn an article that looks like this:
into a nice printable pdf like this:
Friday, December 9, 2011
Print and pdf options in Wikipedia
The wonders of Wikipedia never cease to amaze me. Only today do I discover these print and pdf options 
that will turn an article that looks like this:
into a nice printable pdf like this:
that will turn an article that looks like this:
into a nice printable pdf like this:
Friday, December 2, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Universities under attack
Fritt Ord, the London Review, and the New York Review of Books jointly sponsored a conference last week about the current plight of universities, "Universities Under Attack." You can read Keith Thomas's remarks from the conference at the LRB website. See also Our Universities: Why are they Failing?, Anthony Grafton's review 8 recent books on this topic in the New York Review of Books.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Future of libraries stuff
The future library could be a "fab-lab" - like the one taking shape at the Fayettville Free Library - or it could be something else, depending on the findings of a newly inaugurated Pew study on the Changing Role of Public Libraries and Library Users in the Digital Age .
Saturday, November 12, 2011
LIbrarians as "open source officers"
This NPR story suggests that the Onion was not too far off on its take on CIA's fbook program. And note that there are great opportunities here for social media savvy librarians!
Friday, October 21, 2011
A two bit player
Here's my Twitter character...not real impressive, doesn't even have shoes. Generate your own Twitter infographic at visual.ly
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
What get's digitized?
An editorial in the NYT on the "curious contents of the digital library" alerted me to manybooks.net where all sorts of treasures are to be found, and to the amazing app from the British Library, the British Library 19th Century Collection. How extraordinary to be able to read something like Disraeli's Curiosities of Literature on one's iPad or Kindle!
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Old Russia in Color
See extraordinary color photographs by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky at the fascinating "A Journey Through Slavic Culture" blog. The owner of the blog (whose identity is not readily apparent)writes:
"For those who don’t know yet, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a photographer who’s experience in chemistry created one of the earliest techniques of color photography, which he used to document the scope of the Russian empire prior to the revolution, giving us a glimpse into the lives and cultures of the time."
"For those who don’t know yet, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a photographer who’s experience in chemistry created one of the earliest techniques of color photography, which he used to document the scope of the Russian empire prior to the revolution, giving us a glimpse into the lives and cultures of the time."
Friday, August 19, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Good old days
Some day, public libraries will be regarded with that far greater reverence we reserve for things we once had. Alan Bennett gets us off to a wonderful start , and has a nice parting shot:
It’s hard not to think that like other Tory policies privatising the libraries has been lying dormant for 15 years, just waiting for a convenient crisis to smuggle it through. Libraries are, after all, as another think tank clown opined a few weeks ago, ‘a valuable retail outlet’.
It’s hard not to think that like other Tory policies privatising the libraries has been lying dormant for 15 years, just waiting for a convenient crisis to smuggle it through. Libraries are, after all, as another think tank clown opined a few weeks ago, ‘a valuable retail outlet’.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Books as fetish objects
Sad times for bibliophiles; the book, writes James Gleick, "is like the coffin at a funeral. It deserves to be honored, but the soul has moved on."
Friday, July 15, 2011
Death of the expert, or birth of the expert?
Sven Birkerts has a bone to pick with Maria Bustillos' article Wikipedia and the Death of the Expert. Sven has been windmill-tilting indefatigably ever since the Gutenberg Elegies (1994!), and you can't help admire the poor sod - not only for his pluck, but also for his beautiful and perceptive writing. And for providing such inspiring examples of what both he and I cherish; non-instrumental thinking and writing. Bustillos responds here, but methinks "Wikipedia and the birth of the expert" would have been a better title for her article....
Introducing the Mechanic Muse
(excerpt) In this week’s issue, the Book Review inaugurates a new column, The Mechanic Muse, that will examine different aspects of this techno-literary complex. This week, Kathryn Schulz takes a virtual trip to the Stanford Literary Lab, where literary scholars are mutating into computer scientists, and vice versa. Can a computer recognize a literary genre or help us see the plot of “Hamlet” anew? Should it? Read the column to decide for yourself.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
20 facts about US inequality
20 Facts About US Inequality That Everyone Should Know (With An Update On The Uber-Wealthy And Global Wealth Inequality)
From zerohedge.com, infographics from many different sources about many different kinds of inequality in the US - for example,
From zerohedge.com, infographics from many different sources about many different kinds of inequality in the US - for example,
Thursday, May 19, 2011
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