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library 2.0 success/failure in practice.
Now that hindsight is offering a bit of perspective, there has been a lot of discussion recently about the net effect of the Library 2.0 movement (and I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to describe it as...
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genius book/staircase.
Just a little envy stimulation from Apartment Therapy: Is that two copies of Brave New World I see on the first row?
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slate covers library extinction, architecture.
Slate Magazine recently posed the question, “what sort of public library does the ‘digital world’ of Google, Wikipedia , and Kindle require?” Witold Rybczynski’s brief photoessay covers a range of...
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nerds + embroidery =
As usual, Lia sent me something awesome weeks ago and I’m finally getting around to posting it. I think this might be one of the best, most random things I’ve seen this year: It’s called the Open...
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for the font-conscious.
Once again Lia’s UCSD Arts Blog clues me into something rad: FontStruct, an awesome web-based program that lets you design fonts and share them via Creative Commons. Download and rate “fontstructions”...
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to di(orama) for.
On this partly cloudy California Monday I thought I’d share what I believe could easily win the World’s Greatest Library Diorama contest, if such a thing existed: Created by the library’s preservation...
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words to live by.
It’s my birthday, ever a reminder of how lucky I am to have many talented, generous, and patient people in my life. Endless thanks to Lia for cross-stitching me my very own motto, which deserves a...
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ajax star rater.
Now that I’m as good as healed and it’s one down and one to go on the book front, I’m making a concerted effort to break the long silence created by maintaining a life while writing and working with a...
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flash from the vaults.
During a recent year-end purge of my overloaded computer, I discovered a tiny velocipede animation I created some time ago while learning flash (click image to play): May this be the most beautifully...
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project curve, part four: mapping (concept to curriculum).
Note, 10/12: You can see more recent work on this project at the Ubiquitous Librarian and view Claremont’s much-updated curriculum mapping template here. Finally, I’m percolating a big update post in...
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no more, no less.
I try not to write simply in order to make excuses for the fact that I haven’t written in a while, but in this case I have a very good reason for doing so. Like virtually everyone else in the universe...
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