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Brooklyn Author Recreates Borges' Library of Babel as Infinite Website
Jonathan Basile, a Brooklyn author and programmer, has recreated Jorge Luis Borges' masterpiece 'Library of Babel' as an infinite website.
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13 Beautifully Unusual Libraries From Around The World
There’s just something about a library -- its well-thumbed, plastic-sheathed bestsellers and dusty shelves of obscure treasures, all just waiting to be picked...
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A Long Way From Wax Cylinders, Library Of Congress Slowly Joins The Digital Age
Through the library's website, you can listen to the recording of a former slave or millions of other items. But critics say the library needs to move more aggressively to adjust to the digital age.
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Rare book experts join forces to stop tome raiders
Thefts of rare books, maps and manuscripts from national libraries have sparked such alarm that international experts are joining forces to stop any further vandalism to the world’s cultural heritage. Lawyers and librarians, booksellers and auctioneers will descend on the British Library next month for a major conference whose title – The Written Heritage of Mankind in Peril – conveys the seriousness of the problem.
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The British Library is fighting to save endangered sounds
For most of us, thinking about museums and archives will conjure up images of physical relics; faded books, paintings and trinkets discovered beneath the soil. But now, the British Library is fighting to preserve something more elusive: sound.
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Google is not the answer: How the digital age imperils history
From floppy disks to thumb drives, we get better at storing things -- while trapping history in obsolete formats
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New York Public Library's quirkiest inquries
A cache of cards recovered from the New York Public library’s archive is being published online, revealing the many roles the librarian was expected to play in the days before the internet. Libraries have gone through many changes in recent years, some more laudable than others. Earlier this week we looked at the reinvention of the library card. Our original spotlight was on London - but such was the response that we posted a second piece featuring...
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Welcome to America: Here's your Linux computer
Installing Linux and programs on surplus computers for those in need.
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Academic publishers reap huge profits as libraries go broke
Think it's hard to make money in publishing in the digital age? Well, huge profits are still to be had – if you're a publisher of academic research journals. While traditional book and magazine publishers struggle to stay afloat, research publishing houses have typical profit margins of nearly 40 per cent, says Vincent Larivière, a researcher at the University of Montreal's School of Library and Information Science.
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The Most Important U.S. Librarian Should Be Obsessed With the Internet
In a month or six, the United States will get its first new Librarian of Congress in nearly three decades. The current librarian, James Billington, has held the title since his appointment by President Reagan in 1987. Though named by the president and confirmed by the Senate, the Librarian doesn’t change with every new White House. After being appointed, Librarians are free to serve as long as they want—that’s why there have been only 13 of them since 1802.
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The man who builds up private libraries - book by rare book
Where do the impeccably selected libraries that appear in society pages and design magazines come from? Many are the work of private library curators.
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'Patience And Fortitude' And The Fight To Save NYC's Storied Public Library
Since it opened in 1911, the building has become a New York City landmark, praised not only for its beauty but also for its functional brilliance. In the words of one contemporary architect, the main branch of The New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street is "a perfect machine for reading."
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The Library Mark Twain Built
The author helped create a library in the last town he called home—and it's full of great summer reading suggestions.
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Foiling the thiefs
The theft of rare books and manuscripts from libraries is not new. Medieval abbots used to attach precious volumes with chains to stop touring scholars from leaving the monastery with them. And today, valuable books appear increasingly at risk...
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Future Library Project– Framtidsbibliotekt
A forest in Norway is growing. In 100 years from now it will become an anthology of books.
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Digital Bodleian
Thousands of books, maps and manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford are now available to the public, including one of the earliest maps of Britain and images from Victorian board games.
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The calamity of the disappearing school libraries
The number of libraries is dropping drastically across almost all states. Will a revised No Child Left Behind law make a difference? A 2011 survey conducted with my graduate students of 25 separate statewide studies shows that students who attend schools with libraries that are staffed by certified librarians score better on reading and writing tests than students in schools without library services. And it is lower-income students who benefit the most.
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Swedish Artist Susanna Hesselberg Builds a Plummeting Underground Library
Swedish artist Susanna Hesselberg’s latest work plummets deep into the ground Alice-in-Wonderland-style. “When My Father Died It Was Like a Whole Library Had Burned Down” (named after Laurie Anderson’s song “World Without End”) is a mind bending reproduction of a library inherited by the artist from her father, created for Denmark’s Sculpture by the Sea exhibition series.
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California Teen Collects 25,000 Books in Book Drive, Inspires Others
Reading to kids is not the way most 16-year-olds would spend their morning, but Ryan Traynor is not most kids. The California teenager was just 11-years-old when he started volunteering through his local library, going into schools and reading to children, to earn a Boy Scouts of America merit...
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The Library of Babel as Seen from Within
Reproducing Borges’s imaginary library online.Since I first read it in a high school Spanish class, I’ve been fascinated by the theory of language implicit in Borges’s “The Library of Babel.” The story describes a universal library containing, in 410-page volumes, every possible permutation of twenty-two letters, spaces, commas, and periods—every book that’s ever been written...
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