B. Haro's Reading List

'To own a certain book – one you had chosen yourself – was to define yourself.' Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian I have lived in books, for books, by and with books; in recent years, I have…

thenextweb.com 1min

Size matters: 21 Gorgeous petite icon sets crafted by pixel-perfect…

By Harrison Weber July 13, 2012

It may not apply to all things in life, but in design, limitations exist and there are always opportunities to work within them beautifully. Proving this, when it comes to tight spaces,…

blog.readability.com 2min

Getting started with Readability for iPad

Congratulations! Your Readability account has been created. You’re moments away from saving anything you find on the web to your iPad for reading on your terms—anytime, anywhere.…

inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org 12min

13 Ways of (Not) Writing (Contrarian) Librarianship

By Leigh Anne Vrabel

Print This Post “It’s one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way in order to come back a short distance…

danielsternlicht.com 1min

Web Designer, Front End Developer

Just a few moments Don't go anywhere... Start playing by using the keyboard arrows About Me Hi There! My name is Daniel Sternlicht and I'm a highly motivated Front End Developer with a great passion…

newyorker.com 7min

Why Is Literary Fame So Unpredictable?

By Tom Vanderbilt May 21, 2012

In 1929, the readers of the Manchester Guardian were asked to opine on the “novelists who may be read in 2029.” Sitting at the top of this century-hence summit of popularity was John…

grantland.com 21min

The Inquisition of Mr. Marvel

By Alex Pappademas May 9, 2012

Sugar Ray Leonard says he's trying to wean himself off Red Bull. He's drinking a Red Bull as he says this, a big 16-ouncer he carried into the room. "After five or six," he says, "I get jittery." He…

publicsphere.ssrc.org 20min

Social Science Research Council

Axel Honneth, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Columbia University Contrary to repeated claims of the disappearance of the intellectuals, their participation in public discussion has never…

informationr.net 19min

Information resource selection of undergraduate students in academic…

By Jee Yeon Lee, Woojin Paik, Jee Yeon Lee

Introduction Selection of information resources is one of most essential steps during the process of an information seeking task. The rapid growth of Web information technology has expanded the range…

unllib.unl.edu 23min

Management of Change in the 21st Century Libraries and Information…

ISSN 1522-0222 Samuel Olu Adeyoyin Nimbe Adedipe LibraryUniversity of AgricultureAbeokuta, Nigeria Abayomi ImamAg. College LibrarianMichael Otedola College of Primary Education, Epe Taofik Olatunde…

infotoday.com 34min

FEATURE: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire

The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to…

inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org 20min

In the Library with the Lead Pipe » Answering questions about library…

By Derek Rodriguez

Print This Post image by wordshore on Flickr This essay reports on a project which evaluated the

vanityfair.com 29min

World War 3.0

By Michael Joseph GrossIllustration by Stephen Doyle May 16, 2012

TWO FUTURES? Privacy, piracy, security, sovereignty—the divisions on these issues reflect an even deeper split between those who want tight control and those who want unfettered freedom. I. Time Bomb…

nytimes.com 11min

The Bookstore’s Last Stand

By JULIE BOSMAN Jan. 28, 2012

William J. Lynch Jr., chief executive of Barnes & Noble, with a wall full of e-readers at its site in Silicon Valley, where 300 employees are building the company's digital side. IN March 2009,…

aljazeera.com 7min

The disappearing virtual library

By Christopher Kelty March 1, 2012

Los Angeles, CA - Last week a website called "library.nu" disappeared. A coalition of international scholarly publishers accused the site of piracy and convinced a judge in Munich to shut it…

bookhistory.harvard.edu 47min

Bibliography, Book History, and the Study of Literature

Paul Eggert, "Brought to the Book: Bibliography, Book History, and the Study of Literature," Library 13:1 (2012): 3-32.First delivered as the 17th Annual D.F. McKenzie Lecture at Oxford on…

hastac.org 7min

Open Educational Resources and Open Assets

March 30, 2012

The nature of information[1] has changed. Historically, it has been based on ownership; the evolving concepts of copyright and intellectual property and the like reflect this.However, it…

insidehighered.com 4min

column on New York Public Library research collection

By Scott McLemee March 28, 2012

The New York Public Library’s proposed Central Library Plan (CLP) is a case of long-term planning at its most shortsighted. It will effect scholars and writers in both the United States and…

insidehighered.com 6min

Essay on the digital humanities' data problem

March 20, 2012

In 2010, the National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts convened a historic workshop -- it was their first jointly funded project. This meeting marked the beginning of a new…

aaup.org 16min

Fighting for the Humanities

Who will bankroll poetry? By Cary Nelson Privatization can turn a university into a glorified trade school. Business programs and computer-science departments will attract wealthy supporters but who…

craigmod.com 17min

The Digital Physical

The Weight We had been on a long journey but I couldn’t see it anywhere. There's a stage in a product cycle where you know it’s going to ship. Where you can see the end. It's right…

theatlantic.com 11min

The Encyclopedists

By Morris Markey

The eighteenth century has bequeathed to us one work which embodies in itself the spirit of the century,—that is the Encyclopédie. There are, of course, other works of that epoch more…

themillions.com 6min

The Lost Manuscript to A Confederacy of Dunces

By Cory MacLauchlin

By Cory MacLauchlin posted at 6:00 am on March 26, 2012 6 A young John Kennedy Toole in the Caribbean. Photo courtesy the Toole Papers, Special Collections, Tulane University. In the spring of 1969…

guardian.co.uk 5min

A new chapter for rare book collecting

By Rick Gekoski March 28, 2012

Buy the book … a first edition bearing an inscription from TS Eliot to Virginia Woolf. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian I'm not a rare book collector, not anymore. You can't afford to be…

educause.edu 5min

The Game Has Changed

Charles Henry and Brad Wheeler Colleges and universities have long competed against one another, measuring themselves in comparison to each other and holding tightly to their idiosyncrasies as…

earlham.edu 17min

Peter Suber, Promoting Open Access in the Humanities

I first wrote this for oral presentation on January 3, 2004, at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association in San Francisco. Thereafter I worked up the second section, on obstacles,…

thenewinquiry.com 10min

Fact Check!

Along with the title, the device under this microscope is a Sandia Ion Trap. Photo by Oxford researchers Brides magazine has a fact-checker. She does things like verify the cost of honeymoons, and…

theatlanticcities.com 5min

Are Privatized Public Libraries So Bad?

By Amanda Erickson is associate editor at The Atlantic Cities. All posts »

Shutterstock I'll admit, to me, the idea of a privatized public library has a certain dystopian ring to it, the ultimate public space corrupted for a profit. That image was not much aided by my first…

nonmusicology.blogspot.ca 9min

Non-musicology

Beyond Conceptualisms: Poetics after Critique and the End of the Individual VoiceJohanna DruckerPoetry Project Newsletter April / May 2012CONCEPTUAL WRITING WAS INTRIGUING AND PROVOCATIVE. In the…

aquariumdrunkard.com 14min

Aquarium Drunkard » The Strange Tale of Jim Sullivan’s U.F.O.

Nov. 10, 2010

Last June, over a round of drinks, my friend Matt excitedly told me the tale of his label Light In The Attic’s upcoming release; that of the reissue of Jim Sullivan’s U.F.O. Whereas…

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Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile

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