Marie Tharp: Mapping the Ocean Floor | Library of Congress Bud Barton on Bringing Library of Congress IT Up to Date | Library Journal Library of Congress Looks to AI to Help Users Sift Through Its Collections | Wall Street Journal The Original Xbox’s Ambient Audio Was Creepy, But Where Did It Come From? [Video]Continue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 5/12/2025”
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What I’ve Been Reading – 5/13/2024
How Your Pantry Looks Says a Lot About Who You Are | Food & Wine The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia’s water | Route Fifty Thwarted cyberattack targeted Library of Congress in tandem with October British Library breach | NextGov FCW Arkansas’s new statues at the U.S. Capitol are of Daisy Bates andContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 5/13/2024”
What I’ve Been Reading – 1/17/2022
“Now Everyone in the World Can See This”: Folklife and the Internet | Library of Congress It’s Never Too Late to Learn How to Swim | The New York Times John Palminteri | Santa Barbara Independent Beauty from Disarray | Harvard Magazine Eve Babitz and the Hollywood Library | Los Angeles Public Library Hustling toContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 1/17/2022”
A Joke from my Cataloging and Classification Professor:
How many librarians does it take to screw in a light bulb? … One, but they are waiting to see what the Library of Congress does first.
Top 25 Largest Libraries in North America
Excerpt from The Librarian’s Book of Lists, in terms of volumes. Library of Congress Harvard University Boston Public Library Yale University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Toronto University of California, Berkeley Columbia University University of Texas at Austin Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County University of Michigan New York Public Library IndianaContinue reading “Top 25 Largest Libraries in North America”
The Library: An Illustrated History
Yes, I read a library book about libraries. Let me just say, The Library: An Illustrated History, by Stuart A.P Murray, is not as illustrated as you might think. The illustrated portion was, more or less, an afterthought from the author. I can only guess that one would need to put a spin on aContinue reading “The Library: An Illustrated History”
