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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
In a comment on Anne-Marie's "secret library books" post last week I mentioned that I had started reading The Future of the Internet and How to Stop it by Jonathan Zittrain. I'm not sure it turned out to be a secret library book or not, but there is much to ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
The first thing I did when I decided to raise chickens was put a hold on every book in the library with chicken or poultry in the subject heading. By far, the most informative and entertaining one I read is John Festus Adams' Backyard poultry raising: the chicken-growing, egg-laying, feather-plucking, ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
At the 2008 Libraries in the Digital Age conference I attended a month ago, Jeffrey Pomerantz presented results of a study of library and information science curriculum that showed that David Weinberger's 2007 book Everything is Miscellaneous was one of the most popular books assigned in courses on digital libraries ...
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