The Books Shackleton Took to Antarctica
As was recently reported, the Royal Geographic Society in London digitized a photograph that was taken in 1915 of Sir Ernest Shackelton’s Antarctic library by Frank Hurley. They were then …
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A Sister Blog is Born
OCLC has launched a new blog: Next. Focused on what comes next for libraries, librarians, and the communities they serve, it will draw upon OCLC staff with a variety of experiences and perspectives. First …
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David Bowie’s Top 100 Books
If you grew up on David Bowie’s music as I did, this has not been a good week. We lost his creative genius way too early. Social media has been awash …
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Gifts for Librarians and Archivists – 2015 edition
For the last few years, we’ve featured a list of fun gifts for librarians and archivists. In the past, we have crowd sourced the list but this year we decided …
Read MoreCurrent Cites – the amazing 25th anniversary
I suspect that a large part of the audience for this blog also subscribes to Current Cites the “annotated bibliography of selected articles, books, and digital documents on information technology” …
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The Five Stages of Code4Lib
I had the good fortune to attend the Code4Lib 2015 conference in Portland OR last week. It was a great event as usual, but it’s an event that I don’t always …
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Gifts for archivists and librarians: from the practical to the luxurious
We asked for suggestions for gifts that would be suitable for librarians or archivists and the community responded! Thank you so much for all the wonderful and thoughtful gift ideas! …
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Gifts for archivists (and librarians)?
[Update: our holiday gift guide is now available! Thanks for the contributions] Last year we asked on the ArchiveGrid blog for suggestions for gifts for archivists — and we were …
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“Managing Monsters”? Academics and Assessment
Recently in the London Review of Books Marina Warner explained why she quit her post at the University of Essex. I found it a shocking essay. Warner was pushed out …
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Tag, you’re it: Books that have stayed with you
Recently, this has been going around on Facebook: List ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take more than a few minutes, and don’t think too hard. …
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