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Phone Booth Library
From Alltop: Architect John Locke wanted to give forgotten phone booths a purpose again, so he transformed an antiquated call box in New York City into a bookshelf. Part of Locke’s “Department of Urban Betterment,” the project encourages reading and … Continue reading
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First Librarian of Congress Takes Office
Today in 1802, John J. Beckley became the first Librarian of the U.S. Congress. Beckley is also considered the first political campaign manager in the U.S. The Library of Congress was established less than two years earlier by an act of … Continue reading
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Yeats Lost and Found at Boston College
When he was just 18 or 19 years old, in 1884, Yeats wrote a play titled “Love and Death.’’ The work was hidden among boxes of his journals, notebooks, and correspondence purchased by Boston College in 1993 from Michael Yeats, … Continue reading
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Tipping Point for the Internet of Things and Connected Cows
In 2008, the number of things connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people on Earth. This according to a Cisco Infographic on the Internet of Things today and tomorrow. One Internet of Things start-up it mentions is Sparked, … Continue reading
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New York Public Library Opened 100 Years Ago
Today marks the centenary of the official dedication of the New York Public Library. The ceremony was presided over by President William Howard Taft and was attended by Governor John Alden Dix and Mayor William J. Gaynor.
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Daniel Bell on Information Explosion
Daniel Bell, who passed away Tuesday (obituaries here and here), first became widely known for his book The End of Ideology. An “ardent appraiser” of our lives in information, he also wrote (in 1980) about the “End of the Alexandrian … Continue reading
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This Day In Information: Scientific Journals
Today in 1665, the first issue of the Journal des sçavans (later renamed Journal des savants), was published in Paris.
Lost and Found and Digitally Preserved: The Cairo Genizah
A hundred years ago today, The New York Times Sunday Magazine published an article titled “Important Jewish Manuscript Older than Gospel.” It tells of the debate between two scholars regarding the meaning of a fragment of a Hebrew manuscript:
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Francine Berman Calls for a Research Data Census
In the December issue of Communications of the ACM, Francine Berman calls for a “Research Data Census, ” a reliable, cost-effective storage and preservation of research data on national scale. Berman says: “Just as the U.S. Census drives planning for … Continue reading
Library Books per Capita, by State
The Tetherless World Constellation project at RPI mines open government datasets using semantic web technologies. So far, they have developed 45 demos, one of them showing library books per inhabitants of each state in the U.S. Other questions you may … Continue reading
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