Tag Archives: libraries
links for 2008-04-19: hot theory stash
Körotonomedya | pdf ar?ivi | Körotonomedya pdf Ar?ivi Stock up on theory, before they take it all away (tags: theory soc-studs library)
links for 2007-11-01: censored news, digitization
Project Censored 25 most under-reported news stories of 2007 It’s that time of year again, already. Overview: USA striding purposefully towards fascism at home, plunder and piracy abroad… (tags: censorship media politics war) Future Reading: Digitization and its discontents Anthony … more…
Librophilia
Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries (Curious Expeditions) is the latest iteration in an evolving casebook of Really Gorgeous Library Interiors… Ever. Previous iterations at nonist and Shiela Variations. Lovely. (via Daily Awesome)
serendipitous tree woman
Woman with a large bundle (of brush?) on her head, photographer and date unknown I thought I stumbled across this image at the annex for the Dirty Beloved photo blog — but now I cannot find it there. In any … more…
Textual web apps
Another couple of “Web 2.0″ apps which may turn out to be of some use: Chris Locke, in his capacity as Chief Blogging Officer, points to LibraryThing, where we are offered the opportunity to catalogue our books, and to network … more…
Fantastic
This is the front cover illustration of Master Flea (from the Tales of Hoffmann) by Friedrich Wilmans, in the Franfurt edition of 1822, from a fairly large set of well-appointed galleries of The Fantastic in Art and Fiction from the … more…
BibliOdyssey
I followed a link from somewhere onto BibliOdyssey a few weeks ago: I don’t recall what I saw there, the first time, but it went in the bookmarks straight off. It’s a blog dedicated to collecting atmospheric imagery from one … more…
Prehistoric London exhibition
We finally made it to the Museum of London on sunday, mostly to see the new London before London exhibit I posted about weeks ago, although we made it through history up until the Fire of 1666 before hunger and … more…
Museum of London – the Thames in Prehistory
This is a flint handaxe, reckoned to be 300,000 years old, discovered during the construction of the Regent Palace Hotel in 1912, in Glasshouse Street, Picadilly. The site advertises the opening of a new gallery, London before London, which I … more…
Picturing America
Beautifully constructed and presented collection of American art from 1730 to the present at the Newark Museum. Includes painting, sculpture and photography. The commentary is a little light, but never mind. Lots of work here that I’d never seen before. … more…