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Outside of a dog, a book is Man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.-- Groucho Marx
The Newberry Library
The Newberry Library was founded as a public library by a bequest of Walter Loomis Newberry and is one of the great independent libraries to come out of the nineteenth century.
The Newberry is also where one of the first great experiments in Library Conservation took place, beginning under the direction of Paul N. Banks in 1964. Part of the Newberry Library building is, in fact, a living monument to the greatest achievements of the conservation field, the Newberry Library Bookstack Building. Paul Banks, Conservator of the Newberry Library from 1964 to 1981, established the environmental standards for the bookstack building, which was completed in 1982. Everything else we have learned and done in the library preservation and conservation field combined yields only a tiny fraction of the benefits derived from Paul's research and teaching. Thanks Paul!
1969 Woodstock Festival and Concert. Flash Back!
From the University of Michigan, the Journal of Electronic Publishing. The current issue has an interesting article by Lee David Jaffe, Old Wine in New Bottles: Formatting Documents with Editorial Notes.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Built by Lee David Jaffe, this site is not just the text, but a rich "collection of texts and links useful to the study of Jonathan Swift's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World."
From NYTimes Magazine: The Eroded Self. A thought provoking article about privacy and the lack of it in cyberspace. (Free registration is required.) The bottom line, in my opinion, is not capitulation, but taking an active roll in establishing and maintaining your privacy.
Redwood City Public Library is a great public library site! Make sure and check out Liblog: A Library Weblog.
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