QOTD: Marcus and Morrison
Greil Marcus finished an article about the reception of his recent book on Van
Morrison with this lovely quote:
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Books
Notes about books, movies and reading.
306 postsA web-siting at Yale: other editions and xISBN
I was looking at the Vufind implementation of the Yale University Library
catalog – yufind [https://yufind.library.yale.edu/yufind/
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'Reading at Library-scale'/'distant reading'
We are accustomed to a model in which books or other materials are read item by item in a 'close' reading way, at human scale. However, we now see growing interest in distant reading, or reading at collection- or library-scale.
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Return on attention and Current Cites
I was quite taken with the phrase “return on attention” while reading
[https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002086.html]
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People are entry points too ... redux
I have been reading The power of pull by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison. They provide
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Interstitial reading
Evan Schnittman of OUP has an interesting post
[https://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2010/03/23/digital-reading/#more-445] in
which he
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QOTD: "the professional conservatism of professors" ...
I bought the much-noticed The marketplace of ideas: reform and resistance in
the
American university
[https://www.worldcat.org/title/
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More cover notes ...
One of three …
[https://www.worldcat.org/title/books-do-furnish-a-room/oclc/58828028]There was
a well publicized
[https://online.wsj.com/
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Mission of the library redux
I heard Anders Söderbäck of the Royal Library in Sweden speak
[https://www.biblioteksforeningen.org/konferens/Konf2010/informationstjanster/konf.html]
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Cover notes
And speaking of The Second Sex reminds me that the Penguin Modern Classic
edition [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59144780]
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The publisher and the translation
I got my copy of The London Review of Books in the mail (aka post) today. I had
seen John
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