Collecting for Library Use – A Wonder
In terms of topic oriented collecting, where does one topic stop and another begin? Can we define this line? Is a library, public of academic, supposed to collect all publications by a popular fiction...
View ArticleIn the Virginia Room with Tad Suiter
On Wednesday 16 January 2013, I sat down to talk with one of the numerous helpful Virginia Room staff members, Tad Suiter, about special collections, the role of local history in the public library’s...
View ArticleBook Review – The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
Dr. Black’s Creative Empiricism – A Book Review E.B. Hudspeth’s The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black. Quirk Books. 2013. ISBN: 978159476161 E.B. Hudspeth has added something new to...
View ArticleUpcoming Phantom Library (a taste)
I have been reading this blog post by Alonzo McBride and rereading PHANTOMS ON THE BOOKSHELVES by Jacques Bonnet. Great book. There are plenty of relevant points in the small text to library...
View ArticleDepths of the Phantom Library
Depths of the Phantom Library: Jacques Bonnet Reaches for the Unreachable. Jacques Bonnet writes in, Phantoms on the Bookshelves, of a vast library. No, not the Borgesian library of “The Library of...
View ArticleUpcoming Phantom Library (a taste)
I have been reading this blog post by Alonzo McBride and rereading PHANTOMS ON THE BOOKSHELVES by Jacques Bonnet. Great book. There are plenty of relevant points in the small text to library...
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