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‘When Claude Bellièvre visited the Vatican Library around 1514, he copied down a papal edict: readers must not quarrel, make noise or “cross the desks [to which books were chained] and tear them up with their feet”.’
Anthony Grafton on Renaissance libraries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anthony Grafton on Renaissance libraries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anthony Grafton · No Cheese Please: The First Bibliophiles
The library made possible a new kind of intellectual life. Machiavelli, when he’d been exiled from Florence, described...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
‘When Claude Bellièvre visited the Vatican Library around 1514, he copied down a papal edict: readers must not quarrel, make noise or “cross the desks [to which books were chained] and tear them up with their feet”.’
Anthony Grafton on Renaissance libraries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anthony Grafton on Renaissance libraries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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"My father, an early and prominent computer scientist, passed away more than two years ago. Since then I’ve been trying to make sense of how rapidly the world that helped make him, and in turn the one he helped shape, is unraveling." 1/ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...
Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.” - The Scholarly Kitchen
Grieving my father's death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
June 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
"My father, an early and prominent computer scientist, passed away more than two years ago. Since then I’ve been trying to make sense of how rapidly the world that helped make him, and in turn the one he helped shape, is unraveling." 1/ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...
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‘Brown has never written a dull or inelegant sentence, and his parade of publications over the last sixty years continues to astonish, instruct and beguile.’
Diarmaid MacCulloch on the life and work of historian of antiquity Peter Brown: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Diarmaid MacCulloch on the life and work of historian of antiquity Peter Brown: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Diarmaid MacCulloch · With Fresh Eyes: Peter Brown’s Achievement
All autobiography is inherently mendacious, if only by omission and with the intent of protecting the innocent. In his...
www.lrb.co.uk
June 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
‘Brown has never written a dull or inelegant sentence, and his parade of publications over the last sixty years continues to astonish, instruct and beguile.’
Diarmaid MacCulloch on the life and work of historian of antiquity Peter Brown: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Diarmaid MacCulloch on the life and work of historian of antiquity Peter Brown: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
RIP Tom Robbin’s- star reporter and generous mentor www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...
Tom Robbins, Versatile Muckraker for The Village Voice, Dies at 76
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
RIP Tom Robbin’s- star reporter and generous mentor www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...
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“Scout announced today public programming that will soon take place at the former UArts buildings it acquired, the first step in its adaptive reuse proposal for the 19th-century buildings.”
May 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
“Scout announced today public programming that will soon take place at the former UArts buildings it acquired, the first step in its adaptive reuse proposal for the 19th-century buildings.”
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Connecticut passes landmark eBook bill to fight restrictive licensing for #libraries! The bill's result is from years of research, legal analysis, & coordination between my non-profit, the #eBook Study Group, and CT libraires! More to come. Read and share: www.ebookstudygroup.org/connecticut_...
Connecticut House Passes Landmark eBook Bill
New State Bills Aim to Improve Access to eBooks for Libraries
www.ebookstudygroup.org
May 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Connecticut passes landmark eBook bill to fight restrictive licensing for #libraries! The bill's result is from years of research, legal analysis, & coordination between my non-profit, the #eBook Study Group, and CT libraires! More to come. Read and share: www.ebookstudygroup.org/connecticut_...
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📢FIDELIS Network Launch : Happening tomorrow!
Don't miss your chance to learn more about how the FIDELIS Network will support the European #network of #FAIR-enabling Trustworthy Digital Repositories.
👉Learn more about the webinar and register today : eden-fidelis.eu/events/fidel...
Don't miss your chance to learn more about how the FIDELIS Network will support the European #network of #FAIR-enabling Trustworthy Digital Repositories.
👉Learn more about the webinar and register today : eden-fidelis.eu/events/fidel...
May 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
📢FIDELIS Network Launch : Happening tomorrow!
Don't miss your chance to learn more about how the FIDELIS Network will support the European #network of #FAIR-enabling Trustworthy Digital Repositories.
👉Learn more about the webinar and register today : eden-fidelis.eu/events/fidel...
Don't miss your chance to learn more about how the FIDELIS Network will support the European #network of #FAIR-enabling Trustworthy Digital Repositories.
👉Learn more about the webinar and register today : eden-fidelis.eu/events/fidel...
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Latest issue of the Harvard Data Science Review is out with an article by Greg Crane covering some of the latest work I’ve between doing with the ATLAS server and Scaife reader.
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/volume7issue2
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/volume7issue2
Issue 7.2, Spring 2025
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu
April 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Latest issue of the Harvard Data Science Review is out with an article by Greg Crane covering some of the latest work I’ve between doing with the ATLAS server and Scaife reader.
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/volume7issue2
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/volume7issue2
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Ed Summers at Stanford wrote this great deep dive of how and why we designed our data.gov archiver the way we did. Thanks for digging in, Ed, this is excellent. inkdroid.org/2025/02/17/n...
Bagging data.gov
inkdroid.org
February 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Ed Summers at Stanford wrote this great deep dive of how and why we designed our data.gov archiver the way we did. Thanks for digging in, Ed, this is excellent. inkdroid.org/2025/02/17/n...
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‘When the past can be erased, when peasant life in Europe can be diminished with such speed, Joyce is concerned about what this does to the very notion we have of the past.’
Colm Tóibín on an exploration of Irish rural life: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín on an exploration of Irish rural life: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín · Seagulls as Playmates: Where the Islanders Went
In 1954, the islanders left the Great Blasket. It has been empty since then. What does ‘empty’ mean? What happens...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
‘When the past can be erased, when peasant life in Europe can be diminished with such speed, Joyce is concerned about what this does to the very notion we have of the past.’
Colm Tóibín on an exploration of Irish rural life: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín on an exploration of Irish rural life: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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"Sony is halting production of recordable Blu-ray, MiniDiscs and MiniDV cassettes
'There will be no successor models.'" www.engadget.com/home/home-th...
'There will be no successor models.'" www.engadget.com/home/home-th...
Sony is halting production of recordable Blu-ray, MiniDiscs and MiniDV cassettes
Sony is ending production of recordable Blu-ray, MiniDisc and MD Data disc media, along with Mini DV cassettes.
www.engadget.com
January 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
"Sony is halting production of recordable Blu-ray, MiniDiscs and MiniDV cassettes
'There will be no successor models.'" www.engadget.com/home/home-th...
'There will be no successor models.'" www.engadget.com/home/home-th...
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2025 is here, and so is our January newsletter! Check out all the latest #iPRES2025 Wellington updates on our website at https://buff.ly/40wXcA5.
iPRES 2025 January Newsletter
Kia ora iPRES Enthusiasts!Message from the Conference ChairsThe te reo Māori greeting ‘Kia ora’ translates to ‘Be well’, and is a common way of saying hello here in Aotearoa New Zealand. It’s…
buff.ly
January 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
2025 is here, and so is our January newsletter! Check out all the latest #iPRES2025 Wellington updates on our website at https://buff.ly/40wXcA5.
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Getting a problem report that Logeion is not working. That could happen! But it could also be something at the user's end of things. In that case it _really_ helps if people leave a working email address. (Hello theologysomethingsomething:-))
January 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Getting a problem report that Logeion is not working. That could happen! But it could also be something at the user's end of things. In that case it _really_ helps if people leave a working email address. (Hello theologysomethingsomething:-))
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oh wow
The Library of Congress has a trove of images “free to use and re-use” that are in the public domain - and they’re fantastic
The Library of Congress has a trove of images “free to use and re-use” that are in the public domain - and they’re fantastic
January 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
oh wow
The Library of Congress has a trove of images “free to use and re-use” that are in the public domain - and they’re fantastic
The Library of Congress has a trove of images “free to use and re-use” that are in the public domain - and they’re fantastic
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Yes this proved out. My suggestion for a common tree-addressing language became XPath.
January 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Yes this proved out. My suggestion for a common tree-addressing language became XPath.
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I'm a bit entertained to read accounts like this of higher education running into demographic and financial challenges, then not citing Nathan Grawe or myself, who've written about this for years:
www.npr.org/2025/01/08/n...
www.npr.org/2025/01/08/n...
A looming 'demographic cliff': Fewer college students and ultimately fewer graduates
The long-predicted downturn in the number of 18-year-olds is almost here. And it isn't just a problem for higher education. It's a looming crisis for the economy.
www.npr.org
January 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I'm a bit entertained to read accounts like this of higher education running into demographic and financial challenges, then not citing Nathan Grawe or myself, who've written about this for years:
www.npr.org/2025/01/08/n...
www.npr.org/2025/01/08/n...
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AMERICAN THEATRE | Show and Telemachus: Joseph Medeiros’s Journey Through ‘The Odyssey’
www.americantheatre.org/2025/01/07/s...
www.americantheatre.org/2025/01/07/s...
Show and Telemachus: Joseph Medeiros’s Journey Through ‘The Odyssey’
How a versatile actor picked up ancient Greek in his spare time, and soon became the unlikely bearer of an intimate and ancient tale—in its original language.
www.americantheatre.org
January 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
AMERICAN THEATRE | Show and Telemachus: Joseph Medeiros’s Journey Through ‘The Odyssey’
www.americantheatre.org/2025/01/07/s...
www.americantheatre.org/2025/01/07/s...
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every time i’m back home in ohio
December 26, 2024 at 3:49 AM
every time i’m back home in ohio
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For an object lesson read @nakhthor.bsky.social 's Polis, which shows how democracy is not a shallow invented idea but a lived process with a vitality which can survive and largely subvert autocracy (my interpretation, not his), if it has the opportunity. Small D democrats should take courage.
December 21, 2024 at 12:22 AM
For an object lesson read @nakhthor.bsky.social 's Polis, which shows how democracy is not a shallow invented idea but a lived process with a vitality which can survive and largely subvert autocracy (my interpretation, not his), if it has the opportunity. Small D democrats should take courage.
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And while we're at it, you should consider attending #IDCC25. It didn't exist twenty years ago either. In person or virtual tickets available right now. Eventbrite (there's another one!) never sleeps. www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc2...
December 13, 2024 at 9:06 PM
And while we're at it, you should consider attending #IDCC25. It didn't exist twenty years ago either. In person or virtual tickets available right now. Eventbrite (there's another one!) never sleeps. www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc2...
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Delighted to welcome colleagues at the University of Minnesota to the #dpc today. So much experience and learning shared. Cannot wait to work with them #digitalpreservation #digipres
December 13, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Delighted to welcome colleagues at the University of Minnesota to the #dpc today. So much experience and learning shared. Cannot wait to work with them #digitalpreservation #digipres
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here's the TOC for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century!
the Introduction and Practical Materials section are both pretty hefty, about 15k words each (three parts of 5k words in both), and each contributor's essay is 2-3k words
the Introduction and Practical Materials section are both pretty hefty, about 15k words each (three parts of 5k words in both), and each contributor's essay is 2-3k words
December 11, 2024 at 4:56 PM
here's the TOC for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century!
the Introduction and Practical Materials section are both pretty hefty, about 15k words each (three parts of 5k words in both), and each contributor's essay is 2-3k words
the Introduction and Practical Materials section are both pretty hefty, about 15k words each (three parts of 5k words in both), and each contributor's essay is 2-3k words