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Libraries' Leading Roles: On Stage, On Screen And In Song
In the latest installment of
NPR's radio library series, Bob Mondello visits some notable libraries in
popular culture: Jorge Luis Borges' Library of Babel; Lucien's Library in Neil
Gaiman's The Sandman; and the stacks in Buffy, Hogwarts,
Doctor Who and Fahrenheit 451. - August
7, 2013
luzinteruptus
is an anonymous artistic group, who carries out urban interventions in public
spaces. "We use light as a raw material and the dark as our canvas. We
began to act on the streets of Madrid at the end of 2008 with the simple idea of
focusing people´s attention by using light on problems that we found in the
city and that seem to go unnoticed to the authorities and citizens."
- luzinteruptus
The Death of the Book
Through The Ages
"Every generation rewrites the book’s epitaph; all that changes is the
whodunit. . . the newspaper is killing the book, as the book killed
architecture.”
Dead
Again, by Leah Price
N.Y. Times Sunday Book Review
August 12, 2012
The Tradition of the Book
"Perhaps this is why, for all their innovation, the Kindle, Nook and iPad
cling to the form of the traditional book, from their size to their covers to
the technology they use for page turning, replicating that familiar
intimacy."
It's
Alive, by Gillian Silverman
N.Y. Times Sunday Book Review August
12, 2012
Paper Passion Perfume makes you
smell like an old book" The Huffington Post
Paper Passion
Various
sources, July 2012
"A genuine book has a soul of its own. It is tactile, beautiful, accessible. It tells a story; it is itself a story."
Reading,
No Batteries Required, by
Patt Morrison L. A. Times April
22, 2012
Reading
habits may be fundamentally changing, but a new survey shows that the
printed word remains fundamental. Even
e-reader owners still like printed books, survey finds.
L.
A. Times E-Reader Poll,
by Mike Anton L. A. Times April
14, 2012
Brewster Kahle's stated goal is
"Universal access to all knowledge," and his catalog of
inventions and institutions created for this purpose read like a Web's
Greatest Hits list. He is an American computer engineer,
Internet entrepreneur, internet activist, advocate of universal access to
knowledge, and digital librarian.
In a Flood Tide of Digital Data
an Ark Full of Books, By
David Streitfeld N.Y. Times March
3, 2012
The Last Bookstore, downtown
Los Angeles
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