Books

Walter Benjamin famously asserted [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=walter+benjamin] that “that which withers in the age of

Pride and prejudice tops fiction list: > Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s salty-tongued commentary on the plight of women

In a delightful conceit, Phil Gyford presents Samuel Pepys diary in the form of a blog. > This site is

An evaluation of the UK People’s Network has been published. > The People’s Network, a €120 million lottery-funded

We spent several days in Washington DC over the Thanksgiving period. We were intrigued by Rachel Whiteread’s Untitled (Library)

We have released a list [https://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/complete.htm] of the top 1000 works in WorldCat.

A particularly rich issue of Ariadne [https://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue41/] has just appeared, with a strong international flavor.

Edinburgh has been named UNESCO’s first City Of Literature [https://www.edinburgh.ac.uk/news/cityoflit.html]. JK Rowling

I was familiar with Newman’s characterization of the library as ‘the embalming of dead genius’. Now, I can see

Check out Liz Lawley’s photographs [https://www.flickr.com/photos/liz/sets/21370/] of the new Seattle Public Library.

I read The Librarian [https://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/a4f7ce9ba7770346a19afeb4da09e526.html] , a novel from Larry Beinhart, a few weeks

The Arts and Letters Daily [https://aldaily.com/] service from the Chronicle is very useful. It cries out for an