Books, movies and 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.

Lorcan Dempsey May 30, 2010 2 min read

Books

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]

Lorcan Dempsey May 30, 2010 1 min read

Books

Aura

Walter Benjamin's idea of 'aura' is very relevant to library discussions of digitization, artifactuality, provenance.

Lorcan Dempsey May 16, 2010 2 min read

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

Lorcan Dempsey May 2, 2010 3 min read

Books

Interstitial reading

Evan Schnittman of OUP has an interesting post [https://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2010/03/23/digital-reading/#more-445] in which he

Lorcan Dempsey Apr 11, 2010 2 min read

Books

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/

Lorcan Dempsey Apr 10, 2010 1 min read

Books

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/

Lorcan Dempsey Mar 28, 2010 2 min read

Books

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]

Lorcan Dempsey Mar 7, 2010 1 min read

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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]

Lorcan Dempsey Feb 11, 2010 4 min read

Books

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