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brownstudy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:37:12 +0000

Economic downturn hitting public libraries. Also, library fines.
Another popularly focused article on the digital dark age; it proposes using open-source rather than proprietary file formats.
The best suit for your body type.
Proto-scholar learns the hard way to ask the right people for process advice. No one would blame her for feeling angry and bitter about this mess-up. Her dilemma reminds me of the importance of grad skool rulez #1 and #2.
All sorts of reasons why British readers get reader’s block.

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Links 25-May-2008

brownstudy — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:17:05 +0000

Penelope Trunk has an excellent post on how she got her current favorite mentor, to complement her other posts on the topic. As a forty-odder among twenty-somethings, I find that my mentors are not just the professors, but my peers who have longer experience of being a student, being at SILS, being connected to many other students who they think may be good for me to meet. I have a couple of trusted mentors — including, of course, The Illimitable Cassidy — both 20 years younger than me, who provide me with excellent advice and guidance. I hope to be of use to them one day, or to pay it forward in some way.

I recall an author reading I went to years ago; she’d written a book about the Book of the Month club. Her opinion at that time was that literate book-culture was seeing its history growing smaller in a rearview mirror, hence the explosion of books about books, books about reading, books about bibliophiles. There’s a strong flavor of sadness and melancholy in these books. I thought of this when reading the UK Guardian review of Alberto Manguel’s “The Library at Night”:

The traditional library was a citadel sacred to the notion of omniscience; the web, by contrast, is ‘the emblem of our ambition of omnipresence’, like a supermarket that boundlessly proliferates in space and deluges the planet with its tacky wares. ‘The library that contained everything,’ Manguel laments, ‘has become the library that contains anything.’

In junior high school, I got hooked on the Doc Savage novels with the James Bama covers. William Denton somehow located the author Lester Dent’s Master Fiction Plot Formula for any 6000-word story. While you’re there, check out William’s library science pages. And I’ll probably try his index card system for organizing my school work this fall. Update: I tried it for a while but it duplicated other systems for tracking work and reading that were more convenient, so I dropped it.

Susie Bright is looking for odd book titles. (Susie’s site is fun, but its ads could be classified as NSFW.)

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“Library Lullaby”

brownstudy — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 03:56:50 +0000

An iSerenity soundscape for when you want to hear the quiet.

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Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries

brownstudy — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:18:45 +0000

An absolutely gorgeous photo album of a blog post showing frame after frame of stately, beautiful libraries.

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