Susan Hildreth on libraries in the digital age
At the Library Innovation Lab blog, there’s a podcast interview I did a couple of weeks ago with Susan Hildreth, director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency that supports...
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Book notice
As Publishers Weekly puts it, in June ebooks jumped while print plunged: $80.2MM e-books $84.9MM hardcover $48.4MM trade paperback $47.4MM mass-market paperback Adult paperbacks were down 64% in that...
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[2b2k] Bookbinding and the Digital Bible
Avi Solomon at BoingBoing has a terrific interview with Michael Greer about the appeal of bookbinding, and about Michael’s “Digital Bible.” I love the photo:
View Article[2b2k] A New Culture of Learning
If you want to read a brilliant application of some of the ideas in Too Big to Know to our educational system, read A New Culture of Learning by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown. And by “application...
View ArticleAttending to appearances
I picked up a copy of Bernard Knox’s 1994 Backing into the Future because somewhere I saw it referenced about the weird fact that the ancient Greeks thought that the future was behind them. Knox...
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