vandalism and value

I can’t count the number of times over the years I have shaken my fist — usually metaphorically — at people...

the hidden costs of e-book lending

This article by Jennifer Howard on the barriers to lending e-books via ILL (InterLibrary Loan) gives an interesting...

the Bodleian needs chairs

The Bodleian Library at Oxford needs new chairs, and has commissioned designs. Above are the three finalists. Like the...

the libraries we need

The new central library of the city of Birmingham — England, that is, not the one I grew up in in Alabama — is...

the new Mansueto Library

At the University of Chicago. Wow. More photos here.

a library is a good place to go

At the always-wonderful Letters of Note, some lovely responses from writers asked to tell the children of Troy,...

listen to Tom

I co-sign this proposal

Siva Vaidhyanathan: We have the technological systems in place to connect the vast majority of people in the world with...

saints preserve us . . . from microfilm

So, worried about the long-term survival of digitized documents? Here’s your answer: Schielke and Rauber’s solution...

posts unwritten, end-of-year edition

Looking at my Pinboard and Instapaper pages — how I love those tools — I see so many stories I want to blog about...