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Showing posts with label Cushing Academy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cushing Academy. Show all posts
Friday, September 4, 2009
Friday linkage
Sorry for the light posting — I've been a bit under the weather. Here are a few links to keep you occupied:
The British Library's Sound Archive is amazing.
Cushing Academy in Massachusetts is getting rid of its books. Who needs a library when you can have a "learning center" with big-screen TVs and a $12,000 cappuccino machine?
The Public Index is a site created by people at NYU's Law School to gather information about the proposed Google Book Settlement and to create a conversation about that settlement. It's clearly the one-stop shop for people interested in the implications of Google's agreement with publishers. I am coming to believe that the settlement is not going to survive all of the various legal challenges being made to it — I doubt it will ever go into effect.
More later, I hope.
UPDATE: Ted Striphas has some thoughtful comments on the self-decodexifying of Cushing Academy.
ANOTHER UPDATE: More smart thoughts from Jessamyn the librarian.
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Commentary on technologies of reading, writing, research, and, generally, knowledge. As these technologies change and develop, what do we lose, what do we gain, what is (fundamentally or trivially) altered? And, not least, what's fun?
Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program of Baylor University and the author, most recently, of How to Think and The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography. His homepage is here.
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