its time
To be aware of new projects and timeless progress plan to check this site every year (for the next 10,000). Or go back a few.
Perhaps the three years that have passed since the publication of Time & Bits has provided a whole era of transition.
looking in the jar
The 18 month PEM Climate Notebook field trial program has approximately 180 participating institutions (including the University of Iowa and itsUIL Preservation dept). These institutions vary widely and maintain every type of stored collections. The overall effort will result in the first comparative survey of collection storage conditions collected via equivalent digital recording and reporting methods and compiled to a single database for further analysis. Resulting findings, reflecting national storage conditions, will be published on the internet.
all of your base are belong to us
The saga of the return of the sewn board binding continues. The phenomenon is attributed to alien contact and early experiments in Texas. For a few years a sewn board bindery was in operation 15 miles east of Utopia. Recent activity is reported in central Iowa. TeeShirts available at the Store.
whoa!
the story of 4 years either in the 360’s or the 370’s the Kellis agricultural account book. (from Craig)
an in-situ image is from Monash University excavations at Ismant El-Kharab Dakleb, Egypt. Want to see the opened book?
other texts of the period, including those inscribed onto wood, are found at the Advanced Papyrological Information System