shape of things to come
“Read much, but not many books.” Benjamin Franklin
***life is a memorybook
“Chapters of Life is dedicated to preserving the past, whether it be a special event or an entire lifetime. We can help you record your life for your children or grandchildren, preserving precious memories and capturing personalities in a beautiful bound book complete with photos. You can keep the book yourself or pass it on to others as a living legacy.”
crop circle books
“Wooden Books are designed not to date. The information contained within most of them will be as true in five hundred years time as it was five hundred years ago.”(something is going on here)
***Kerouac’s ‘Road’ scroll
“The single-spaced quasi-autobiographical ode to free living is nearly 120 feet long and pasted together in sections about a dozen feet long, the seams later reinforced with tape. A faint pencil line runs along its right edge, suggesting that Kerouac cut the paper to fit his typewriter. Darkened with age, the scroll is tattered near its beginning, probably from handling. (Kerouac was fond of showing it, unrolled and roadlike, to friends.) And its final paragraphs are torn away, a mishap that Kerouac attributed to his friend Lucien Carr’s dog chewing off the end.”from New York Times, March 22nd, 2001
Does the scroll both predate and postdate (connote a latter day composite, oral/written/print) reading (mode)?
mile high vision of libraries
The advent of a technology assisted, composite reading mode is transforming the library as a physical place, the use of its physical print and analog collections, the future of scholarly communication and the future of library reference services.
Comments on the ACRL meeting in Denver. (March 15-18)