opened book everywhere
Seth Morabito is working with the
LOCKSS project at Stanford. Bookbinders have an intuitive sense of best strategies for digital preservation.
“The project itself is immensely interesting to me. It’s under the umbrella of the Stanford University Libraries, and is creating a system that will let libraries build, maintain, and archive local collections of e-journals that require paid subscriptions.”
(see Seth’s May 13, 2004
Opened Book blog posting for further description.)
hot metal services
At work today in
Denmark was Dave Seat the last of the traveling Linotype servicemen. His company,
Hot Metal Services, has the inventory of Merganthaler parts. He is also supplying solid state temperature controls for caster pots, bringing the Linotype, Ludlow and other casters into the 21st century of their use.
It was a real pleasure to watch him at work reconditioning Larry’s Ludlow.
they all shelve the same, but each one opens differently
Have you ever noticed that each book will shelve between any of its neighbors? Across a wide, wide expanse of books from diverse periods and cultures they will all shelve together happily.
But take any single binding in hand and you will find that they all opened differently. And many will not happily open for reading.
FotB has gone back to the first codex binding to understand the principles of good book action. We will report on the amazing results at the annual
AIC meeting.