event unfolding 3
The chaos of the web and collaborative web writing is real. Try any kind of physics based on innumerable observers. The secret of print is the direction of innumerable observers to a fixed array. Another secret of print is the presentation of the conceptual work in a physical object. The physical object acts as a karaoke cursor and each reader appears to be in possession of the conceptual work. Its the wave of the future of the book.
event unfolding 2
A strange enough event unfolding; one of those IT specialists with beads of sweat came in today and wants to vend print cards from the
Zine Machine. It happens that the transaction needs dispersion so that hard copy can be better infused to the digital library. And evidently we are a rare rabbit hole between screen and paper; a SnackShop 110-112
gravity drop vending machine converted to sell free Zines. Any environment is special to the observer. I said that our key will open any machine on campus.
extra bound
All the news items that pop-up on the Sony Reader are now one year old. It may be an indication of desperation that there is now an extra bound,
leather covered version. The more it mimics the paper exemplar, the quicker it will disappear.
And this is in context with a dire need for a portable, hand-held with live connectity for reading environments such as instructional class support, cultural tourism and neighborhood shopping.
last mile
There are 800 million personal computers in the world, but only 280 million are connected. The rest are ìstuck in the 1980sî.
The advent of
universal connectivity will open the “digital library” and that event will reopen the print library.
Historical Printing: a seminar on letterpress transmission, Fall 2007
This one hour credit seminar course will introduce the experience of letterpress printing in relation to its historical consequences. Students will pursue fieldwork and workshop production related to a specific historical technology, society and publication genre and present this research to the class forum. This seminar will establish student understanding of the historical and contemporary consequence of letterpress printing in a context of changing transmission technologies.
Introductory readings and tutorials as well as access to collection resources and workshop facilities will be provided. The class forum will meet one hour a week, during an evening session in the Conservation Lab of the Main Library.
Class forum facilitators will include Lanny Haldy, Director of the Amana Heritage Society, Larry Raid, Director of the
Working Linotype Museum, Bethany Templeton, Linotype compositor,
Joint SLIS/UICB program, Gary Frost, Conservator,
University Libraries Preservation department. The seminar is produced within the program of the University of Iowa
Center for the Book.