second life economy for the arts and crafts of the book
The
Codex Foundation has demonstrated the possibility of an invigorated market for the arts and crafts of the hand made book. This economy will ride the wave of another economy of screen based reading, but know its own future. Subversion even, as the paper book ends up the purchased product of free digital search and and quick screen discovery.
The murkier zone is refinding the skills needed to produce these things and rediscovering the will to lead a life of book making.
born and reborn digital
The final issue of RLG
DigiNews. One ten year transition has transpired. ” Feature Article 1: Digital Imaging – How Far Have We Come and What Still Needs to be Done?
Feature Article 2: A Digital Decade: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going in Digital Preservation?”
names of the library
We have been warned; we cannot call the new building “remote storage”. These expensive new warehouses for lesser used collections must have a more appealing name. Why are we constructing new buildings to keep old books anyway?
Unfortunately Administration now wants us to call it an “archival library” which, of course makes no sense, confuses everyone and hardly has a more positive connotation. I say call it the “preserved collections library”. This name tells the truth and puts the focus on a positive university value.
Or, maybe “preserved collections center” since the library order of books is not preserved. Or “quiet media building”.
SHARP book
ìParticipants in this workshop will learn about ten historical bookbinding structures, from Antiquity to the present. Tips for structural identification and description of bookbindings will be discussed. Participants will produce an Ethiopian codex in a Mahdar. This amulet codex is perfect for SHARP conference notes.î
Dont miss the four days of
SHARP pagentry or the pre-conference including
Iowa Book Works at MCBA.
what if book
What if the massive efforts to bring print books to the screen resulted in their reprinting? Such a scenario is already suggested as the on-line print libraries act as bibliographic utilities, enabling searching but not reading. This divide of searching, but not reading is then accentuated by new print on demand technologies. The smart desk top printer with screen view print-preview will produce the desired paper book.
“Google Book Search project basically makes books more findable rather than replacing them.” Other print positive trends .in the context of digital delivery are summarized in the May issue of
Cites and Insights.