double your pleasure
The CLR project to
certify digital repositories will link that effort to disposal of “redundant” print. Perhaps the project should also look at distinctive functions of print (back-up, mastering, source authentication) relative to digital delivery. The immediate targets may be serials, but there is already speedy termination of print in preference to screen delivery. The wider prospective linkage of growing digital resources with disposal of print resources needs more careful mediation.
open library
“We are excited to announce a new program to allow users and patrons to “scan-on-demand”. It’s simple to use: just search for a public domain book on OpenLibrary.org and, if it’s at the Boston Public Library and hasn’t been scanned yet, there will be a “Scan This Book” button on the left-hand side.
When you click the button and follow the steps to confirm, we’ll have a librarian go and get the book from the stacks, bring it to our scanning center, and have our team of scanners digitize it page-by-page. When the scan is completed, you should receive an email follow-up with a link to the newly-digitized copy, complete with PDF, online flip book, full text (using OCR technology) and more, all thanks to your request!”
Scan on demand will further confirm the continuing role of the print collection as back-up, master and source authenticator. There is also the possibility that libraries will stumble on an entire transmission ecology based on machine reading.
ethiopian culture in italy
Carlo Mori has sent this aventurous link http://www.nigrasum.org/ “sacro e bellezza dell’Etiopia cristiana
flight of the condor III
“Arequipa is considered the most beautiful city in Peru, in itself a good reason to relocate, but for my purposes as a librarian, of equal importance is that it is an almost perfect locale for books. Apart from periodic earthquakes which dump entire collections to the floors in a few seconds, the climate is moderate and dry and the altitude at 8,000 feet discourages all nature of pests. Arequipa is, in historic terms remote, and marauding soldiers such as those from Chile which plundered Lima of much of its bibliographic patrimony in the War of the Pacific of 1879-84, bypassed this high plains community. In like manner Arequipa has been outside the normal traffic of urban culture and its libraries have not suffered the damages which can be wrought by
marauding librarians. Rather, grand collections from Europen and Latin American publishing centers have been well protected from all such incursions. The padres, who have been guarding their collections for almost 400 years, are also a formidable bulwark.” Helen Ryan
The FotB team is off again and beyond the reach of electric media as we know it. Rather we will be establishing workshop book studies in the Convent of the Recoleta. This flight of the condor will be a reverse course into the future with focus on book studies rather than library preservation.
Arequipa is a great place for book studies. Cultures of Antiquity exemplified by Greek and Roman empires and indigenous cultures exemplified by empires of the Americas were both transformed by evangelistic Christianity. This great drama is recorded in the historical libraries of Arequipa. This is also a perfect place to study historical technologies of the book including calligraphy, hand papermaking, vellum making, letterpress printing and hand bookbinding and to discover historical book that was not imported but made in Peru. Another attribute of Arequipa is its community of specialists in library and book history. So there is a convergence that includes key people, organizations and motivations.