Posts Tagged ‘library’
Scraptastrophe!
Posted by: dkoupf on: August 1, 2010
Bad news! Post-it notes have been found to harm books! Edward Tenner reports on his blog at the Atlantic that new studies by the National Archives and Records Administration have shown that Post-its leave adhesive residue on books, which can harden into a film that becomes acidic and can cause discoloration and brittleness of the [...]
Writing and the Environment
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 10, 2010
Writing is an academic activity. It takes place in the mind. Some might say it’s even a spiritual process — so much about it is tough to explain. Somehow words end up on the page. Somehow paragraphs develop and pages accumulate. The remains are physical. But the process is totally physical too, of course. Hands [...]
Random (Long) Quotation
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 1, 2010
“If the steam-boat and the railway have thus abridged space and time, and made a large addition to the available length of human existence, why may not our intellectual journey be also accelerated, — our knowledge more cheaply and quickly acquired, — its records rendered more accessible and portable, its cultivators increased in number, — [...]
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