by Steven Chabot on August 31st, 2006
I just wanted to thank quickly Jennifer Macaulay at Life as I Know It and Vonjobi at Filipino Librarian for their Blog Day links to my site. I would love to play as well, but I am really busy today. Maybe I can take a rain-cheque for the holiday and suggest some great reading at […]
by Steven Chabot on August 30th, 2006
To Peter Suber, because there are no comments on his blog, for what I can tell. From this post:
Nor does the barrier-free access seem to have begun yet. Here’s a public-domain 1897 edition of MacBeth scanned from Harvard’s library. I can print it one page at a time, but I can’t find a […]
by Steven Chabot on August 26th, 2006
I have had a busy couple of days. It feels like I haven’t stopped moving since 7 am Thursday morning–not even long enough to check my email.
From working all day Thursday, to travelling to my parents for a day an a half, to getting a call just as I was leaving that the library […]
by Steven Chabot on August 21st, 2006
Bartolome de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies.
I think you could consider this the first activist or social justice writing. De la Casas was a contemporary of Columbus, and this 1552 work decries the slaughter of the Central and South Americans by the conquistadores. True, he was the […]
by Steven Chabot on August 21st, 2006
Having just moved and having unpacked my burgeoning library, finally, I get to put some new purchases that have been kicking around onto the shelf. Of course I am thinking about Benjamin’s “Unpacking my Library”, which can be found in Illuminations.
And the non reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of collectors? […]