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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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? […]