incunabular illumination

Ex -Libris is from 1998, so its been kicking around for a while. I borrowed this copy from my small lending library we have at my office. I...

The full title of this book is BiblioTech: why libraries matter more than ever in the age of google . This book is from 2015, and when I got...

I'm not sure when or even why I added The Midnight Library to my reading list. My reading list, by the way, is in a few forms: a list I...

From their InstaGram (without permission) Today I heard a story about Barbershop Books on public radio . Barbershop Books is the brai...

First off, thanks so much to the folks in Erving, who were nice enough to bring this book for us to help celebrate my office 's 20th a...

Madame Rose - Belgian Style Wild Ale, by Goose Island Beer Co . of Chicago, IL, is not something that I would have gone out and purchased...

My office recently hosted a  library visioning round table discussion on the future of libraries. The topic: Library as Place. The Word...

This book is from a few years ago. I discovered the third book at one of the libraries I'm working on--if I get there early, or if th...

The Strange Library . With a title like that, how could I not pick this one up. I've read a few of Murakami's books and while thi...

In his popular book, The Great Good Place , Ray Oldenburg gives us this idea of a 'third place' as a place we can gather, talk, so...

I got the heads-up on Snow Crash after visiting Christopher Moore's web site . I went looking for Moore's web site after reading ...

Lovers of traditional bound books go on about the look, feel, even the aroma of books. The very physicality of them is both pleasing and com...

This is not the kind of book I normally read, but this copy of Sour Apples came to me through an interesting connection. My office had a...

Knowledge media is ubiquitous, complex, and growing at a pace that outstrips the most hardened and voracious philomath . Yet libraries conti...

Its not yours... its ours . Soon, the question may not be so much about how we catalog, access , store and generally treat library materia...

This one is a hoot! This bookmark is from Highsmith , copyright 1992. So, in computer years, those beige bombers are from like... 228 years...

Today's Boston Globe includes an article on the library that's been set up in the Occupy Boston camp at Dewey Square. Sorry about t...

Here is a story by a local author, written in 1974. I remember reading this book not long after it came out, after being turned on to it by ...

I wrote an article for Library Journal 's Library By Design supplement: its packaged with the magazine 4 times a year, so this was the f...

I am a geek. I'm not ashamed. I geek out about a lot of things: technology, science, etymology , philately , bookmarks , books, and libr...