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The amount of bookbinding that is actually woodworking never ceases to surprise me. ~°~ Image description: my materials partway through today's #BiblioTech class with the inimitable Karen Hanmer. I'm using a teensy chisel to carve little channels into the wooden boards of the book we're working on. https://www.instagram.com/p/CdHVSv5PEvM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Got to do some woodworking in bookbinding class today. ~°~ Image description: my workbench, covered in tools. My primary focus here is the board with four holes drilled in it - I was using a chisel to bevel one edge. The chisel is really small, it's the silver thing sitting next to the board on the wood jig clamped to my workbench. ~°~ #bookbinding #bookarts #BiblioTech https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc1vdKfLfyT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Here's a quick look at one of the books I've made in the Biblio Tech class I'm taking with Karen Hanmer. This is a tacketed binding - a single signature sewn into the leather cover, with leather supports inside the book to protect the pages from the force of the thread holding it together. It's a very simple structure, but I really like it. Time to look into getting some leather - between this and the Ethiopian structure I learned from her in a class last year I have some options that don't require me to pare the edges. (I hate paring, my perfectionist side loses its little mind.) ~°~ Image description: a series of photos of the book described above. It has red leather for the cover and interior supports, and is sewn using a heavily-waxed thread that matches. ~°~ #bookbinding #bookarts #BiblioTech https://www.instagram.com/p/CcnqNBsJQef/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Libraries Round the World: Going 100% Digital
Libraries Round the World: Going 100%Â Digital
My hometown San Antonio is often leading edge when it comes to innovation. In 2013, the BiblioTech Digital Library, the first all-digital public library in the U.S. opened. Since then, they’ve added a second location in San Antonio along with a downtown jury duty room for those with time on their hands while stuck in you-know-what.
BiblioTech doesn’t just loan eBooks to their members; they also…
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Book Review on BiblioTech
Book: BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More than Ever in the Age of Google
Author:John Palfrey
Publisher information: New York, NY: Basic Books, c2015
“May you live in interesting times,” that infernal Chinese cliche, has perhaps never been truer than for the bearers of that most beleaguered title, “librarian.”  Despite study after study indicating the power, importance and necessity of the institution and its custodians, enamorment with Google and other big firms of the Internet and their false promises of unrestricted quality information at everyone’s fingertips have lulled us into the delusion that libraries have become obsolete.  A darkly symbiotic falsehood infects many public officials squeezed by tight budgets in the wake of the colossal economic meltdown, and so often place libraries on the chopping block in their quest to cut “superfluous” agencies.  In the wake of this assault on multiple fronts, champions of the library arise to counter the prevailing common wisdom, advocating for the library’s value and irreplaceable role in the so-called information economy.  BiblioTech is just such a book, a slim and relatively recent text penned by John Palfrey, law professor and co-founder of the Digital Public Library of America.  As apparent from the title, Palfrey subscribes to the digitization school of library future forecasting, albeit with a more sensible and incremental approach than most: he doesn’t herald the imminent death of the book, and his central argument is that as the world gradually transitions from the analog to the digital, libraries must lead the way through the turbulence, forming collaborations with each other to ensure that open access to information will be available to all in the future.
Palfrey takes a “tough love” approach to how he assess the current state of libraries: while lauding the role they have played and will continue to play in the lives of millions, he chides librarians for not doing enough to form collaborations and transition from bound books to open access digital content.  This well-trodden path may be refreshing or irritating depending on your viewpoint, but Palfrey nails some valid points as he treks along.  He's right in declaring that information has grown too voluminous for any one library to house all of it, and that a joint digital effort will be needed to preserve precious historical documents in the future.  This preservation aspect of the library's modus operandi - so often lost in the shuffle of rush of “redefining” its mission - is critical to the future Palfrey argues, especially since digital documents are so transient compared to print.  His chapter on the legal hurdles facing libraries in the acquisition of digital content and navigating copyright law is expectedly thorough and clear-sighted in the solutions he offers.
Unfortunately, Palfrey’s “tough love” often veers toward the unrealistic and the naive; many of his proposals are simply too far out of reach for most public agencies, and his inconsequential chapter on “hacking” library spaces came off as faddish and meaningless, despite promises to the contrary.  Despite his good ideas and acknowledged respect for the library and its mission, he falls for the standard technologist trap of viewing the library as a platform of limitless possibility, despite the very real limits of funding, staffing, and hours in the day.  He gives numerous and heartfelt beseechments throughout the book for public support of the library, but falls short of real, practical advice on how to accomplish this.  For a more grounded approach to library adaptation in the “information age,” see Michael Gorman’s cri de coeur Our Enduring Values Revisited: Librarianship in an Ever-Changing World, released as a second edition the same year, which provides a welcomed antidote to the blind rush to make libraries everything to everyone by revisiting the core values of this peculiar calling.  By skimping on this central understanding, Palfrey’s work, while more steeped in the murky heart of modern librarianship than most digitization truckers, doesn’t quite check in with the profession’s more nuanced transformation efforts.
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La società circolare Di Aldo Bonomi e Roberto Masiero DeriveApprodi editore Pubblicato: settembre 2016 Pagine: 192 ISBN: 9788865481653 Prezzo: € 18,00  Dopo la lunga stagione del fordismo novecentesco imperniato sulla dialettica capitale-lavoro e quella del postfordismo basato sull’egemonia della micro e piccola impresa territorializzata, siamo oggi entrati in una nuova fase, quella dell’economia circolare, nella quale la […] The post La società circolare appeared first on Key4biz.
Bexar BiblioTech’s Dia de los Muertos Poster. October 2014.
