The end of the year...From New York magazine an envisioning (without the hysteria) of what the rennovated NYPL will look like.Now we finally have schematic drawings by Foster + Partners, and though they’re far from final, it’s wonderful to see intelligent architecture trump panicky rhetoric. Since the day the library opened in 1911, anyone, from the barely literate to the Nobel laureate, could pass...
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Looking at what I wrote on this subject last year I am almost appalled that I failed to keep my promises regarding my expected reading for 2012. Still, the Amanda Foreman title about the American Civil war sits above my desk with not one of the 800 pages having been cracked and, in addition, none of the Dickens books from the Penguin Classics collection have been read either. In the case...
Friday, December 28, 2012
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Christmas decorations in London generally don't match NYC and the tree in front of the National Gallery in Trafalgar square usually looks very lonely. In addition, in the years following the mid-nineties there were some unpleasant events on new years eve which prompted the authorities to close off the square...
Monday, December 17, 2012
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My predictions made in January 2012 are a good introduction to people visiting here the first time as well as a prelude to predictions for 2013 which I should get around to in early January.If you are visiting for the first time consider signing up for the RSS feed or you can recieve updates via email by clicking...
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Set your price online courses. Straighterline gives credit and cash. (Chronicle)The new service is run by StraighterLine, a company that offers online, self-paced introductory courses. Unlike massive open online courses, or MOOC's, StraighterLine's courses aren't free. But tuition is lower than what traditional colleges typically charge—the company calls its pricing "ultra-affordable." A handful...
Friday, December 14, 2012
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KAUPO MAUI St. Joseph's ChurchThis church is on the back side of Maui past Hana and on the road to Ulapalakua and is quite desolate. The church was built in 1862 and when this image was taken in1995 the church had just undergone a recent renovation. Since then it has apparently fallen into disrepair...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
From the NYPL Live series a meeting with Mr. Pete Townshend: In conversation with Paul Holdengräber, one of rock-and-roll’s biggest icons will talk about his most intimate memories; from the inner sanctum of Eric Clapton’s drug-ridden hotel rooms to the feet of Jimi Hendrix and his electric kool-aid guitar; from the first trial performance of Townshend’s rock opera, Tommy, in a London bar to setting...
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Wondering where the business model is for MOOCs? Some providers are now charging for access to student data (Chronicle):On Tuesday, Coursera, which works with high-profile colleges to provide massive open online courses, or MOOC's, announced its employee-matching service, called Coursera Career Services. Some high-profile tech companies have already signed up—including Facebook and Twitter, according...
Friday, December 7, 2012
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Another weekly image from my archive. Click on it to make it larger.This is a scan from a print so it is not a particularly good photo but it suffices to note the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. This is taken from an aircraft on approach to Honolulu International airport which is to the south...
Thursday, December 6, 2012
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
A catch-up on what's going on in library land that I didn't intend to be an OCLC catalog of achievement yet that's what seems to have happened. Most everyone else (vendors, content suppliers, etc.) seem to have been quiet over the past 6mths. Especially interesting however is the LJ overview of the market which is their annual review from March. If you haven't kept up to date on...
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