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The following articles were authored by derekattig
This is just a short post to celebrate independent, radical bookstores and community centers.
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In a move that should resonate with several recent posts I have made here, the Fort Worth has decided to remove “public” from the name of its public library, arguing that it is necessary to “keep up with the times.”
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According to Inside Higher Ed, the University of Denver’s Penrose Library is poised to make a mistake, much like the one at the Newport Beach Public Library which I wrote about a few weeks ago.
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As you might imagine, every day is bookmobile day for me–what with that whole dissertation thing. (But its certainly nice to have everyone else agree for once.)
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In honor of the first week of National Poetry Month, here is a favorite poem of mine, about (surprise, surprise!) the circulation of print. It was written by Randall Jarrell in the early 1950s, and it is a difficult and fascinating text.
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Changes are coming to the Newport Beach (CA) Public Library.
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Someone decided the English Building, at the University of Illinois, ought to make a case for the humanities a bit more explicitly…and visibly.
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From realspace, a tumblr blog, comes a “rough conceptual idea for combining digital and physical spac
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It’s a record-mobile!
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Dumb, but also deeply disturbing: HarperCollins has found a new way to try and squeeze blood from a turnip (or money from chronically underfunded public libraries).
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I know a lot of HASTAC scholars and other bloggers here have a personal or academic affinity for comic books, so I wanted to post this here. It’s a PSA page from a comic book in the 1960s, promoting books and reading.
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In 1900, Du Bois was a sociology professor and had his students make placards to communicate data about African American life to audiences at a Parisian exposition. Let’s take a look at some of them.
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