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Something else I’m loving right now: Solange’s Saint Heron Digital Archive Library. It’s a free, honor-based system where you can borrow rare and out-of-print works from Black and brown authors. Think: first editions, hard-to-find poetry collections, books that might otherwise sit in someone’s private archive instead... See more
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The web has an almost infinite capacity for storage and memory yet its prevailing use is an acceleration of ephemerality. The reasons for this are complex to say the least (of which financial short term gain is probably the most prevalent). But this doesn’t mean the tendency can’t be resisted. Perhaps books as well as their online siblings could be... See more
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This San Francisco Library Collects Print Materials You Were Never Meant to See
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Megan Prelinger (left) shows a small selection of 'The Hacker Quarterly' while her husband, Rick (right), scans the stacks at the Prelinger Library in San Francisco on Mar. 13, 2024. (Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)
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Megan Prelinger (left) shows a small selection of 'The Hacker Quarterly' while her husband, Rick (right), scans the stacks at the Prelinger Library in San Francisco on Mar. 13, 2024. (Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)
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Sarah Jessee • This San Francisco Library Collects Print Materials You Were Never Meant to See | KQED
Libraries have lent and borrowed books from the 8th century to the present, including monasteries. Teresa Miguel-Stearns, director of the Yale Law School’s Law Library, notes that in 1212, the Council of Paris “encouraged monks to establish a separate collection of books within the monastery for loan to members of their communities. This was
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