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The wonder of public libraries was not lost on Jack Kerouac, who wrote gorgeously about the NYPL in his journals—which, incidentally, I read in the NYPL. And, okay, yes, he was also writing about the Boston Public Library, which is lovely too.
ON BIG CITY LIBRARIES... See more
The two big city libraries that I’ve had occasion to frequent, the one in Boston and
Jillian Hess • 5 Love Notes
Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
As the university system collapses and millions succumb to tech-induced brain rot, the concept of the autodidact—a self-educated person who loves learning for its own sake—will become more important than ever. Read widely. Form study groups. Let the library be your college.
Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙♀️x.com"In the past five years, it’s as though someone flipped a switch. For most of my career, I assigned around 30 pages of reading per class meeting as a baseline expectation. Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages."
— college professor Adam Kotsko
Paul Grahamx.com
In 1995, Oxford University Press launched a new series called A Very Short Introduction, comprised of slim, 35,000-word books on such wide-ranging topics as Rivers, Metaphysics, the Russian Revolution, the Reagan Revolution, Fascism, Dinosaurs, and the Devil. The series now includes more than 600 installments, which have collectively sold more than... See more
instagram.comOne of my long-standing requests for products (and a college project never fully realized):
Dewey: Beautiful topic based reading lists (syllabuses) curated by “internet librarians”.
Peter Zakinx.comBeen working on this for a while, and the winter of a global pandemic is as good a time as any
I designed myself a solo “great books of history” project using a syllabus from St. John’s College
Aim: to read the canon and become a “liberal arts” student in the classic sense
Tommy Collisonx.comIn the academic world, few people write books. Because of the small pool of possible authors, academic publishers want to cultivate strong relationships with people who write books. Scholarly publishing has fewer risks than trade publishing. Academic books have stable niche markets—university libraries, college courses—and