BIBLIO: word letter page -TECH: screen byte scroll

[squaredproduce-blog]

[teachingliteracy]

squaredproduce:

Spanish artists Luzinterruptus seized the Square with their illuminated book installation for The Light in Winter 2012. Read about their time in Melbourne at luzinterruptus.com

[bibliotech]

c16 calligraphic collage (Taken with Instagram)

[bibliotech]

"what's on the menu?" and similar projects "could potentially be the building blocks of a new kind of library," anthony marx, the library's president, told _the chronicle_ in an e-mail. "by rethinking the way we present our collections to the public and making them deeply interactive, we are extending the reach of the research libraries more than ever before."

from breaking down menus digitally, dish by dish (in the chronicle of higher education)

[tipobook-blog]

[bibliotech]

tipobook:

construcción de la “m” - el trazo / gerrit noordzij #typography (taken with instagram)

[soupsoup]

[bibliotech]

think this is an octavo? or a duodecimo?

(according to soupsoup, the "second coolest iphone case i’ve ever seen." <-- click on caption to get to product site)

[bibliotech]

the mla has come up with a standard citation format for tweets. as alexis points out, the lack of a url (i.e., permalink) requirement is quite puzzling, the kind of thing that suggests the people who make this stuff up are a bit disconnected from reality.

(via how do you cite a tweet in an academic paper?)

[bibliotech]

venturebeat reports that the encyclopaedia britannica has been "wiped out by wikipedia" -- a sentiment that the appended video hopes to refute, i'm sure, but which reiterates the importance that crowd-sourced, constantly updated information gathering has begun to take on vis-a-vis top-down curated knowledge presentation (especially if presented in fancy multi-volume form with leather bindings). 

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instagram announces android version

yessssssssssssssssss. 

[bibliotech]

think of all those boring cloth or buckram bindings, brought to life with paint!

[thedailywhat]

[bibliotech]

thedailywhat:

short film of the day: A fascinating short film about how the now-iconic “keep calm and carry on” wwii propaganda poster went unseen by the public for decades before being [re]discovered and distributed by a small secondhand bookshop in alnwick, northumberland, called barter books.

ps: i so want to work at this bookshop... the toy trains! the old waiting room! the fireplace! zomg.

[bibliotech]

supposedly an alley of books in boston (by rare book room). where was this when i lived there??

[bibliofila]

[bibliotech]

do you ever read the same book twice? 

(bibliofila, via facebook)

[teachingliteracy]

[bibliotech]

teachingliteracy:

alphabet bench by lee jae-hyo

[bibliotech]

... was downloaded by someone chinese. 

... was called "where's my water" (no jokes).

... was rewarded with a $10,000 itunes gift certificate. what do you even do with that much fake money?!?

[teachingliteracy]

[bibliotech]

love the large ottoman. one could quite well lounge on it all day. but what's with the weird white conical pottery on the top shelves?! 

[boltart]

[bibliotech]

(boltart)

[myidealhome]

[bibliotech]

bats in the belfry, books in the rafters.

myidealhome: home library (via marie claire maison)

(thanks, shelly!)