Month: April 2011

  • The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, home of the Lakota Sioux, is ground zero for Native American Issues.  Best known to most Americans as the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, where some 300 men, women and children were slaughtered by US soldiers, today Pine Ridge is one of the poorest counties…

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  • gregmelander: THE BEST DREAM FACTORIES WILL WIN “The best dream factories will win whether they be individuals, companies or countries” – Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat

  • gregmelander: THE BEST DREAM FACTORIES WILL WIN “The best dream factories will win whether they be individuals, companies or countries” – Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat

  • IMG_3037 (by roddy macinnes) I have begun to “crowdsource” the on campus book storage. This, of course, will not allow me the grace of serendipity, but it will keep treasured older volumes near at hand. I’m having visions of the Borges short story, The Library of Babel, overlayed with Umberto Eco’s The Name of the…

  • IMG_3037 (by roddy macinnes) I have begun to “crowdsource” the on campus book storage. This, of course, will not allow me the grace of serendipity, but it will keep treasured older volumes near at hand. I’m having visions of the Borges short story, The Library of Babel, overlayed with Umberto Eco’s The Name of the…

  • IMG_3045 (by roddy macinnes) I will always want my office to be within walking distance of the books. If they are located off-site, I respectfully request to locate my office where ever the books are.

  • IMG_3045 (by roddy macinnes) I will always want my office to be within walking distance of the books. If they are located off-site, I respectfully request to locate my office where ever the books are.

  • April 27, 2011 While university libraries have taken on numerous functions over the years, such as serving as places for students to study, meet with others, and interact with technology, one component that has always been central to their mission has been housing books. But plans at the University of Denver to permanently move four-fifths…

  • April 27, 2011 While university libraries have taken on numerous functions over the years, such as serving as places for students to study, meet with others, and interact with technology, one component that has always been central to their mission has been housing books. But plans at the University of Denver to permanently move four-fifths…