A different kind of Iraqi library story. [thanks ken]
Category: libraries
“We wish that our library will help educate people. “
Small private libraries in Iraq.
Fadl Abid Oda, 30 years old, has taken it upon himself to do something that western companies in Iraq have failed to do. In a tiny room off a busy street in the Orfali district of Baghdad, Fadl stands in his small library. [thanks tamarack]
ranganathan’s laws, updated
My pal Fred from ibiblio said he met Lennart Björneborn this week. I checked out his site and he’s adapted Ranganathan’s five principles of library science to the web world. Even though they are copyrighted [?], I’ll include them here:
- Links are for use – the very essence of hypertext
- Every surfer his or her link – the rich diversity of links across topics and genres
- Every link its surfer – ditto
- Save the time of the surfer – visualizing web clusters and small-world shortcuts
- The Web is a growing organism
Clinton Library opens, umbrellas confiscated
Some photos of the new Clinton Library.
old california library photos
It’s just an eye-candy sort of day. Here are some old photos of libraries from the San Joaquin Valley sent in by Michael Farrelly. [technocratic]