From the monthly archives: July 2010

We’re Not Dead Yet

On July 18, 2010 By


At the Apple WWDC 2010 conference, Steve Jobs ended his keynote address with a slide that showed a street sign with an intersection between Technology and the Liberal Arts. This slide, for Jobs, “represents what Apple is all about. Apple is not just a technology company. Even though we have and invent some [...]

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Dead Souls

On July 14, 2010 By

Can librarians crack jokes about the “death of libraries” and still be taken seriously in the age of digitization and globalization? I believe that the answer is Yes. Especially if we approach the so-called crisis in the humanities with the same dark sense of humor as Monty Python and Nikolai Gogol.

“Bring out your [...]

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