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Category Archives: Libraries
Browse, Borrow, Board
The U.S. city of Boston is making borrowing reading material on-the-go more accessible through a pilot program that will offer public transit users access digital content from books and periodicals to audiobooks and newspapers at 20 bus stops across the … Continue reading
Posted in apps, Books, Libraries, Tech, USA
Tagged Boston, Boston Public Library, e-books, MBTA
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A very big book
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s The First Folio. The collection of 36 plays by William Shakespeare that was published in London in 1623. Considered to be one of the most influential books ever published, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Museums
Tagged First Folio, London, Plays, Victoria and Albert Museum, William Shakespeare
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Libraries For The People
Here at Travel Between The Pages World HQ we are huge fans of public libraries. We were chuffed to learn about a new organization of library workers, library users, and community advocates that wants to help folks become more involved … Continue reading
La Biblioteca del Mondo
Umberto Eco: A Library of the World is a wonderful new documentary about the bestselling Italian author with perhaps the greatest intellectual appetite of any writer of his time. Directed by Davide Ferrario, the documentary will launch in the U.S. beginning … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Freedom of Speech, Libraries, Writing
Tagged Documentary, Italy, Umberto Eco
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Decoding the Heavens
“The Astronomicum Caesareum (1540) by the German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer Petrus Apianus was used by the privileged – including the Holy Roman emperor Charles V, who commissioned it, and the Tudor king Henry VIII – to find guidance, knowledge and fate in the stars. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Maps, Museums
Tagged Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Fat-Headed Censors
You would have to have been living under a basket to avoid the recent brouhaha over the re-editing of classic books by so-called sensitivity readers and editors. Here in the Colonies we’ve been through this with the books of Dr. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Freedom of Speech, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged censorship, Dr. Seuss, McSweeney's, Roald Dahl
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