Readers, I want to apologize for my lack of posts. I am feeling quite sick with a cold, but I still wanted to check in and let you know that I am still in this plane, and I anticipate a full recovery by Monday. At least that’s what I am hoping for.
Archive for the ‘Library Design’ Category
September 21, 2010
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Visual Explanations, Classification, and Libraries
By Jason W. Dean in Books, Design, Librarianship, Library, Library Design, ReadingI mentioned earlier here that I am in Theory of Classification this semester, and I am really enjoying the course – maybe more so than any of the other courses I have taken for my MSLIS at Syracuse. The texts that Dr. Barbara Kwasnik suggested for the course are dense, but fascinating. Here’s a quote [...]
August 26, 2010
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Library Robots
By Jason W. Dean in Library, Library DesignAs it does every Wednesday, my American Libraries email from the ALA arrived in my inbox. It’s pretty dense, but I usually glean about five articles from each email, and the best article from this week was this one, I think:
July 30, 2010
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Libraries With a Future Responses
By Jason W. Dean in Library, Library Design, Library HistoryIt’s a busy time for periodicals here at The Dean Files. The new issues of The New Yorker, Dwell, GOOD, ACRL News and College & Research Libraries all arrived within a few days of each other. I am working my way through these, and in an effort to get ahead of the reading, I stayed [...]
July 20, 2010
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Private Libraries: Alberto Manguel
By Jason W. Dean in Library, Library DesignIt has been a while since I have shared a library design post with you all, so I think it’s about time. A private library has a variety of meanings, I think. Broadly applied, I can see that almost everyone has a private library, whether it’s a collection of 10 or 10,000 books. If you [...]
