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Strange Catalogs, Labyrinthine Libraries, and Bookmobiles
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December 6, 2016 by libroshombre

Once I visited merry England and unexpectedly found myself inside Chetham’s Library, the first English-language public library in the world. …
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Category: bookmobiles, books, catalogs, libraries, Uncategorized | Tags: Alexandrian Library, bookmobiles, Chetham's Library, Cottonian Library, Hunphrey Chetham, Jorge Luis Borges, Karl Marx, labyrinth, library of babel, Name of the Rose, Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, Umberto Eco
Babel’s Library, People’s Horsebreeder, and Cellular DNA
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June 8, 2015 by libroshombre

When Larry McMurtry, author of “Lonesome Dove,” the Great American Western Novel, was 18 and first entered the Rice University …
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Category: libraries, organization | Tags: cells, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, horsebreeder, Jorge Luis Borges, Larry McMurtry, library of babel, Mx., organelles, RNA
Space Elevators, Project Hieroglyph, and Borges’ Libraries
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August 21, 2014 by libroshombre

It takes big dreams to make big things happen. Take spaceelevators, for example. “Space Elevators Are Totally Possible,” an online …
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Category: libraries, library school, writers | Tags: Arthur C. Clark, Borges, libraries, library of babel, library school, Project Hieroglyph, space elevator, stephenson