On July 26th, Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo will begin constructing an enourmous book maze in the Clore Ballroom at London’s Southbank Centre. The maze, which will cover more than 5,000 square feet, will be made from a whopping 250,000 books and its walls will be 13 feet tall.
[Thx for the idea, Emily]
(The Central Library in Cape Town, built inside an old drill hall. Photo via.)
Flavorwire went on the hunt for libraries that were born from unused and abandoned structures, from the large (drill halls and supermarkets) to the small (phone booths and shipping containers).
Click through to check out a few libraries that rose from the ashes of other structures,
Flavorwire » 10 Wonderful Libraries Repurposed from Unused Structures.
[thx for the idea, Emily]
Latest Library-related report from Pew says that 12% of readers of e-books borrowed an e-book from the library in the past year. But a majority of Americans do not know that this service is provided by their local library.
Source: http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/06/22/libraries-patrons-and-e-books/
Big Data: Experts say new forms of information analysis will help people be more nimble and adaptive, but worry over humans’ capacity to understand and use these new tools well.
Tech experts believe the vast quantities of data that humans and machines will be creating by the year 2020 could enhance productivity, improve organizational transparency, and expand the frontier of the “knowable future.†But they worry about “humanity’s dashboard†being in government and corporate hands and they are anxious about people’s ability to analyze it wisely.
via The Future of Big Data | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
In a way, these passages [of Whitman’s] present a challenge to the modern academic terminology of “the speaker.†In this critical tradition, students may discuss the words not of John Donne but of “Donne’s speaker,†and even (though this sounds more peculiar) not the words of Emily Dickinson but of “Dickinson’s speaker.â€
Useful though the notion of “the speaker†may be sometimes, it is challenged by certain poems.
Ben Jonson’s “On My First Sonâ€: Does “the speaker†matter? – Slate Magazine.