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he book is dying as the opus of knowledge. More and more they'll be known as a physical archive interesting mostly to specialists, and will no longer be the keepers of current and / or mainstream knowledge. All of that will be given to computers, databases, websites, companies

Three new conditions, or clusters of conditions, have emerged—social, technological, and theoretical—and their convergence suggests a new kind of "core" for the liberal arts.

A commonplace book for my work on the Walter J. Ong Collection, held by the Pius XII Memorial Library, Saint Louis University.

OFFSHOOT is a model of an online catalog that would be moderated by the public library community. Constructed as an alternate means to creating an OPAC, OFFSHOOT is cataloging from the "wiki" point of view. Traditional library catalogs, both the public side and internal side, have historically been "locked", giving library patrons little to no opportunity to annotate the library records. OFFSHOOT is the opposite extreme, giving library patrons complete control over the library catalog records. This enables two things within the library system: a veritable multitude of "catalogers" working on a volume of records that has been traditionally worked on by 3 to 10 people, and an intensive expansion in the amount of cross-referencing within the library catalog.

Since July, a data-hungry user has downloaded from Factiva over 5 million articles, an amount so excessive that it jeopardized the University’s contract with the popular online research service. Yesterday, library administrators at Harvard Business School (HBS) blocked the conspicuous Harvard-network IP address from accessing Factiva and notified the suspected offender of the infringements.

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Art is whatever the artist wishes to call to our attention. Art is an act of attention the artist wishes to invoke in the beholder.

in an information economy, the real scarce commodity will always be human attention and that attracting that attention will be the necessary precondition of social change.