A repost from my Facebook. Original November 22, 2015. Built in 1886, Finca Vigía became the fond hideaway in Cuba where Hemingway wrote most of his novel For Whom The Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea. The library at Finca Vigía really reflects the personality of Hemingway. Today, Finca Vigía is managed by […]
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 21, 2015 Andrew Carnegie funded the building of 2,509 libraries between 1883 and 1929 in cities across the globe. Carnegie had a strict formula to determine if he would provide a town funds for a library. 1. demonstrate the need for a public library;2. provide the building site;3. pay […]
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 20, 2015 Built on the site of a former Carnegie Library, the Seattle Central Library is a wonder of architecture. This line from the Wikipedia article on the library sums it up perfectly. “The architects conceived the new Central Library building as a celebration of books, deciding after some […]
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 19, 2015 The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, completed in 2002, in Alexandria Egypt is the modern successor of the Library of Alexandria which is believed to have been destroyed by the Roman’s around the 3rd century. A truly grand work of architecture with many unique and distinctive features, for instance the […]
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 18, 2015 Originally built in 1906 to house J.P. Morgan’s personal library, it was made into a public library and museum in 1924 by his son. J.P. Morgan began his private collection in the 1890s collecting many artistic, literary, musical and historical works. Sources: Morgan Library & MuseumAbout the […]
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 17, 2015 Jefferson was an incredible curator of books. It is possible to even argue that the Library of Congress is really the original Jefferson library, since after the war of 1812 Jefferson sold his personal library. He rebuilt his personal library and it resided in a room down […]
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 16, 2015 This is the greatest library you will never get a chance to visit. My personal favorite because of the combination of architecture, collections, and over 30,000 volumes. This is what a library should look like. Sources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_the_History_of_Human_Imagination
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 15, 2015 When asked about George Marshall, President Truman said this: “I don’t think in this age in which I have lived, that there has been a man who has been a greater administrator; a man with a knowledge of military affairs equal to General Marshall.” He got […]
Recently, Dave Winer wrote about the current problems with Twitter and what a new social home should look like: “Our new home should be built on RSS. We know how it works. We have the ability to produce billions of feeds at scale, and there is lots of software that interops Basically DNS, RSS and […]