Monthly Archives: April 2008

A Story of Stops

April 11, 2008
A Story of Stops

The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature has many amazing materials, but I’ve never before seen one quite like A Story of Stops. The book itself is wonderfully illustrated, so wonderfully in fact that I haven’t yet read it. I can’t get over the idea of a “story of stops,” written in 1891 for...

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Pamphlets from the French Revolution

April 10, 2008
Pamphlets from the French Revolution

The University of Florida has a collection of French Revolutionary pamphlets and a small few have been digitized and are now loading online. The full collection is quite large, and one of the digital collection items is a list of all of the pamphlets. It’s wonderful to see these materials online because having them...

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Law and Life, with Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates and Caribbean Law

April 7, 2008
Law and Life, with Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates and Caribbean Law

The Digital Library Center has been working on getting legal materials online for the Caribbean and from other areas in our collections. Most recently, we’ve added to our law collection with Hansard’s British Parliamentary Debates, which are one of the best sources of the political record for the United Kingdom . We’re almost done...

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Codework : Opening Keynote Ted Nelson

April 4, 2008
Codework : Opening Keynote Ted Nelson

I’m currently at the Center for Literary Studies (CLC) Codework: Exploring relations between creative writing practices and software engineering workshop, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, held at West Virginia University (and it’s April 3-6, 2008 and there’s more on it here). Ted Nelson, coiner of the word hypertext and media studies visionary spoke....

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