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Map of attacks during the week of the riot.

Look around you, New Yorkers. What do you see, in the most literal way? Bricks, of course! We live in a city made out of bricks. These humble little rectangles of baked earth – red, yellow, or glazed into un […]

There’s no place like home.

Covid-19 may have closed the doors on City College’s libraries, but it hasn’t shut down the services

Campus may be all but inaccessible until at least Fall 2021, but the libra […]

Look around you, New Yorkers. What do you see, in the most literal way? Bricks, of course! We live in a city made out of bricks. These humble little rectangles of baked earth – red, yellow, or glazed into un […]

Real webs in a real library shut down the stacks.

It’s European. It’s reclusive. It’s hella poisonous.

Compare to the size of the adult European recluse spider, above. (To scale.)

You just knew they […]

There’s no place like home.

Covid-19 may have closed the doors on City College’s libraries, but it hasn’t shut down the services

Campus may be all but inaccessible until at least Fall 2021, but the […]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the Library of Congress’s Print and Photograph Division is worth 14 x 109 of them.

Pre-selfie.

There are certain inventions that explode on the scene. The […]

“If your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to take it away from you.” — Samuel L. Jackson

There is an old saying in politics, usually mis-attributed to Joseph Stalin: “It’s not the vote […]

“Information wants to be free.” – Stewart Brand (1984)

Why not just scan everything in the archive? Look what Google did for more than 40 million books forlornly sitting on library shelves throughout the […]

Resources available at sports halls of fame can make research a slam dunk.

Il Bambino x 9.

If there is one aspect of American life that cries out for archival preservation, it’s the memory of our sports […]

Mick and Keith brush up on the day’s current events.

Not everyone from the heyday of rock and roll was so burned out that they forgot to keep stuff. The original rockers and rappers, stars and wannabes alike, […]

Seek and ye shall find. But even St. Matthew needed a place to start …

Finding your way to useful archives requires more than a map and a democracy of confused opinions.

To locate who minds the archival […]