Tag: collection
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A dot-com cyber-futurist library
Over 100 books from the dot-com era looking for an appreciative home I started buying books about the internet in the mid-1980s, long before I’d actually encountered it. I was…
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You know, actual curation
Everyone’s going on about curation these days. We’re all curators now. But yesterday I witnessed some of the old-fashioned variety, the kind they do in art galleries, and I was…
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The curatorial twitch
My dad was book mad. He owned a couple of thousand books, mostly non-fiction. He was an old-school, working class, self-taught polymath, a bus conductor-know-all (I’ve written about his dictionaries…