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Anticipation

October 25, 2019

“Baby Shark,” my latest library story, a book debut, and some ghostly good links: The latest edition of my newsletter is out. If you enjoy it, please share it with a friend. Thanks for reading. Oh, and #GoNats! It’s been a loooong time since DC baseball fans had a team in the World Series. #finishthefight… Continue reading »

Lullaby in Libraryland

July 25, 2018

  A certain piece of anti-library commentary (now removed) on the Forbes website got a lot of deservedly negative attention the last few days. At least it provided a nice lede for this most delightful story about a stuffed-animal sleepover at the Somerville Public Library. This is such a fun idea–and a reminder, if anybody… Continue reading »

Back on the Beat

December 7, 2017

I pulled off a hat trick of stories last week, all on the library/publishing beat. For Slate’s Future Tense, I wrote about “The Copyright Mavericks,” including the Internet Archive’s Sonny Bono Memorial Collection and other recent library-driven experiments in freeing up scanned and in-copyright content for library patrons to research and enjoy. For EdSurge, I… Continue reading »

The Year of Opening Up the Library

January 19, 2016

(Cross-posted from Medium.)   For all the hopes heaped on it, 2016 hasn’t gotten off to a promising start. David Bowie left us. Alan Rickman left us. Crises at home and abroad threaten the geopolitical order. I could go on. If you need a shot of optimism to get you through the dark days, look to… Continue reading »

Recent Writing

  • “The Publishing Ecosystem in the Digital Era: On John B. Thompson’s ‘BOOK WARS'”
  • “A paler shade of white”: HAVING AND BEING HAD by Eula Biss (review)
  • “Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?”

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