http://commonplaces.org a theological librarian's marginalia Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:21:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It is not a digital library but a tool for building digital libraries. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet in the form of a fully-searchable, metadata-driven digital library. It ... http://commonplaces.org/2010/05/21/installing-the-greenstone-digital-library-software-on-ubuntu-1004-lucid-lynx/ Okay, I'm shamelessly plugging my new (somewhat) remunerative endeavor. I bind books. I rebind books. I make them from scratch, and I repair them. It's what I enjoy, and though this enjoyment had until recently been shelved until I finished my library science degree (MSLS, at the University ... http://commonplaces.org/2010/05/12/readersrepair/ From a recent release: As of April 1, 2010, the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) will be available free of charge on the Getty Web site at http://library.getty.edu/bha. Free Web access to BHA is an advantage not only to all traditional users of the database but also to such ... http://commonplaces.org/2010/04/05/the-getty-now-provides-free-access-to-the-bibliography-of-the-history-of-art/ St. Augustine famously argued that community is created as people with common affections for something mutually esteemed have opportunity to communicate about and celebrate those common affections. Oliver O'Donovan's book "Common Objects of Love" was an exposition of this idea for modern culture. This have profoundly shaped my ... http://commonplaces.org/2010/04/02/oral-history-augustines-definition-of-community-and-good-friday/ Commonplaces.org has a new look, and as I put the finishing touches on it I welcome your initial impressions and suggestions. Also, I am writing this on the Wordpress app for the iPhone, and would like to hear your experiences with this app, if any. http://commonplaces.org/2010/04/02/new-look/ A recent announcement from the Internet Archive: The Internet Archive is pleased to announce an important manuscript, Homiliary on Gospels from Easter to first Sunday of Advent, as the 2,000,000th free digital text. Internet Archive has been scanning books and making them available for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and ... http://commonplaces.org/2010/04/01/internet-archive-2millionth-digitized-text/ Can [the] discussion of narrative and historical interpretation remain true to the community of discourse from which it emerges and to our professional vision of what the community should ask of its history? -- Ronald J. Grele, "Useful Discoveries: Oral History, Public History, and the Dialectic of Narrative," The Public ... http://commonplaces.org/2010/04/01/oral-history-and-greles-useful-discoveries/ Benjamin Myers, a professor of Systematic Theology at Charles Sturt University's School of Theology in Sydney, recently compiled twelve theses on libraries and librarians on his blog, Faith and Theology. I recommend his blog, a self-described forum for conversations about theology, books and culture. Take a look at the theses ... http://commonplaces.org/2010/03/31/12-theses-on-libraries-and-librarians/ Abstract This essay seeks to provide a via media in the discourse of social indexing versus professional manual indexing by arguing that the use of social indexing can indeed be useful, and perhaps even the most practical option for imminent use, but should be employed in the service of the eventual ... http://commonplaces.org/2010/03/05/social-indexing-as-an-intervening-measure/ It has been said, “There is no substitute for experience, but letting your wife do it is the next best thing.”1 This colloquialism expresses an idea that is more profound than an initial reading might suggest. The idea is that a personal, first-hand, internalized knowledge of information is ideal since ... http://commonplaces.org/2010/03/05/the-triumph-of-surrogacy/