...the following recently came to my attention:The Book TV Channel on YouTubeAnd...100 Awesome Youtube Vids for Librarians.Let the sound of no work getting done begin.
Boston Book Fair
Steven Schuyler reports on the Boston ABAA Fair. Some money quotes:"But the 'elephant in the room,' to use a good American expression, was the economy, which presented itself, as one colleague called it, as a 'cloud of caution' over the book fair."And..."The gap in value between truly uncommon material and the commonplace item is widening."Not to mention..."[William Reese] was concerned about a lack of young DEALERS. 'This business takes too long to learn, to become accomplished. I don’t see enough young, well educated bookish people going into the business as first careers these days. It requires too much experience to...
Monopoly anyone?
Simply gorgeous: BiblioOdyssey's 500 Years of Board Games.
Fine Books and Collections
Ian Kahn of Lux Mentis today on his blog confirms what I had been hearing in the rumor mill: that Fine Books and Collections will cease publication of its print magazine. Apparently there are plans to continue it as a web-only venture. This will be a real loss.
New Book on Mysterious Map-Maker
Washington Post review of John Hessler's The Naming of America: Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 World Map and the Cosmographiae Introductio - How was it that a German priest writing in Latin and living in a French city far from the coast became the first person to tell the world that a vast ocean lay to the west of the American continents?That is one of the bigger mysteries in the history of the Renaissance.But it is not the only one involving Martin Waldseemueller, a map-making cleric whose own story is sufficiently obscure that his birth and death dates aren't known for certain.Waldseemueller...