The Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia and Joyce’s Ulysses
Michael Gallagher File this one under “How did I not know this was within striking distance of my home?” I stand in amazement at the number of small, medium, and large museums…
Education
British Library Learning Resources: Interactive Timelines and Tools for Teachers
I follow the British Library on Twitter and through an RSS feed for their press releases as I do for quite a few other library groups with innovative directions (Columbia…
Living Memories and Archived Multimedia: The Edison Collection from the Library of Congress
Trolling through a section in the Library of Congress on Immigration (great learning tool), I rediscovered a collection that I had encountered before, namely the The Motion Pictures and Sound…
My DNA Journey: From National Geographic to Donegal
Last year roughly at this time, I participated in the The Genographic Project at the National Geographic. It was a project designed to “chart new knowledge about the migratory history…
Thoughts from a train in Connecticut
I am returning home from the American Library Association Midwinter Conference in 2010. We just pulled into Mystic, Connecticut (yes, from Mystic Pizza) and I wanted to remark how pleasant…
Hamlet as (e)learner 2: Bad dreams and play
I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. –Hamlet Vincent Van Gogh bounded within his…
Magic Number 7 and the limits of learning?
We are awash in information. We drowning in our communication channels. We have access to everything so we can process nothing. All is lost. I don’t believe that. I imagine…