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Ham radio operator-KN4IJM, librarian, teaches library history, rare books & special collections. Writes Substack "Ebla to E-Books:The preservation and annihilation of memory" https://kathleenmccook.substack.com/
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Bibliomancy
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Bibliomancy
Deciding Everything with Books
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November 29, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Old Nuke Bunker is Packard Campus of the Library of Congress
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Old Nuke Bunker is Packard Campus of the Library of Congress
It holds "Susie Woosie, " part of the National Juke Box, and so much more
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November 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Borso D’Este Bible-Jubilee 2025 Highlight
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Borso D’Este Bible-Jubilee 2025 Highlight
“Mona Lisa of Illuminated Manuscripts”
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November 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Wayne Curtis: Birmingham native helped create Veteran’s Day
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Wayne Curtis: Birmingham native helped create Veteran’s Day
Also, Troy men's basketball team plays home opener tomorrow - the only home game in November. The women play the following night. Both games are free to active and retired military & Reserve military.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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"Fascinated by the Wikimedia Movement" diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/12/f...
“Fascinated by the Wikimedia Movement”
My story continues with Wikimedians around the world
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November 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Pushkin Book Crime Wave-$3.3 million Stolen
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Puskin Book Crime Wave-$3.3 million Stolen
"Overworked librarians" were fooled by thieves. Were the thefts for money or repatriation?
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November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Bibliomania; or Book Madness
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Bibliomania; or Book Madness
Princess Diana Grew up in a Fabulous Library
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November 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Carnegie Libraries Get $10K each for U.S. 250th anniversary
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Carnegie Libraries Get $10K each for U.S. 250th anniversary
Checks to arrive in January 2026
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October 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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If the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Library Used the Cotton Library Method of Organization--
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If the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Library Used the Cotton Library Method of Organization--
Whose Busts would create the Alphabetical Finding Aid?
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October 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Viet Nam lost 75% of its Archival Records
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Viet Nam lost 75% of its Archival Records
Now part of the Memory of the World
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October 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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The Third Man -Movie Before the Book
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The Third Man -Movie Before the Book
Graham Greene's sketch became a movie then a book
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October 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Video Game History Library
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Video Game History Library
Digital library for gaming history
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September 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Donald Trump Presidential Library to be in Miami
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Donald Trump Presidential Library to be in Miami
Freedom Tower will be adjacent
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September 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Taliban bans books written by women from Afghan universities (2025)
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Taliban bans books written by women from Afghan universities (2025)
Laura Bush continues to support women in Afghanistan
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September 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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THE TRIAL OF JOHN PETER ZENGER
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THE TRIAL OF JOHN PETER ZENGER
Alexander Hamilton defended first American case invoking freedom of the press as a defense to libel.
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September 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Deep Reading and the Digital Life
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Deep Reading and the Digital Life
The value of lingering in difficulty
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September 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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5 Nobel Literature Prize Authors Banned
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5 Nobel Literature Prize Authors Banned
Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O’Neill, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Bertrand Russell.
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September 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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“Enduring Impressions: Private Presses & Their Legacies”
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“Enduring Impressions: Private Presses & Their Legacies”
American Printing History Association-50th Conference
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September 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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100th issue of Anthony Powell Newsletter
"a testament to a lost era"- A Dance to the Music of Time
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September 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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100th issue of Anthony Powell Newsletter
"a testament to a lost era"- A Dance to the Music of Time
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September 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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100th issue of the Anthony Powell Society Newsletter.
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September 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Biden Presidential Library Will Be in Delaware
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Biden Presidential Library Will Be in Delaware
First press notices
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September 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth
The famously reclusive novelist amassed a collection of thousands of books ranging in topics from philosophical treatises to advanced mathematics to the naked mole-rat
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August 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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We Tried to Warn You
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We Tried to Warn You
Preliminary List of Articles that Attempted to Warn Academics and Other Scientists that their Politicization of Scholarship, Teaching, Funding, Hiring and Promotions Was a Slow-Moving Train Wreck
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August 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Rare Chinese manuscripts stolen from the UCLA Library system.
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Rare Chinese manuscripts stolen from the UCLA Library system.
Jeffery Ying replaced them with false copies
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August 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM