In case you didn’t know, it was Banned Books Week last week – the American Library Association decreed it. And if you’re following the Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Facebook page, you will already have caught a glimpse of what I’m going to be talking about here. (I should have suspected those guys would scoop me when [...]
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Really mortified
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged banned books, intellectual freedom, Nicolas Dufief on October 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Chicago is cooler than normal
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged University of Chicago Press on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here at the Jefferson Library we are great consumers of pie, leftover food, and quirky publishers’ catalogs. (Also Alpenland catalogs.) For the past month we’ve been amusing ourselves with the Shire Books catalog – you can buy entire books on things like perambulators and village pumps and Victorian undertakers from them! – but just a [...]
Why libraries are cool
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There have been a flood of news stories about the dramatic increases in usage of public libraries across the country, attributed to the economic recession the country is experiencing. Way more practical than going out and consoling yourself by buying a tube of lipstick (speaking as a woman, I don’t get that) people are re-discovering [...]
Aw, that’s not so hot
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the best parts about our jobs as librarians is that we run across some wicked-cool bits of information. Ever since first reading Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, I’ve been curious about one particular passage (of course, I wonder about these things because I’m a big time science geek). The passage reads:
Late [...]
An open source library?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged collaboration, open source, solving problems on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Say we’re a library. Specifically, a library attached to a world famous (indeed, a U.N. World Heritage-designated) historic site. We have an incredible array of information about the founding father for whom we work: scholarly monographs, popular books, documentaries, journal and magazine articles, primary sources, secondary sources–heck, we’d even have quaternary and quinary sources if [...]
Paper and Books
Posted in Uncategorized on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A friend recently commented to me that she enjoys the feel of books’ paper pages as a tactile treat — even though so many millions of pages have been converted to digital facsimiles and can be readily accessed via the Internet. The case in point was John P. Foley’s Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, originally published in 1900 [...]
African American Studies Resources Online
Posted in Websites of Note, tagged African American information resources on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I received the following update notification just now from Oxford University Press regarding the African American Studies Center fulltext file to which we subscribe. Note: this is a restricted access service available only to computer users at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation OR at any other institution with a paid subscription to this resource.
Dear Jack Robertson [...]
We almost called it…
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For your reading enjoyment, here are some other possible names for this blog that we either came up with ourselves or that were submitted by creative family, friends and coworkers:
A Nickel’s Worth
From TJ to you
Blogocello
Commonplace Review
“Your Tomgnosis”, Jeffereuna, or TJ Ousia (from a contestant armed with a Greek dictionary)
Blog of the Revolution
Sage of the Blogosphere
Monticello [...]
New Book Out There
Posted in Uncategorized on March 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As a book reviewer, I found myself looking at a new book entitled: The Pursuit of Glory: Europe, 1648-1815 by Tim Blanning coming out in June. It is a good book and it gives you a broad approach to the field, which is nice. So, if you are looking for topics such as marriage, religion, [...]
The Jefferson Suite (aka Jefferson Library)
Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Jefferson Library is approaching its 5th anniversary this April. When I saw the completed building five years ago, I couldn’t help but wonder how Jefferson himself would perceive the building. Architecture aside, I think he would love the space for all those books. It would not be such a crazy idea that he would [...]
