quote [ Metal. Magic. Gods. War. Voodoo. Mood Whiplash. The Beatles. Chocolate Cake. ]

quote [ As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier. ]

quote [ I?m a librarian, and I see libraries as being primarily driven by access. If you want a book or an article or a piece of data, libraries will help you get access to them. Whereas archives are driven by preservation. For that book in the archive that you want to read, every time it?s pulled that off the shelf, the archivist is thinking if there?s some damage that?s happened to the book. ]

quote [ "Machines will take over, modern man will become a living blobb. California will not be on the map and the weather will change through out the world" ]

quote [ Alternate title: Harry Potter and the Neoliberal Menace. Or Harry Potter and the Inexplicable Meritocracy. Hello everyone! Spoilers for Fantastic Beasts 2 an... ]

quote [ One of life?s great treats, for a lover of books (especially fantasy books), is to open a cover to find a map secreted inside and filled with the details of a land about to be discovered. ]

quote [ How folk tales and traditional life snuck into avant-garde kids' books in the 1930s. ]

quote [ Considered by many one of the founding texts of the science fiction genre, The Blazing World ? via a dizzy mix of animal-human hybrids, Immaterial Spirits, and burning foes ? tells of a woman?s absolute rule as Empress over a parallel planet. Emily Lord Fransee reflects on what the book and its author Margaret Cavendish (one of the first women to publish using her own name) can teach us about empire, gender, and imagination in the seventeenth century. It is the middle of the seventeenth century and a Bear-man is helping an empress attempt to examine a whale through a ]