{"id":258,"date":"2005-10-03T08:53:44","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T12:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=258"},"modified":"2005-10-03T08:53:44","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T12:53:44","slug":"back-to-the-future-at-the-university-of-toronto-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/back-to-the-future-at-the-university-of-toronto-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Future at the University of Toronto Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Vinall-Cox at <a href=\"http:\/\/webtoolsforlearners.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/u-of-t-versus-google.html\">WebToolsforLearners<\/a> links to a very interesting essay in the University of Toronto magazine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magazine.utoronto.ca\/05autumn\/library.asp\">&#8220;The Infinite Library.&#8221;<\/a> Joan&#8217;s blog entry sums the piece up very well. My postcript is this little pull quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As UTL boosts its technological capabilities, Moore [Carole Moore, the chief librarian] likens the direction that the library is heading to a much earlier forebear \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a medieval library. These institutions of the Middle Ages were not only book storehouses but places where manuscripts were rewritten and information was combined and republished in new ways, she says.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a remix culture I can get behind. It&#8217;s also a little vindication for my oft-stated position that the online revolution reveals to us truths that have been hidden in plain sight for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Vinall-Cox at WebToolsforLearners links to a very interesting essay in the University of Toronto magazine: &#8220;The Infinite Library.&#8221; Joan&#8217;s blog entry sums the piece up very well. My postcript is this little pull quote: As UTL boosts its technological &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/back-to-the-future-at-the-university-of-toronto-library\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-4a","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}