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The Garden 17 Apr 2013 | 07:52 pm
Every archive has an intended logic, a day logic, with well-defined topics, alphabetical orderings, hierarchical taxonomies, or cross-referenced indexes. At night we see less of what is intended and m...
41 Ferry Street, This City 11 Apr 2013 | 09:44 pm
Having a family with secrets will turn a child into a detective.
Dark Archives 14 Mar 2013 | 05:55 pm
Hello and welcome to our Dark Archives tour. Please make yourself as comfortable as you can.
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Giving Fiction a Home 14 Mar 2013 | 05:55 pm
This seems too simple to have to say, but sadly it has to be said: if you are in the business of selling fiction, your website should have fiction on it.
Chance Is a Good Librarian 7 Mar 2013 | 09:21 pm
Every society fears a new technology, and when it eventually embraces it, it does it by declaring the death of the previous technology (which never dies completely) and adapts the vocabulary of the pr...
The Library as Dinner Party 7 Mar 2013 | 09:21 pm
In this kind of book club, you're welcome any time, and there's no "too late." The Library at Night is a book for magpies and meanderers, so there are no plot points to spoil: the dinner party is dist...
The Archive is a Campsite 27 Feb 2013 | 05:25 pm
As writers, we research in-depth features, sure—but we blog to fill time between features, and we tweet to fill time between blog posts. As readers, we pull-refresh and pull-refresh again, awaiting th...
Digital Archives & the Content Strategist 27 Feb 2013 | 05:25 pm
A digital collection still needs a story to support outside interest, something stronger than “full-text searchable.” Without curation, what’s the difference between a digital archive and the rest of ...
Reading Between the Texts 21 Feb 2013 | 08:42 pm
What if intertexts could be invisible unless you were looking for them, so you could read without noticing them or mouse carefully over every word looking for clues? What if intertexts could overwrite...
The Windhill Bequest 21 Feb 2013 | 08:41 pm
This exhibition of items from Miss Windhill’s personal collection is held in conjunction with the announcement of the first holder of the position of Windhill Storyteller-in-Residence.
