The strapline of the British Library at the moment
I was entertained to see in the bookshop, a book on Michaelangelo next to a reprint of Scouting for Boys.
is this accident, irony, post moderist digging, or a new social construction?
It reminded me of Aby Warburg's remark that the information is in the neighbours, it is the books they are next to which count
I was also reminded of the 1938 remark of A.F.Blunt, writing on the Warburg, about the impossiblility of finding anything in the (as he called it) British Museum, unless you knew exactly and precisely what it was you were looking for : "no library on the scale can be supplied with an adequate subject index"
which lead me to wonder what he knew about the Library of Congress :)
or google, digg, grep, blog, clob :)
but because I had found documentation in action by shera et al eslewhere, documentation and shera in bl with LCSH led me to information systems, shera, 1957, of which I had never heard
a blunt dialectic
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