Does an understanding of professional collecting, as is done in libraries, give us a better understanding of what’s happening on Tumblr, or at least help us better understand how we define curation? I turned to the founder and organizer of the Reanimation Library, artist and professional librarian Andrew Beccone, for his thoughts.
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A Place for Books in a City Where Little Else is Free
Public libraries are a beautiful idea and they’re rather universally loved but recently some artists have been engaging with the very idea and exploring its potential to be truly accessible at all times.
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Major Egyptian Library Devastated by Fire
La Libération newspaper has confirmed that the 213-year-old Institut d’Égypte, which was founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798, has been ravaged by fire.