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July 31, 2013

Life is Like a Comic Book

By Brian Michael Murphy

I was raised on comic books. I never read them, but I did flip through them, since my dad gave me one of those long white boxes full of them. […]

July 31, 2013

Digital Artifacts

By Brian Michael Murphy

The books and films of the world are going digital. As we digitize, whether in the name of preservation or access (usually it’s both), we make new texts and images. […]

July 15, 2013

Confessions of a Book Killer

By Brian Michael Murphy

Last Wednesday, I killed a book. I doubt anyone will miss it–Microphotography for Libraries: Papers presented to the Microphotography Symposium at the 1936 Conference of the American Library Association. Bound […]