Comments on: The Network of Ideas http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2002/11/26/the-network-of-ideas/ Sociology and other distractions Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:33:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Library Cards « Not Perfection http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2002/11/26/the-network-of-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-2300 Library Cards « Not Perfection Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:33:43 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=163#comment-2300 [...] Just did a bit of a google search and came across this post. [...] [...] Just did a bit of a google search and came across this post. [...]

]]> By: Kieran Healy’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Serendipity http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2002/11/26/the-network-of-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-2277 Kieran Healy’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Serendipity Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:31:47 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=163#comment-2277 [...] A few years ago, way back in the days before Crooked Timber, I wrote a post about Princeton’s old library-borrowing cards. A snippet: When I was a grad student at Princeton, someone told me that (just like most libraries before computers) the books in Firestone library used to have a pocket inside the cover where the book’s borrowing record was kept on a card. When someone wanted the book from the library, the card would be removed and stamped with the date. Faculty and students then stamped their own name on the card or (either earlier, or instead) simply signed the card when they borrowed the book. [...] [...] A few years ago, way back in the days before Crooked Timber, I wrote a post about Princeton’s old library-borrowing cards. A snippet: When I was a grad student at Princeton, someone told me that (just like most libraries before computers) the books in Firestone library used to have a pocket inside the cover where the book’s borrowing record was kept on a card. When someone wanted the book from the library, the card would be removed and stamped with the date. Faculty and students then stamped their own name on the card or (either earlier, or instead) simply signed the card when they borrowed the book. [...]

]]> By: Crooked Timber » » Serendipity http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2002/11/26/the-network-of-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-2276 Crooked Timber » » Serendipity Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:49:02 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=163#comment-2276 [...] A few years ago, way back in the days before Crooked Timber, I wrote a post about Princeton’s old library-borrowing cards. A snippet: When I was a grad student at Princeton, someone told me that (just like most libraries before computers) the books in Firestone library used to have a pocket inside the cover where the book’s borrowing record was kept on a card. When someone wanted the book from the library, the card would be removed and stamped with the date. Faculty and students then stamped their own name on the card or (either earlier, or instead) simply signed the card when they borrowed the book. [...] [...] A few years ago, way back in the days before Crooked Timber, I wrote a post about Princeton’s old library-borrowing cards. A snippet: When I was a grad student at Princeton, someone told me that (just like most libraries before computers) the books in Firestone library used to have a pocket inside the cover where the book’s borrowing record was kept on a card. When someone wanted the book from the library, the card would be removed and stamped with the date. Faculty and students then stamped their own name on the card or (either earlier, or instead) simply signed the card when they borrowed the book. [...]

]]> By: Michael Robinson http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2002/11/26/the-network-of-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Michael Robinson Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=163#comment-147 "But the hint of all this is there in that library card" More accurate than you think. Poor Lalande is shown here as a proto-low-hit-count blogger: 7 hits in 30 years. “But the hint of all this is there in that library card”

More accurate than you think. Poor Lalande is shown here as a proto-low-hit-count blogger: 7 hits in 30 years.

]]> By: Kieran Healy http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2002/11/26/the-network-of-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Kieran Healy Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=163#comment-148 Hehe. Yes, but look at the quality! :) Maybe number of hits isn't everything. (In which case there's hope for this blog yet.) Hehe. Yes, but look at the quality! :) Maybe number of hits isn’t everything. (In which case there’s hope for this blog yet.)

]]> By: Sassafrass http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2002/11/26/the-network-of-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Sassafrass Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=163#comment-149 Yes, students will never again know the romance of what happens when you discover that only you and the professors knew about certain books! Or of suddenly realizing that there is someone else in your small town on your exact wavelength, who is reading the same material. Often, the significance of information is in inverse proportion to its propagation - have you noticed? Always a delight to meet a fellow traveler on the lesser-known information byways ... Yes, students will never again know the romance of what happens when you discover that only you and the professors knew about certain books! Or of suddenly realizing that there is someone else in your small town on your exact wavelength, who is reading the same material. Often, the significance of information is in inverse proportion to its propagation – have you noticed? Always a delight to meet a fellow traveler on the lesser-known information byways …

]]> By: Crooked Timber http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2002/11/26/the-network-of-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Crooked Timber Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=163#comment-150 <strong>Treasure hunt in the stacks</strong> Kieran has previously reported on all the fun one can have browsing the stacks in Firestone Library at Princeton. The library used to require that patrons sign their name when borrowing a book and Kieran managed to find the signatures... Treasure hunt in the stacks

Kieran has previously reported on all the fun one can have browsing the stacks in Firestone Library at Princeton. The library used to require that patrons sign their name when borrowing a book and Kieran managed to find the signatures…

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