Just gathering a list of the Information Palaces of Swansea. Image is ©Cover to Cover in Mumbles. Current Waterstones (Online Chain & Oxford Street) Cover to Cover (Online and Newton Road, Mumbles) Dylan’s Online and Mobile Bookstore Siop Ty Tawe
Prologue to a Digital Adventure
Wales’ Digital Adventure In any great project there will be more than one strand, more than one thread, that will weave a path through activities, through participants, joining together communities in new endeavours. The promise of the Digital Adventure is
Complexities: there’s not an app for that
It is still quite amazing how much the digital world can hinder, not help. It is such a fantastic resource, and opportunity, and there’s an app for that you know. But at times, maybe more than even we realise, it
Happy #NationalPoetryDay 2016
The Village R. S. Thomas Scarcely a street, too few houses To merit the title; just a way between The one tavern and the one shop That leads nowhere and fails at the top Of the short hill, eaten away
The Digital Estate
In a previous post I mentioned the idea of the Digital Estate, an idea originally from a colleague referring in a similar way to our physical estate — buildings etc. — to our online presence and world that is usually made
Digital Latin Library
Digital Latin Library digitallatin.org “The Digital Latin Library (DLL) is a joint project of the Society for Classical Studies, the Medieval Academy of America, and the Renaissance Society of America. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Scholarly Communications Program funds the
Swansea University Libraries – Delivering the Bay Library – the short story
A Shorthand social story about the building of Swansea University’s Bay Library
A Year of Digital Adventure: building our digital estate
For Wales, 2016 is the Year of Adventure. In this fledgling digital world of ours though, every year is full of digital adventures, where new technologies, services, apps, ideas and people come to the fore. The prologue to the digital
National Poetry Day 2015
… But what strange art, what magic can dispose The troubled mind to change its native woes? Or lead us willing from ourselves, to see Others more wretched, more undone than we? This BOOKS can do;–nor this alone; they give
The making of a digital language?
To be a digital, online language we might expect that various support tools are required, foundations if you like. Languages need computer support, digital tools and from these a range of advances become possible. Without these tools and foundations then