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Facetti was so inspired by Marber’s design that he also used it for Penguin’s fiction range, and would later apply it again, practically unchanged, to the blue Pelican books. Eventually Marber’s layout became the standard layout for the entire range of Penguin paperbacks.
(via The History of the ‘Marber Grid’ - The Book Design Blog)
I’m actually quite glad that this reads as hilarious — because it means that society has come a long way from this sort of argument being commonplace. At least, that is, with respect to sexism. Pointing out the “obvious”, appealing to “nature”, and endless “but think of the good of society!” pseudo-logical rationalizations have been, and sadly continue to be, the same whether the argument addresses sex, race, religion or sexual orientation. And they all seem to stem from a fear of losing power.
— David Malki, on this book from 1894: Revolted Women: Past, Present, and to Come, by Charles George Harper.
Well, they have amongst many, thousands, perhaps millions of artefacts, thousands of paper decrypts. The decrypts of messages sent by the Germans, some possibly from Hitler himself, during the war.
Bletchley Park need help to catalogue and create a proper archive of these decrypts. They also have many other needs which, if you are interested in history, im sure you will want to help with.
”Bletchley Park and History Hackday Request | Amplified
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Brooklyn Museum — Cards from the Library Catalogs – Want some?
One of the results of projects to bring our Libraries and Archives into the digital world is that we have boxes of cards—mostly typewritten or computer generated—available for the taking and ready to be transformed into a second life. Since the Library Staff has developed an Online Catalog and systematically checked information on the physical catalog cards with the data now residing in the electronic catalog, we invite you to contact us if you wish to visit and take some of the cards and report back to show us what you created with them.
Shown above: “bookshelves” made of catalog cards.
The cards also reflect the current technology available at the time of their creation. Handwritten cards were created by the Library Staff until a typewriter became available; the typewriter was invented in 1873, but we do not have a fixed date for when one first began to be used by the Brooklyn Museum Library staff to generate cards for the catalogs. Despite this many of the cards continued to be annotated by hand since signs and symbols such as hieroglyphs could not be replicated on a typewriter.
