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    Bibliotechnica
    Bibliotechnica
    Bibliotechnica
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    Bibliotechnica

    By Brian Kunde

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    Bibliotechnica consists of twenty-five poems on libraries in a world of increasing change and automation, not always for the better, as observed by a bemused and not altogether unbiased participant. Read warily, or you might find them amusing — and read straight through. The effect is cumulative. The poet is a life-long Californian who has worked for the past quarter century in the Stanford University Libraries. He is a founding member of the San Francisco Bay area writers’ group Spilt Ink, author of numerous essays, poems and short stories, a play, and an aspiring novelist. This is his first ebook.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrian Kunde
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781301250110
    Bibliotechnica
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    Brian Kunde

    Brian Phillip Kunde, writer, poet and artist, is a life-long Californian. He is a founding member of the San Francisco Bay area writers’ group Spilt Ink, author of numerous essays, poems and short stories, a play, and an aspiring novelist. This is his first ebook, though samples of his writings and some whole works are available on the Internet. On the net Brian is best known for the essays “A Brief History of Word Processing” and “A Brief History of Bay Area Parks and Open Space,” the web projects The Best English-Language Fiction of the Twentieth Century and The Works of Mary Tappan Wright Online, and his authorship of hundreds of Wikipedia articles, mostly on literary subjects. In the mundane world he has spent the past quarter century as a serials specialist with the Stanford University Libraries following earlier stints at the California Academy of Sciences and NASA/Ames Research Center.

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      Bibliotechnica - Brian Kunde

      Bibliotec(hnic)a

      poems

      by

      Brian Phillip Kunde

      Fleabonnet Annual 17

      Published by Fleabonnet Press at Smashwords

      Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2013 Brian Kunde

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      Contents

      Precis

      Notice to Patrons

      Portal Monitor

      Library Scene

      Reshelving

      Borrower Blues

      Library Labor

      Back to Work

      The Process

      The Donor

      Scaling Back

      Non-Roman Materials

      Serial Receiver

      Ditch Diggers

      Databasing

      Computer Cries

      Ebrary

      System Freeze

      Modem Operandi

      System Change

      Paperless Society

      Electronic Blues

      Elevator

      Asbestos

      Book Sale

      Year’s End Doldrums

      Credits

      About the Author

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