On the power of books and machines
I spent years working in libraries. And specifically, I spent years working in special collections, stewarding and organizing everything from civil war diaries to Quaker abolitionist papers to medieval manuscripts and eventually, an entire collection of rare books.
Sometimes, the books I would acquire weren’t ‘rare’ or even necessarily old, but they fit into the collection well and added some needed context or historical information.
One such book, Questions About the Oceans, was published by NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in 1965.*
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