“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” — A.J. Liebling Eons ago, when the web was emerging from its grey-background Times Roman infancy, one of the aspects that drew me and many people to it was the relatively cheap and open platform it offered as a publishing medium. While desktop [...]
This summer, the Toronto Public Library KidsSpace website comes to life as a larger than life Dewey visits locations around Toronto. What’s a Dewey? Dewey is/are the KidsSpace mascots and they are helpful alien clones that love to read, play, and tell stories. Dewey was discovered in late 2005 by intrepid explorer, and builder of [...]
A few years ago, zinc Roe began working with the Toronto Public Library to develop a tool for displaying archival books from their various special collections branches. The library’s inspiration was Turning the Pages; a tool created by the British Library that, at the time, required the Shockwave plug-in (The British Library has recently produced [...]