The title of this blog comes from Argentine writer, poet and librarian Jorge Luis Borges's short story The Aleph published in his short story collection The Aleph and other Stories in 1949 and later revised by the author in 1974. In Borges's story, the Aleph is a point in space that contains all other points and whoever looks into it can see everything in the universe from every angle simultaneously and without confusion.
Along with The Aleph, a number of contemporary thinkers believe that many of Borges's imaginative works of fiction somehow bizarrely prefigured the future of the World Wide Web. A recent book by Perla Sasson Henry Borges 2.0: From Text to Virtual Worlds compares the decentralized internet of Youtube, Wikis, and blogs with several of Borge's stories, including the Library of Babel, The Garden of Forking Paths, and The Intruder.
This blog will be my opportunity to experiment with various Library 2.0 Strategies through the 23 Things compiled by PLCMC, as well as provide a space for communication and sharing links. Cyberlandomania!!!
1 comment:
Isn't the aleph also the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet?
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