The Mountaineer Reading Room

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Here’s a little video describing WorldCat’s nice citation tool.  You’ll need to set up a free account with them, but it’s worth the effort.  Visit the RHS Library Citations page for more help.

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Science fiction author and visionary human Arthur C. Clarke died last week, just a couple days after I finished off his (and Stephen Baxter’s) Firstborn–the third and last installment of the Time Odyssey series. While I haven’t read all of his work, for years his books and stories have served as a reliable [...]

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At last, the recognition he really deserves.
Jorge Luis Borges is a difficult writer to classify, which, of course, makes him all the more interesting. How best to describe him? Perhaps as an “Anglo-Argentine classicist-inspired fantasy writer with magical realist and science fiction tendencies.” Now Noam Cohen adds cyberpunk and Web 2.0 [...]

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Check out this week’s cover story in Newsweek Magazine. Can the Amazon Kindle–and other devices like it–replace the printed book? Are people ready to upgrade from a familiar 500-year-old technology that has served civilization well?
I’m looking forward to trying it out.

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Things are busy getting the new Rainier School District Web sites up and running, and until I get that under control I’m afraid I won’t be posting too much here.
In the meantime, check out the new RHS Library site, and please notify me of any spelling errors!

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