Toronto’s jewel of a public library system offers staffed Digital Innovation Hubs, located in 13 branches (as well as Pop-Up Learning Labs), bringing technology and education to the public. One featured service is 3D printing, and last night I attended the introductory class at Toronto Reference Library to understand how it works. Here are a …
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Robert Hooke’s (copper-plate engraving of a) flea. The other day I was fortunate to be part of a small group at the University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library’s public workshop “Introduction to Scientific Book Illustration,” presented by Alexandra Carter, History of Science and Medicine Librarian. …
Idly vanity-querying a website that was new to me, 15 years ago, I was amazed to find that my namesake (“a lusty woman”) was a prisoner at London’s Old Bailey in 1764, accused of stealing a gold ring set with diamonds from the Royal Exchange. Fortunately, she was acquitted. Unfortunately, she’d been sentenced for something …