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Thursday, April 26, 2012

MAS Presents the Art Forum: Libraries as Cultural Hubs

Management Secrets: Core Beliefs of Great Bosses | Inc.com

Management Secrets: Core Beliefs of Great Bosses | Inc.com 

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She Needs More Book Reviewers! — Library Journal Reviews

She Needs More Book Reviewers! — Library Journal Reviews

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Dirty books reveal secret lives of people living in mediaeval times


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They feared illness, were selfish and fell asleep reading late at night, just like us, new research has revealed about our mediaeval ancestors.
For the first time a new scientific technique has allowed us into the minds and motivations of mediaeval people – through their dirty books.
A new technique invented by Dr Kathryn Rudy, lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews, can measure which pages in mediaeval manuscripts are the dirtiest, and therefore, the most read.




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