Episode 100: Loving Librarians

Observatory listener Jill Chisnell, a librarian at Carnegie Mellon School of Design, wrote in to ask, “What makes a good library collection?”

Jessica talks about her recent trip to the Ephemera Society of America’s latest Ephemera Fair, where

every time we went to a different booth, that dealer had organized their material differently.…So you can have the Dewey Decimal System you can have Google search engines, but at the end of the day a good Scholars going to find something between these different categories.

Also mentioned this week:

• Ralph Nader’s Open Letter to ground Boeing 737
• Ralph Nader, Unleashed Graphic Designers: Art Over Function
• Steven Heller, Design Observer, Ralph Nader, Design Critic
• Jessica Helfand, Eye, Me, the Undersigned,
• Michael, George Kennan and the Cold War Between Form and Content (2004)
• George Kennan’s Long Telegram
• Indictment in college admissions scandal
• Surrey Nano Systems, Vanta Black
• Mark Wilson, Fast Company, Scientists have discovered a shape that blocks all sound–even your co-workers
• Sally Potter, The Party on Amazon Prime; trailer

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