Arthur Galwin has collected clocks for more than 30 years. In so
doing he has amassed an impressive reference library of books on the
topic. Not driven to collect First Editions, Arthur’s primary
motivation has been to cover the waterfront, to pull together as
comprehensive a collection of books on clocks as can be found anywhere
in the world.
During our conversation Arthur refers to the person who restored
John Harrison’s extraordinary marine timekeepers. That person is Lt Cdr
Rupert T. Gould. His story can be found in Time Restored: The Harrison
timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything, by
Jonathan Betts. Arthure also refers to a number of ‘classic’ book on
clocks. The include: Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers, and The
Watch and Clockmakers Handbook: Dictionary and Guide, both by F.J.
Britten, English Domestic Clocks by Cescinsky and Webster, and French
Clocks the World Over, by Tardy.
As for us non-technical types interested in this fascinating field Arthur recommends Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World by David Landes.
C.S. Richardson is an accomplished book designer
who has worked in publishing for over twenty years. He is a multiple
recipient of the Alcuin Award
(Canada’s highest honour for excellence in book design) and a frequent
lecturer on publishing, design and communications. A rare bird indeed,
he recently published his first novel The End of the Alphabet, and is
currently at work on his second.
We talk here about C.S. Lewis, the role of the book designer, the award winning Bedside Book of Birds, ‘thumbage,’ how the best book design is invisible, the best designers currently at work in Canada, the U.S. and Britain, and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, published by Chatto and Windus in England, and Knopf in the U.S. as one of the best designed books in recent memory.
Arthur Galwin has collected clocks for more than 30 years. In so
doing he has amassed an impressive reference library of books on the
topic. Not driven to collect First Editions, Arthur’s primary
motivation has been to cover the waterfront, to pull together as
comprehensive a collection of books on clocks as can be found anywhere
in the world.
During our conversation Arthur refers to the person who restored
John Harrison’s extraordinary marine timekeepers. That person is Lt Cdr
Rupert T. Gould. His story can be found in Time Restored: The Harrison
timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything, by
Jonathan Betts. Arthure also refers to a number of ‘classic’ book on
clocks. The include: Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers, and The
Watch and Clockmakers Handbook: Dictionary and Guide, both by F.J.
Britten, English Domestic Clocks by Cescinsky and Webster, and French
Clocks the World Over, by Tardy.
As for us non-technical types interested in this fascinating field Arthur recommends Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World by David Landes.
C.S. Richardson is an accomplished book designer
who has worked in publishing for over twenty years. He is a multiple
recipient of the Alcuin Award
(Canada’s highest honour for excellence in book design) and a frequent
lecturer on publishing, design and communications. A rare bird indeed,
he recently published his first novel The End of the Alphabet, and is
currently at work on his second.
We talk here about C.S. Lewis, the role of the book designer, the award winning Bedside Book of Birds, ‘thumbage,’ how the best book design is invisible, the best designers currently at work in Canada, the U.S. and Britain, and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, published by Chatto and Windus in England, and Knopf in the U.S. as one of the best designed books in recent memory.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the
Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library
Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the
ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers
Foundation and Monthly Book Reviewer for CBC Ottawa Radio One.
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation we
talk about the role of a city librarian now, at the turn of the 21
century; about library as place…where loitering is okay; accessibility,
prescriptive versus reflective provision of information; the move from
education to recreation and culture; Harry Potter in plastic;
downloading copyrighted books; the zero list; a contest between
librarians and Google; leveraging Google; the book as client versus
people as clients; nine million items going in and out; and the
necessity for librarians to be the opposite of their anti-social
stereotype.
John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter.
Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol,
he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings
(novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the unsalaried post of
Senior Editor at the Porcupine’s Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna.
We talk here about the role of the
editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation,
manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers,
diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant
Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
(For more of Nigel Beale's Musings on the Book,
Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the
Arts...please visit http://nigelbeale.com)
