Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Book Cliffs (Colorado & Utah): Dear Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden (and please forward to Librarian Carla Hayden's LoC address - and is this correct - carla.hayden@gmail.com - as a personal email address?) . . . Library of Congress - Hispanic and European Reading Rooms - W 11/27/24 * PSa Library of Congress 'Country Studies' this is a great list of Countries at the Library of Congress - https://www.loc.gov/rr//frd/cs/list.html and how best to interoperate it as databases with https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States and /Library_Resources ... AND in Google Street View with a time slider (re a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory too and especially ... as Google Street View with a time slider 'comes alive' as an emerging iterating realistic virtual earth with avatar agents )? (And search on #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory here in this Sunday 10/12/24 daily blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/10/hippeastrum-calyptratum.html - * * * 'Proposed Reedie+ (Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, student alumni) book group beginning' ... on Saturday 12/14/24 as I potentially depart asylum in Pennsylvania on Tue 12/10/24 to drive to Canyon 94516 ~


Dear Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden (and please forward to Librarian Carla Hayden's LoC address - and is this correct - carla.hayden@gmail.com - as a personal email address?) . . . Library of Congress - Hispanic and European Reading Rooms - W 11/27/24 


Dear Mr. Torres-Gonzales (jtorresgonzalez@loc.gov - Library of Congress), and Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden (and please forward to Librarian Carla Hayden's LoC address - and is this correct - carla.hayden@gmail.com - as a personal email address?), 

Very nice to meet and talk with you on W 11/27/24 in Hispanic and European Reading Rooms, Mr. Torres-Gonzales. And thank you for the resources below in PSs.

I'm writing to introduce further the planned online libraries at MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS (https://www.guidestar.org/profile/27-3105368) not only in all ~200 countries (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - with major WUaS Universities emerging from here) and in their main languages, for matriculating WUaS students - for free online Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school/similar, AA/AS and MA/MS degrees - but also online libraries planned in all 7164 known living languages at WUaS (and extinct languages as well) - with this as the beginning of the wiki side of this - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources - in English - so far onlly.


MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS as I mentioned is developing ~200 online WUaS major online research libraries in all ~200 countries' (per Olympics) main languages, and potentially building out of all national libraries and greatest universities' libraries in all these countries too. MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS is seeking to make it possible to enter via, for example, Google Street View / #GMaps with time slider -




any and all libraries on the planet, and pick a book as a PDF (Portable Document Format file presently) or similar off a shelf and from home for free and read it, study it, do research with it, in innovative digital ways too, and such that one could also TIME SLIDE back in Google Street View to, say, the Thomas Jefferson Library of Congress Building in 1897 when it opened in Washington DC, - and from paintings and photos of the book shelves from that year, added to Google Street View with time slider, pick each and any of these books off these virtual shelves and, again, read the book then and there in one's home.

Here's the idea expressed concisely in a set of Tweets from a few months ago - 

#RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries -
Searched '#YaleLibraries in 1960s & '70s' - #GoogleAI #YaleUniversity's libraries held a variety of collections, incl New Schools Exchange, #AfricanAmericanHistory & controversial twin study (#WUaSgenetics) -https://news.yale.edu/2003/02/11/yales-beinecke-library-exhibits-african-american-documents-60s-and-70s #WUaSML ~










How best to explore adding all of the Library of Congress's whole collection to Google Street View with time slider ... and for the American Public, but especially for WUaS matriculating degree students, and not only for WUaS students from the USA but from each of all ~200 countries, (and possibly as WUaS in collaboration with the Library of Congress grows major online research libraries in all ~200 countries ... potentially to make in a sense the Library of Congress the largest library in the world by being, and in all ~200 countries as well)? 

Such a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries (Twitter #Hashtag) would interoperate with a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForEverythng with this INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article from #PeterNorvig "Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI: #WorldUniversityINSchool" - 
https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 (updated March 2, 2024) - being the first time anyone other than WUaS that I know of has mentioned the idea of a - https://x.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click.

Thoughts about how MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS might proceed with developing all of the above with the Library of Congress? 

Looking forward to staying in touch about some of this via email and Twitter +

All the Best, thanks, Friendly regards, 

Scott
Scott GK MacLeod 






PS
Library Guides 

PSa

Library of Congress 'Country Studies'

this is a great list of Countries at the Library of Congress - 
https://www.loc.gov/rr//frd/cs/list.html

and how best to interoperate it as databases  with https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States and /Library_Resources ... AND in Google Street View with a time slider (re a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory too and especially ... as Google Street View with a time slider 'comes alive' as an emerging iterating realistic virtual earth with avatar agents )? (And search on #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory here in this Sunday 10/12/24 daily blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/10/hippeastrum-calyptratum.html - 

Hippeastrum calyptratum: Was Harvard & MIT Professor of genetics' George Church like many many students at Andover, Duke and Harvard in the 1960s and early 1970s a hippy? * many many students at Andover, Duke and Harvard in the 1960s and early 1970s were hippies or hippy including George Church, I posit * * How can #GeminiAIandML learn re #1960sHistory - & regarding hippies & people esp of the 1960s & '70s? Was #AgeReversalGenetics geneticist Dr #GeoChurch a hippy then? I'd & #WUaSunivs posit he was. How best to #WikiStudy #HippyHistory in #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory #AIandML? ... 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/10/hippeastrum-calyptratum.html ).



PPS

Hispanic Reading Room and European Reading Room are located on the second floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, in the Southeast Pavilion

https://guides.loc.gov/french-collections/european-reading-room#:~:text=The%20European%20Reading%20Room%20is,access%20to%20all%20reading%20rooms.



PPPS
from the yellow post-it that Mr. Torres-Gonzales at Library of Congress wrote out for me after we talked about some of the above - 

Library Guides

Country Guides

Joseph Torres-Gonzales 


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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2025, forthcoming) 

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
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1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity 
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12/3/24


LoC logo 

How best @LibnOfCongress - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/12/book-cliffs-colorado-utah.html to access handle & study in a #RealisticVirtualEarth -think in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider -@WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSUnivs one of 51 M books or 173 M objects fr #USFedGovts #LibraryOfCongress #physicalLOC 






LoC Reader ID card pic from 11/27/24 (Scott GKM 3rd)

How best @LibnOfCongress - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/12/book-cliffs-colorado-utah.html to access handle & study in a #RealisticVirtualEarth ~think in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider ~@WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSUnivs one of 51 M books or 173 M objects fr #USFedGovts #LibraryOfCongress #physicalLOC 






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add entire 51 M books of #USFedGovts' #LibraryOfCongress 
TO  Library of Congress in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider -
for accessing books in #RealisticVirtualEarth?







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How best @WorldUnivAndSch (& @WUaSPress) to add entire 51 M books of #USFedGovts' #LibraryOfCongress 
TO  Library of Congress in #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider -
for accessing books in #RealisticVirtualEarth?












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Cool! Got a free #LibraryOfCongress #ReaderIDCard @ #physicalLOC in Washington DC on W 11/27/24 w access online to some of 51 million books, & some of 173 million catalogued objects! Much #WUaSpotential for #WUaSstudents from all ~200 #countriesWUaS in #RealisticVirtualEarth esp


AND 






Retweeting



AND


Retweeting





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How best @WorldUnivAndSch (& @WUaSPress) to add the entire contents of the #USFedGovts' #Library OfCongress 
TO #GStreet View w #GTimeSlider -
Library of Congress
for accessing books ? 





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'Proposed Reedie+ book group beginning' ... on Saturday 12/14/24 as I potentially depart asylum in Pennsylvania on Tue 12/10/24 to drive to Canyon 94516 ~


Dear Robin (Phillips, US Federal lawyer in RTAP now), Bay Area Reedies +, Gabrielle, Byron & Cindy, Donna, Jim, Ed & Valerie, Gantt, JoAnne, Konrad (Alt), Steve (Carlson), (& PLEASE FORWARD TO other Reedies in group whose emails I couldn't find), and greetings, friends, All, 

Was glad to see Reedie T.. L......... in DC over Thanksgiving, and to mention this "Proposed Reedie+ book group beginning in ..." ... Well (with my mother's encouragement too on Sunday) I think I'm going to drive west (to show WUaS's and my "serious interest further" - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/12/large-magellanic-cloud-yogagenetics-how.html) from asylum in Pittsburgh to the SF Bay Area departing around Tu 12/10/24 (after picking my mother up at the airport from seeing her first grandchild again in Portland Maine) and seek to get to Canyon 94516 by Saturday, December 14, 2024 so that we could hold the first Proposed Reedie+ book group beginning at around 4pm at 670A Ridgecrest Rd Canyon 94516  ... Robin, thanks again so much for your RSVP and am hoping I can still welcome you to 670A Ridgecrest Road,Canyon 94516 around 4pm on 12/24/24 or when you might get there. You are all welcome to this first "Proposed Reedie+ book group" and please RSVP further if you can ... 

For this first "Proposed Reedie+ book group beginning"... shall we talk about very short 'book' "The Desiderata" - https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html - as well as begin to 'pencil in' or put together a list of books to read together for 2025 ... potentially suggesting a book which we've read   ... and decide on a monthly meeting day (on the 2nd or 3rd Saturday of the month, or ...??) ... And how could or might we organize this "Proposed Reedie+ book group " party further ... such that we could have 15-20 people per gathering (over centuries or millennia or longer even?:) ... possibly developing further aspects of the Conference Method of Teaching and Learning per Reed - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Conference_Method_of_Teaching_and_Learning - AND potentially develop an open-ended book reading community of 10-15+ Reedies+ monthly for a potluck and gathering too (potentially at a different Reedie's house monthly ) ... and again even over the centuries or millennia ahead (with extreme longevity genetic drug therapies emerging - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity /genes)  ... possibly bringing SF Bay Area Reedies together in new ways even re Reed College 'communitas' (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Reed%20College ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/communitas)? Good potluck food? 


Again (from the June 27 2024 email in this thread) - 

"Your book ideas or suggestions, and a month you might suggest reading it in  ? ... 


Gabrielle - 

Jim - 

Sally - 

Byron - 

Cindy - 

Donna - 

Gantt - 

Vadan - 

Ed - 

Valerie - 

JoAnne - 

Konrad - 





Others? Please add yourself to this email thread - and suggest a book ... Reedies+ 


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Two books that I enjoyed immensely and which I might suggest for a year or two hence are:

 Nobel Laureate's Kazuo Ishiguro's 
"Klara and the Sun" (2021) 

and the comic novel 

Kiran Desai's 
"Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard" (1998)
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hullabaloo_in_the_Guava_Orchard ) "


MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School is growing, and this Canyon place may become the its first property INCREDIBLY ... and to grow too there a Physical-Digital WUaS Academic Medical Center (online in all ~200 countries) with virtual Harbin Hot Springs' warm water cure (and perhaps we can check out the cattle trough above beautiful Indian Valley about 1/3 mile from 670 on East Bay MUD land, which could become a physical simulacra of actual Harbin Hot Springs, and for physical-digital research and related processes at WUaS), and with WUaS Longevity Genetics' Institute ...

Perhaps this first "Proposed Reedie+ book group ..." in Canyon will help inaugurate the above World University and School growth intellectually or re the 'life of the mind' as well :) (And the Desiderata "book" as prose poem too is short! )


In yesterday's open 12/2/24 WUaS News and Q&A, I explore further, re Reedie T.. L......... -  
"such that you, T.., might become US Secretary of State in 2028 or at least further up the list? "
Check it out :) 


Reed regards, warmly, see you soon I hope (in 2 Saturdays potentially), all best, 
Scott 







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