Michael J. Paulus, Jr., is University Librarian and Associate Professor at Seattle Pacific University. He holds graduate degrees in divinity (Princeton) and library science (Rutgers), and regularly pr
At a Douglas Adams book talk I attended near the end of the last century,
someone asked the author what advice he had for writers. Adams’s first bit of
advice was this:
In his early modern utopian vision the New Atlantis, Francis Bacon imagined a
proto-scientific and technological society fully dedicated to the liberating
power of knowledge. Natural and divine revelation would be united “to
I recently moved and repeated a routine that has accompanied every move I have
made since I got married—defending my personal library. Every time we move, and
are confronted with the effort