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Articles, Essays, and Items of Special Interest

Why We Have Libraries and Museums

A short essay by E.R. Beardsley

Digital Gutenberg: everyperson as publisher

(PDF) an essay by E.R. Beardsley

A paper first published in 1994 the journal Image, International Museum of Photography, George Eastmans House, Rochester, New York.

The article has since dispersed across the internet, finding addional life on university and special interest websites across the world.

MotherGoose, Motherboards, & Museums

(PDF) an essay by E.R. Beardsley

A white paper written in 1994 for the Working Group for the Digital Image - E.R. Beardsley being one of its members - at International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.



Making Technologies People Don't Have to Think About

(PDF) an essay by E.R. Beardsley

Making Technologies was originally presented to a May 1998 colloquium of the Computer Science Department, University of California-Riverside. It was subsequently published as an essay at Intangible.org.

Secrets of the Stone City

(PDF) an article by John Oliphant published in 2002, Reader's Digest, Asian Edition. The article was in part based on an interview with Felicia R. Beardsley, archaeologist.

Tales from the Field at the Why Files

Running afoul, an interview with Felicia Beardsley about here fieldwork on Easter Island and in the Republic of Palau.

One of Beardsley's duties was to greet volunteers at the airport, and that attracted the resentment of local hotel owners who were in the airport hustling business for their lodgings. The owners complained, and the police brought her in for questioning: "I was grabbed by two soldiers with machine guns, brought into a tiny room at the back of the airport for questioning. 'Who are you?' the soldiers screamed in Spanish. 'What are you doing?'"