i've been daydreaming a brief essay on what slide libraries were like as a work/social space. Don't miss slides, but sometimes--only sometimes-- miss that space.
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I miss it, too (and being with you there, too). Slide room was a great place to catch up on all the news and gossip. I also took carousels with me to conferences and talks (and had slides get stuck because of failing labels).
feeling's mutual! Was definitely a good social space that when it worked was really good. learned a lot about teaching from unplanned conversations that happened just because you wound up in the slide library with good colleagues at the same time.
At NYU, the marvelous Robert Rosenblum was in the slide library every day, allegedgly because his office was kind of messy so the slide library was a better work space. He was a very generous presence.
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