…on the road to the Royal Library at Ninevah

…on the road to the Royal Library at Ninevah. Wait, I thought this blog was about multiliteracies? Well, it is. So what is the connection?

The Royal Library of Ninevah not only existed but until it’s destruction in 606 BC, it
was intellectual “center of the universe” of that time. It was the host to thousands of volumes of the earliest form of “books”. Those clay cuneiform remnants and that library have since evolved into websites, blogs, vlogs, and other technological representations of things literary and the internet (and soon the the Web 2.0).

From my perspective the Library of Assurbanipol at Ninevah was one of the first instances of multiliteracies that we know of. That library sits at the nexus of oral history and print. The Library marks a turning point of technology. It is for that reason that I have chosen it’s reference as the name of this blog.

The “…on the road to the Royal Library at Ninevah” blog is the result of an assignment from a class, “Multiliteracies” taught by Vance Stephens, first in 2004 and again in 2005 (when I took it). I have little doubt that my efforts to create this blog will rival the great Library of Assurbanipol, but in my own small way, I hope it adds evidence to the idea that technology and literacy “haves” or “are about to” turn another corner.

Not a library in the strictest sense, I hope to create a receptacle for information like the clay tubes that held the earliest writing in Ninevah. I don’t wish to recreate the Wiki, but I am certainly going to use it as a reference.

So join me in this travel…on the road to the Royal Library at Ninevah.