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Archive: February 2020 (3 Posts)

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Rajah Raboid and the Business of Mystery

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This post was written by Brendan Bachmann, a visiting library science student from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Horoscopes have long been popular with those hoping for a glimpse of their future. Indeed, some individuals have made a business of the mystical, profiting from people’s curiosity of the unknown. A horoscope pamphlet that has recently …

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“The Battle Creek Diet System”: A Pamphlet and Birth of the Fake Meat Industry

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This is a guest post written by Brendan Bachmann, a visiting library science student from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Over the last few years there has been an explosion in meat substitute product popularity. The “fake meat” industry is thriving, and it is predicted by some to become worth $140 billion dollars in the …

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An Australian Librarian Visits the Library of Congress

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Brendan Bachmann is a library science student from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He spent two weeks with Business Reference staff at the Library of Congress in January 2020. Coming from a very different background, having worked for six years in various public libraries in Australia, it has been a fascinating experience spending two weeks …