{"id":30,"date":"2026-06-11T17:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/lauraskor\/?p=30"},"modified":"2026-06-11T17:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:57:30","slug":"literary-synchronicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/lauraskor\/2026\/06\/11\/literary-synchronicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Synchronicity"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had this experience frequently where I’m reading something that connects directly to something else I’ve recently read or heard about or thought about. I’ve decided to call this phenomenon “literary synchronicity,” and I think the story I told in my first post about the editor of The Encyclopedia of Community<\/em> surreptitiously taking my picture at a protest after I had recently cited her book for INFO 200 falls into this category. Now I find myself with another instance of literary synchronicity on my hands, this time related to INFO 287.<\/p>\n

Our current module includes a reading from Wholehearted Librarianship<\/em> in which Professor Stephens discusses the book Dear Fahrenheit 451<\/em> by Annie Spence:<\/p>\n

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I haven’t read this book yet, but it has been sitting on a shelf above my desk for about two years, ever since I rescued it while weeding books that had been de-selected from my library’s collection<\/strong>. It even made an appearance in the banner of my main SJSU iSchool blog.<\/p>\n

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I think this probably means it’s time for me to crack it open and read it! Especially since I’ve expressed that the module on storytelling is the one I’m looking forward to the most. One day I’ll start to keep track of all of these connections, but I figured I’d at least I’d share this one here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had this experience frequently where I’m reading something that connects directly to something else I’ve recently read or heard about or thought about. I’ve decided to call this phenomenon “literary synchronicity,” and I think the story I told in my first post about the editor of The Encyclopedia of Community surreptitiously taking my picture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":820,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/lauraskor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/lauraskor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/lauraskor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/lauraskor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/820"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/lauraskor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/lauraskor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/lauraskor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/lauraskor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/lauraskor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/lauraskor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}