Jun
16
weeks of work and fifty finger cuts later, my pop-up book is finally over.
Huge “1001 nights” inspiration
the shrinking librarian
A shy violet keeps a library & information science scrapbook.
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Little Library
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Jun
14
“Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. Mine was to hold my bookmark curled between my fingers and stroke it with my thumb as I read.”
Sweet Tooth, Ian McEwan (via emccarthy)
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Cats, Library
First thing this morning, a man came up to the desk to ask if we had a library cat.
Me: “You mean a cat that lives here? Sadly, no.”
Man: “I just read that Dewey the Library Cat book. I think this library should get a cat!”
Me: “I don’t think it’s in the cards. But that would be neat, huh?”
Man: “Tell you what. I’ll donate a cat. I’m sure there are some free kittens listed on Craigslist.”
Me: “Please don’t do that. We love animals, but we can’t have a library cat.”
Man: “How about a puppy?”
La Carreta Literaria ¡Leamos! de Cartagena (Cartagena’s Literary Wagon, Let’s read!).
Martín Murillo Gómez has been traveling with his wagon through Cartagena, Colombia. His is the only wagon that transports books.
He lends the books to readers and he also reads to the people who gather around him in parks, plazas, schools and universities.
Sometimes you’ll find him reading from a book with blank pages, stories that he has created for years to invite children to the world of literature.
His journey has led him to meet personalities such as Gabriel García Márquez, who found a copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude and sign it for him.
Thanks to Murillo’s effort and the support of others, the wagon that started with 120 books (some of which he bought with the money he made by selling water on the streets and some which were donated by people who believed in his project) now has 3,500 books.
With the support of sponsors, Murillo has been able to continue with his passion for reading and his commitment to spread the love for literature.
Jun
13
Cheltenham’s literature festival: traffic signs of poetry.
From William Blake’s “The Tiger”
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Trying to keep up will all the materials being returned sometimes…
This is summer reading. All day. Every day.
High-contrast marbled paper.
The endpapers of The Natural History of Barbados in Ten Books by Griffith Hughes (1750). Original from Lyon Public Library. Digitized July 3, 2012.
Jun
12
“It’s funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.”
Comedian and author Paula Poundstone (via juliyeti)
Speaking of which: ALA calls for accountability and transparency in nation’s surveillance laws
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I love Paula Poundstone! She’s my favorite panelist on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me and she is so right about libraries!
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SUPERHERO TRAINING. We had the safest building in the land.
Two weeks ago the library played host to a bevy of young superheroes-in-training, as they navigated a balloon mine field, a laser maze, and rescued our dinosaur citizens using only their super senses and the directions of their compatriots. They made ID cards and had a…dare I say it…super time.
A balloon mine field!
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