February 2011
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“Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given...”
– Edward Gorey (via teleportal)
feeltherapture:
Corridor of Books, Nicolas Grospierre
The idea is to “represent the essence of a library” and was loosely inspired by The Library of Babel in which the author, Jorge Luis Borges, describes the universe as an “infinite and cyclic” library.
librarianista:
‘Embedded Librarian’ on Twitter Served as Information Concierge for Class
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What if a reference librarian was assigned to a college course, to be on hand to suggest books, online links, or other resources based on class discussion? A media-studies course at Baylor University tried the idea last semester, with an “embedded librarian” following the...
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libraryland:
HarperCollins Puts 26 Loan Cap on Ebook Circulations
infoneer-pulse:
In the first significant revision to lending terms for ebook circulation, HarperCollins has announced that new titles licensed from library ebook vendors will be able to circulate only 26 times before the license expires.
Mention of the new terms was first made in a letter from OverDrive CEO Steve Potash to...
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Internet Archive and Library Partners Develop... →
asistubc:
Today, a group of libraries led by the Internet Archive announced a new, cooperative 80,000+ eBook lending collection of mostly 20th century books on OpenLibrary.org, a site where it’s already possible to read over 1 million eBooks without restriction. During a library visit, patrons with an OpenLibrary.org account can borrow any of these lendable eBooks using laptops, reading devices...
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Sacrifices Must be Made « Annoyed Librarian →
“By all means lobby for fair funding and show the importance of libraries, especially at the state and local level, but acting like library funding should never be cut regardless of the budget situation, or that cutting library funding in the face of a budget crisis is some sort of betrayal, is misguided at best. Librarians should be more critical and intelligent than that, and quit...
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KU Libraries conservator finds Kansas company... →
“Though she’s seen thousands of bumper stickers, Whitney Baker isn’t all that interested in what they have to say. She’s more interested in keeping them around for a long, long time.
She’s a conservator for the KU Libraries and took a five-month sabbatical to go around the country to look at bumper stickers, and she’s learned a lot about how to preserve them for others.”
(via...
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Libraries replace Dewey with bookstore... →
A handful of pioneering suburban libraries are transitioning from the librarian-loved but misunderstood Dewey to the type of organization system used by booksellers. The new layout groups books by subject rather than number, uses signs to highlight contemporary, popular categories, and displays books by their covers.
Critics say the new system is a nightmare for anyone trying to find a specific...
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Nancy Pearl's Revised 'Rule of 50' →
Give a book 50 pages. When you get to the bottom of Page 50, ask yourself if you’re really liking the book. If you are, of course, then great, keep on reading. But if you’re not, then put it down and look for another….
When you are 51 years of age or older, subtract your age from 100, and the resulting number (which, of course, gets smaller every year) is the number of pages you...
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“He held up a book then. “I’m going to read it to you for relax.”
“Does it have...”
– William Goldman, The Princess Bride (via libraryland)
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DISCOVERY: that the addition of "Harry" to almost... →
libraryland:
brittadictarnold:
“Death is not the worst that can happen to men, Harry.”
“Harry, good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”
“He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it, Harry.”
“Harry, how can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking...
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“The primary duty of literature is to tell us the truth about ourselves by...”
– Stephen King (via greeneyelashwishes)
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still...”
– Carl Sagan (via rilkes)
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via loveyourchaos, weepingclouds) (via notshybutsly)
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The Newbery Medal →
sfwritergirl:
Named after the 18th century British bookseller John Newbery, the Newbery Medal is given annually to a children’s novel from the previous year. It is awarded to the best of the best and is considered to be an extremely high honor. The well-known golden seal that adorns the cover of a recipient novel makes the book an instant best-seller and a household name across the country. The...
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Libraryland: Shel Silverstein’s Unlikely Rise to... →
mentalflossr:
This article originally appeared in mental_floss magazine.
by Mark Peters Shel Silverstein—the late cartoonist, singer, songwriter, playwright, and mega-selling author of such classics as The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends—didn’t like children’s…
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Much of Rural America Still Struggles With... →
Gina Wilson, director of the Thomasville Library, oversees 11 terminals with lightning-fast Internet access. They attract the usual array of children and the unemployed during the day, as well as college students who take classes online. At night, people stop by after work to check their e-mail or scroll through Facebook.
Mrs. Wilson noticed that after hours, people would pull into the parking...
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Choose Your Own Adventure books: How The Cave of... →
Both men wrote separately, often completely ignorant of the titles the other was producing, trusting that Bantam would coordinate the line. But they were committed to Choose Your Own Adventure and in total agreement about the series’ voice: the second-person you. After all, the series was called “Choose Your Own Adventure” not “Choose a Fictional Character’s...
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Clip joint: libraries →
“There are many reasons we need to save our libraries, not least because of their cinematic history. From thrillers to epic romances to teen comedies, the library is cinema’s go-to location when it wants somewhere with history, gravitas and a glass door that can shatter when you scream. They’re sacred places, spooky places – they’re downright sexy places. Characters can...
