the shrinking librarian

Jan 23

vssk:

This is how I’m hoping to get my young niece motivated to read more —- a The Very Hungry Caterpillar reading chain, which will be put up on her bedroom wall. I designed the head to be similar to Eric Carle’s design. The head and body pieces are made from construction paper and a template (mostly just a picture of the caterpillar).
Every time she finishes a story/book, we will add a body piece (any color since I want to look cool—-I haven’t made those pieces yet). In order to know that she has read the book, we will have her read to us (at her age, she is mostly reading beginner readers which are easy to reread). When she gets to a certain number of body pieces, the caterpillar will “cocoon” and become a butterfly; those will be made at a later date along with the body pieces. This means something special will happen, like maybe a trip to the zoo.

This is how I’m hoping to get my young niece motivated to read more —- a The Very Hungry Caterpillar reading chain, which will be put up on her bedroom wall. I designed the head to be similar to Eric Carle’s design. The head and body pieces are made from construction paper and a template (mostly just a picture of the caterpillar).

Every time she finishes a story/book, we will add a body piece (any color since I want to look cool—-I haven’t made those pieces yet). In order to know that she has read the book, we will have her read to us (at her age, she is mostly reading beginner readers which are easy to reread). When she gets to a certain number of body pieces, the caterpillar will “cocoon” and become a butterfly; those will be made at a later date along with the body pieces. This means something special will happen, like maybe a trip to the zoo.

(via fuckyeahreading)

Jan 15

gummiebear727:

a readers‘ rights.

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Dec 28

thelifeguardlibrarian:

unypl:

2012 Highlights from the Underground New York Public Library

Here are ten highlights from almost one thousand photographs that have become part of the UNYPL in 2012. Each photo posted in the library is beloved. The Reading-Riders have thoroughly inspired me, in their presence and in their act of transcendence. Photographing and interacting with them in the past year has impacted me as a photographer and as a person.To them, Thank you!

Sharing the UNYPL has been so rewarding. It became part of everyday to hear from those who were inspired in one way or another by the people in the photographs. I love the idea that we inspire each other, that we experience others and we become greater for it. Thank you to everyone who has liked, shared, responded and written over the past year. You helped me build this library and I’m looking forward to taking it into 2013.

New posts will begin after Jan. 1st. A Happy and fulfilling New Year to everyone!

“Ask the Dust,” by John Fante

“Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good”, by Kevin Smith

“The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued,” by Ann Crittenden

“Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature’s 50 Greatest Hits,” by Jack Murnighan

“Othello” by William Shakespeare

“To the Finland Station ,” by Edmund Wilson

“Bared to You,” by Sylvia Day

“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” by Harriet Jacobs

“Don’t Be Sad,” by Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni

“The Savage Detectives,” by Roberto Bolaño

No doubt one of the most beautiful projects I’ve followed on Tumblr, or anywhere.

Dec 13

“Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven’t quite finished Villette. This is, I believe, the greatest gift that books give to mankind.” Joe Queenan. One For The Books (New York: Viking Press, 2012): 243. (via thesewindmills)

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Dec 11

What Makes Dickens a Lousy Running Buddy? - WSJ.com

“Nearly one-quarter of all audiobook buyers reported listening while exercising, according to a recent survey by the Audio Publishers Association, an industry trade group.

… Though the runner may not realize it consciously, his or her mind constantly switches back and forth between the two tasks—a ping-pong effect that might even be hazardous to a runner’s health.”

(via LISNews)

Nov 16

magicalnaturetour:

Daisy Found Hannah’s Diary (by torode) :)

*Used with permission. Please do not remove credit*

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Nov 7

menandtheirdogs:

Max Bemis and dogs who read

Nov 5

“Mark O’Connell confesses his dirty little reading secret: He doesn’t finish books; he’s a “promiscuous reader,” a book abandoner. He writes, “I’ll start a book, get about halfway through it, and then, even if I’m enjoying it, put it down in favor of something else.” But it’s not the books, it’s him. “I like reading too much. I can’t say no,” he writes. “I’ll be reading a novel and thoroughly enjoying it. Then I’ll be in a bookshop and I’ll see something I’ve been anticipating, and I’ll buy it. I’ll start reading the new book on the bus home that evening, and that will be the end of the original affair. I’m certainly invested in the relationship with the book that I’m currently reading, but I can’t help myself from pursuing whatever new interest happens to turn my head. Perhaps that’s just a tortuous way of admitting to being a pathetic serial book-adulterer who’ll chase after anything in a dust jacket.” Jen Doll, What Kind of Reader Are You? (via shelf-of-words)

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Oct 31

librarising:

August Sander, Blind Children, 1932

Oct 24

“I don’t believe anyone ‘should’ have read anything. 50 Shades of Grey and Ulysses may both work for you at different points in your life. Sometimes, even, in the same week.”

Nick Hornby blasts Booker, Woolf and snobbery at the 92nd Street Y (via bookriot)

Preach it, Nick.

(via thecardiganlibrarian)

(via libraryjournal)

the shrinking librarian

A shy violet keeps a library & information science scrapbook.

What Makes Dickens a Lousy Running Buddy? - WSJ.com