10 Minutes to Tumblr

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Documenting Ferguson is a digital repository that seeks to preserve and make accessible community- and media-generated, original content that was captured and created following the killing of 18-year-old, Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014. A freely available resource for students, scholars, teachers, and the greater community, Documenting Ferguson has the ultimate goal of providing diverse perspectives of the events surrounding the conflicts in Ferguson.

Community participants and media representatives are invited to contribute original digital content, such as images, video, audio, and stories related to memorials, community meetings, rallies, and protests occurring in Ferguson and the surrounding St. Louis County and City. A partnership between Washington University and St. Louis-area universities and organizations, contributed content is publicly available and is subject to an evaluation process.

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Gorilla Librarian

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Denver Public Library

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Card Catalog, Brooks Hall, San Francisco Public Libraries deep storage.

image by Anissa Malady

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featuring workshops, interactive zine wall, and a zine vending macine! 

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Elvis Presley’s Signed Library Check-Out Card

A library card bearing the signature of a 13-year-old Elvis Presley was sold at auction for $7,500, doubling estimates. The autograph is believed to be the earliest signature of the King of Rock and Roll.

The auctioneers did not expect much from the library card signed to borrow a copy of “The Courageous Heart: A Life of Andrew Jackson for Young Readers” from Humes High School in Memphis in 1948.

The card was discovered during a library inventory in the book about US President Andrew Jackson, one of the founders of the Democratic Party. The book was sold at auction along with the autograph.

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This photo of Columbus Circle by photographer Berenice Abbott was taken exactly 75 years ago today on Feb. 10, 1938. It is part of the photographer’s  “Changing New York” WPA series of hundreds of black and white photographs taken from 1935 to 1938. About 80 percent of the photos in that series are in The New York Public Library’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs - take a look and browse away. Meanwhile, notice there’s snow on the ground in this pic. Some things never change! 

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“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the Earth as the Free Public Library -- this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.”

--Andrew Carnegie

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Neon “t” for Tumblr

vicforprez from California, who specialises in making these animated files.