Anura Library

Steven: (Student) Library Technician, lover of books and nature.

[anuralibrary]

“AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.”

[bookriot]

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

[anuralibrary]

Dr. Seuss was born March 2, 1904. Consider celebrating by going down to your local public library and reading your favorite book by him.

[night-vale-public-library]

I thought all time machines were in the Museum of Forbidden Technologies, how did the Librarians get a hold of them?

There are many forgotten sorceries that the Secret Police do not know. Words have power, and those who know how to wield them properly are far more resourceful and dangerous than anyone can possibly imagine.

[aswatki1]

This. Is. Still. Happening. 

[anuralibrary]

I don't think there is an appropriately emphatic disgusted sound I can make.

[calmdowngorgeous]

Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

[night-vale-public-library]

Public Service Announcement:

The Head Librarian would like to question the person responsible for the following quote:

"Books! And cleverness! There are more important things"

Be aware that no harm shall come to yourself if you COME FORWARD NOW.

[anuralibrary]

Isn't that quote from Harry Potter?

[nolslibraries]

[anuralibrary]

Wild Animals is perhaps an overstatement, but library professionals certainly tend to be rather colourful once you get to know them.

[iweon]

Neil Gaiman suggests a new tradition for Halloween: give somebody a scary book. Would you join? http://youtu.be/1tYtLeWN5NQ

[neil-gaiman]

beautiful poster!

[anuralibrary]

Share a scary book!

[anuralibrary]

The Sixth Extinction

Kolbert has written a great book on a sobering subject. If you are informed on the environmental issues of the past decades - the chytrid fungus in amphibians, white-nose in bats, deforestation, ocean acidification, and the like - then you have the broad strokes of this book. It is not a happy subject, Kolbert is not trumpeting the message that we can change things if we act quickly, she is simply illuminating the vast impact humanity has had in our short time here. Despite - or perhaps because of - the sobering nature of the material Kolbert has elected to liberally supply readers with anecdotes - the dry whit of researchers, a zoo keeper shoulder deep in a rhino's anus, a conservation effort that involves bird hand-jobs. The humor of these tangents helps alleviate the macabre images readers are exposed to in other parts of the book. Between the horrifying and the humorous Kolbert manages to insert vast amounts of information in very lucid manner.

[library-lessons-deactivated2014]

At the library…

[lib-tech-in-the-tardis-deactiva]

Oh my…

[anuralibrary]

Beautiful!

[library-lessons-deactivated2014]

-via The Reading Room

[anuralibrary]

A beautiful poem!

[librarienne]

Just learned that the first ever card catalog was created after the French Revolution when the new government sent out a national code of cataloging instructions for all of the book collections that they had confiscated.  Because of war-time shortages, the catalogs were literally made on the backs of playing cards and threaded together.

[lib-tech-in-the-tardis-deactiva]

One source (JSTOR): http://www.jstor.org/stable/25542474

[anuralibrary]

Well, that's cool!

[bubblegumwitches]

If you don't reblog this, then you hate Harry Potter.

[harrypotternextgenerationf--blog]

mylifeisleamichele:

I’m obligated as a resident of Earth

FOREVER REBLOG

well, can’t have people think I hate Harry Potter now can I? 

I’m sorry, but my existence obligates me to reblog this. :/

FOREVER REBLOG

Who wouldn’t reblog this?

Well that escalated quickly…. <3

[cheshirelibrary]

Psychologists Find a Surprising Thing Happens to Kids Who Read Harry Potter

It’s practically magic.

Harry Potter’s greatest feat might not have been defeating Voldemort, but teaching young people around the world to battle prejudice. At least that’s the finding of a new paper in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, which claims reading the Harry Potter series significantly improved young peoples’ perception of stigmatized groups like immigrants, homosexuals or refugees…

[anuralibrary]

Books have power!

[bibliophilemartini-deactivated2]

Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.

Terry Pratchett, Snuff (via ameliaswearheart)

[lamusique-delanuit-deactivated2]

The only problem with reading a lot when you’re young is that you learn all these great words like “ribald,” and “acronym,” but because NOBODY FUCKING USES THEM you never learn how to pronounce them until way. too. fucking. late.

[bookavore]

very interesting combinations

[anuralibrary]

Some of the combinations are rather... exciting... :p