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eMagazines Update
If you enjoy browsing our eMagazine collection but have been using the Zinio for Libraries app please note that you now need to up date this to the app called RBdigital - The eMagazine collection and login details remain the same, but you can also access our eAudio books via the same app - 2 for the price of 1!
It's the August Bank Holiday weekend coming up so why not delve into our eAudio and eMagazine collections? If by some miracle the weather is nice you can put your feet up outside and listen or read to your hearts content! See https://col.ent.sirsidynix.net.uk for more information
On Tuesday 11th April, as part of this year's Cityread programme of events, Barbican Library are hosting a Play Reading Evening of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (adapted for the stage by Mike Poulton) Literature lovers are invited to join in this special evening of reading and refreshments. No acting experience is required! Dramatic parts will be drawn from a hat. Kirtle/doublet/hose/codpiece and oversized turkey drumstick optional. The event is from 6pm-9pm. Admission if free but advance booking is essential.
Welcome to London 1583!
This year's Cityread title is the gripping Elizabethan spy thriller Prophecy by S.J Parris, featuring maverick philosopher and heretic Giordano Bruno.
Pop into one of our lending libraries to get your paws on a copy!
(please note Shoe Lane Library is closed until 12th April)
It was with a heavy heart and teary eyes ("What? I've just got a bit of book dust in them!") that we said goodbye last week to our friend, colleague and City of London Libraries Tumblarian (or Mistress Of All Things Tumblr-y as I liked to call her). She is moving on to a new chapter in her library career and we wish her every success (and will miss her SO MUCH!). She was intimidatingly great at running this blog but we are going to do our best to try and fill her extremely large Tumblarian shoes! (FYI, in reality, size 7 Converse).
Hello all. This is your City of London Libraries Tumblarian, signing in not to bring the usual quality content and thoughtful commentary to which you have become accustomed (such good commentary), but to say goodbye as I leave City of London Libraries for destinations unknown (it's another library...like 20 minutes down the road).
I, as some may have cottoned onto, have had a blast running this Tumblr, but will now hand it over to my fine colleagues, who will continue to highlight the best of our libraries, whilst I return to my corner of the web, to eat chewing gum and read all the Columbo posts, and I am aaaaall out of chewing gum.
I’m out of Columbo posts to read too if I’m honest...
Anyway, good readings to all, and remember to support your local library which exists to support you.
Tomorrow will be your last chance for now to pop into Guildhall Library and see old William’s first folio (good stuff, folios two to five could have done with a little more editing and fewer bear chases tho) as a part of English Tourism Week. But not to worry, what with Shakespril up ahead, no doubt there will be more on the Bard soon enough
Look at that folio. Precioussssss...
Interactive Map: The History of Gender Diversity
This interactive map from PBS is a good starting point for people who would like to learn the history of gender diversity around the world. Although the information isn’t anything I would cite directly or take without a grain of salt, it’s a testament to the fact that gender categories are nowhere near as universal as many seem to believe they are. It also isn’t complete-there are many more peoples, cultures, and genders to explore beyond the map as well.
Related: Medievalpoc tagged “qpoc”
Do you like space? Do you like looking at it, wishing you were there instead of here, perhaps? Well NASA just did something that will make your day. The U.S...
The U.S. space agency launched a new web-based search engine for much of its catalog of images, video and audio files, which you can browse by keyword and metadata, so that you never have to remember the dismal reality that you’re earthbound ever again.
from the new pottermore article here, since no one seems to check the site anymore xD
edit; oooh that did not work. hmm. lemme try to fix it okay thats about the best I can do lol graphic is huggee
Very cool!
Classification in the library
Illustration Jiri Sliva
Someone needs to do this as a book display...
A quote so nice, we’re posting it twice. Enjoy the full interview with John Green here.
You're never lonely when you have a library
I was a latch-key child in the early - mid 70s, before it was commonplace. I had divorced parents and although my grandmother was supposed to be watching me, she often had other things to do. I was an only child in a sea of kids with many siblings, and I was often alone.
I attended Catholic school and every Wednesday we’d get out at 1PM so that the CCD kids could use the school. I had nothing to do until my Mother came home at 6-6:30. I would walk the 10 blocks to the Bay Ridge branch of the Brooklyn Public Library and spend my Wednesday afternoons picking out books. Thanks to the great librarian (I wish I could remember her name!), I was turned on to the entire history of children’s literature. I read everything from Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy stories, to the All-of-a-Kind Family books by Sydney Taylor, to Walter Farley’s Black Stallion series. I went through all of the Fairy books, and read everything I could find. My father was always traveling, and the librarian would help me find books about the countries he was visiting, so that I’d be able to talk to him about it.
I routinely borrowed 10 books and would finish them by the next Wednesday. I think I still have my old BPL card, a white card with black lettering, that would be photographed when you borrowed books. I was a voracious reader, far beyond my peers. By the time I was 10 I was reading college-level books, and I believe my academic success came from the love of reading which was fostered by the Brooklyn Public Library. I was never alone when I had a book in my hand.
We moved to NJ in 1977, and my new town didn’t have a library! I was so devastated that my Mom & I sought out a local group which was lobbying for a library. We joined, and we were thrilled when the new library finally opened.
Years later I decided that I wanted to be in a more urban environment, in a community like the one in which I grew up. First on my list was a large public library, one with resources for everyone. My husband agreed, since he, too believes that the library helps make the town.
To the unnamed Librarian in Brooklyn, thank you. <3 You gave me wings.
Seriously, Tumblr, why you gotta do this to us so early in the morning. But thank you, anonymous, for reminding us why libraries are so important and sharing your story.
BOOKS! Used and Abused: What Books Can Tell Us
We all think we know the answer to this – books are full of knowledge or stories – but have you stopped to think about how much they can tell us from the ways they’ve been used, marked, mutilated, sold or bound? Join us for a late view of our new exhibition Books: Used and Abused, at which David Pearson, author of Books as History, will build on the exhibition to explore this theme.
How deliciously booky. For more details, click.
11-year-old Sidney Keys III’s desire to see positive images of black characters in literature led him to organize his own club called Books N Bros, a reading club created to help evolve the literacy rate among his peers and to underline making reading a fun activity.
A local organization called that works to restore trust between police forces and community called Serving the Badge donated about 200 books to Books N Bros in order for members to add books to their personal book collections.
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Amazing! I’m so happy to see how one idea, by a kid who cared about his peers, blossomed into a reading initiative that is taking on a life of its own.
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London Metropolitan Archives have relaunched their fantastic archive Collage, which houses 250,000 London-related images. It’s one of the best time-hole resources around. If you like London history, definitely check this out.
me: oooh this sounds interesting, let’s do a search for “albany”
collage:
me: *starts screaming*
Ah, my work here is done. Enjoy, @fabricati-diem-pvnc, enjoy.
