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[cynthinee]

Why student-curated exhibits are awesome. (at LMU - William H. Hannon Library)

[thehannahmachine]

Greenfield Librarian Turns Catalog Cards Into Art

GREENFIELD, Mass. — Once central to any quest to locate books within a library, the fate of card catalogs was sealed with the rise of the Internet and computer searches, relegating many of those index cards to the country’s basements, storage cabinets and trash bins.

But on a wall in the corner of Greenfield Community College’s Nahman-Watson Library, 128 artifacts from the library’s card catalog hang preserved in a glass case — signed by the authors who penned the very books to which the cards once led.

The project has been 14 years in the making for librarian Hope Schneider, who wanted to memorialize the cards after the library’s catalog went digital in 1999.

[laura-in-libraryland-deactivate]

I love this idea.

[archaeologicalnews]

Librarians in Exile group launches appeal to save Timbuktu manuscripts

A public appeal has been launched to save the hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts smuggled out of Timbuktu during the crisis in Mali, which are now facing a more insidious threat: moisture damage.

Dating back over 700 years, the fragile manuscripts range from poetry to commerce records, and are from Andalusia and Southern Europe, Arabia, Egypt, Morocco,and Arab trading ports on the Indian Ocean as well as the region of Timbuktu itself. Initially reported to have been destroyed by Islamist rebels in a fire, the 300,000 manuscripts were evacuated from Timbuktu by librarians and archivists.

Stored in the metal boxes used for their evacuation, the texts are already showing signs of damage and exposure to moisture, and experts have launched an appeal to raise $100,000 to help preserve them. The IndieGoGo campaign from Libraries in Exile is asking the public to donate money to save the manuscripts: $30 would preserve a single manuscript, while $9,000 would protect an entire footlocker. Read more.

[screwydecimal]

I don’t know who made this “Batman Returns His Library Books” poster, but my hat is off to you. 

[willywaldo]

Brilliant and funny!

[thepinakes]

Is the modern city library engaging in activities outside its proper sphere, e.g. lectures, story-telling, art exhibits, victrola concerts, loan of pianola rolls, etc.?

Papers and Proceedings of the 35th annual conference of the American Library Association, 1913 (via thepinakes)

[ohheygrace]

[pomegranate-molasses]

It’s about goddamn time.

[heuristicdevice]

Two of my favorite things in one of my favorite locations? Yes please.

[edm-life-or-die]

Walk into the library like whatup i got a weird cock

[queenston-deactivated20150821]

that is actually incredible

[bookpatrol]

Library Infographics: 1930’s style

[libraryjournal]

Swooning.

[dr-archeville]

There’s a journal called October.

It’s a quarterly.

So each year, there’s a Winter October, a Spring October, a Summer October, and a Fall October.

This is why librarians drink.

[cheshirelibrary]

hey, wait a minute …

[librarianwardrobe]

Hi! It’s about that time where you need to start figuring out what to pack for ALA. Here are some posts from the vault (or open web, or whatever) that might help:

LW special edition posts on packing  (get tips from people like Char Booth, Jenna Freedman, David Lee King, Buffy Hamilton, and more!)

LW conference photos from past conferences  (see what people have worn to previous conferences to get a sense of what might be good to pack || if you’d like to be a photographer yourself at #ala2013 and take pictures like these, fill out our form!)

Hack Library School’s LW feature  (scroll down a bit for information on packing for conferences)

Free Range Librarian’s ALA conference survival tips

Erin Dorney’s What I’m not bringing to ALA

Emily Clasper’s suitcase on Pinterest

Got any other link suggestions?

[lovingnbooking]

[unemployed-librarian]

CHUNG-CHUNG!

[libraryjournal]

LIBRARY FOR ALL: a digital library for the developing world by Library For All — Kickstarter

The library brings together content from Open Source providers and top global publishers. It is designed for low-bandwidth environments through the use of a local network topology. The platform is designed to be device agnostic. That means it can be accessed via mobile phones, e-readers or even low-cost tablets.

I met the nice people of Library for All at BEA on Friday. Check out all the cool things they are doing!

[vintagelibraries]

The Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature, Books by and about the Negro, Curator: Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick, year unknown

[enchantedengland]

   Doorway to the Schola Moralis Philosophiae (School of Moral Philosophy) at the Bodleian Library, the main research library of the University of Oxford (Oxford, England) and one of the oldest libraries in Europe. Known to Oxford scholars as “Bodley” or “the Bod”, the Bodleian contains 11 million items within on 117 miles of shelving. Ohhhhhhh. **shuddering sigh** Talk about book lust! And look at that ancient studded door!! (zoomed in shot from a Wikimedia Creative Commons image) Sheer unadulterated bliss.

[deweydecimator]

Pioneer Library System Tornado Relief Fund

Passing this along from a librarian friend who works in Oklahoma just south of Moore. Seven of her staff members lost their homes and/or vehicles in the tornado.

"The Pioneer Library System Foundation set up a fund to help support our coworkers affected by the May 20, 2013 tornado. Any donations received for this fund will go to these individuals.

Donations may be mailed with this form to our office at the address below, or given online.

Pioneer Library System Foundation

226 West Gray St., Suite 100

Norman, OK 73069

Donations can also be made to the Red Cross disaster relief fund by visiting redcross.org, dialing 1-800-REDCROSS or texting REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation."

[heavyanddissolved]

British country house libraries

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[deweydecimator]

Is that a false bookshelf/door in the top left!?