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[libraryadvocates]

The Library Card

As we traveled around the U.S. reporting on the revival of towns and cities, we always made the local library an early stop. We’d hit the newspaper offices, the chamber of commerce, city hall, and Main Street for an introduction to the economics, politics, and stresses of a town. The visit to the public library revealed its heart and soul.

[libraryjournal]

‘Master of the River’: A 71-year-old librarian’s 15 years of water commutes

His unorthodox method of travel to and from the District involves three bikes, the Metro and a boat.

How’s your commmute?

[nprbooks]

My commute is not nearly this awesome:

From the banks, one would see only a candy-apple-red sliver gliding on the water, framed by dense trees arching over the riverbanks. Here Horchler sits, as he does on so many mornings, admiring the sunrise, his arms moving in ­machine-like motion, oars slicing the glassy water in a smooth, uninterrupted rhythm.

Whoooosh. Whoooosh. Whoooosh.

And then, lost in stillness and the solitude of the wilderness, he runs into traffic. A beaver. They almost collide. The startled critter slaps its tail on the water, spraying Horchler, who proceeds down the river.

-Nicole

[fairmatter]

[patrondebris]

My kind of valentines from Norton.

[allthingslinguistic]

GeoLing is a new tool from LinguistList that lets you see linguistics news and events from all over the world as points on a map. (Make sure to click the menu in the top left corner and select a category or two!) 

There’s a further description of how GeoLing works in this post on LinguistList: 

GeoLing will show all linguistics-related information about conferences, summer schools, jobs, languages, institutions, and other events in a global map that is also aware of the user’s geo-location. It should run in all common mobile devices. Information that contains geo-coordinates or addresses posted on LINGUIST List (using our submission interface) will be mapped into this interface. We hope to have updated the list of institutions, conferences and events soon, so that you can benefit maximally from the new service. No matter where you are, or where you want to be in the next months, GeoLing should show you all linguistically relevant information in the region that can be extracted from LINGUIST postings or that you contribute to GeoLing.

Some of the categories are more filled out than others, so I hope people continue adding to it! 

[askhistorians]

The free library in Layou, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. c. 1957-1960.

(UK National Archives)

[a-c-e-t-y-l-e-n-e]

Analog Hard Drive or Quiet Place - Mamiya NC1000 and Ektar 100

[brokestudiesnrefs]

[05.02.2016] tfw you go to an art university library and look up children’s tales for sincere research purposes 👍

[liblinks]

It's a good feeling, yeah?

[cafeinated-blog]

library colors

[archimaps]

Inside the Vestibule of the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

[book-historia]

There’s a lot of #Caturday fodder in this 11th century manuscript of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy! Boethius’ assertion that wicked men “sink to the level of being an animal” is illustrated in the first image using The Odyssey as an example, as an angel guides Odysseus back to the safety of his ship as his immoral crew is turned into cats by Circe. A lovely lion also features in the tangle of animals that forms an initial D.

This fascinating manuscript has unfortunately been heavily mutilated throughout the years, removing a number of other illuminations and a great deal of text. However, the repairs done over the manuscript’s long history are beautiful in their own way, and show the care that has been taken to maintain it even after it was mutilated.

(MS Hunter 279, probably executed in Scotland, from the University of Glasgow Library special collections)

[mysharona1987]

[conservethis]

Yes, that’s a banana. That was used as a bookmark, in one of our non-circulating books. And then left for our staff to find over the weekend.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE??!!?!?!

I hope it goes without saying, that if you’re reading my Tumblr, you know better than to leave banana peels in books. 

[ghostlywriterr]

Sainte-Geneviève Library. Paris, France.  

[princetonarchives]

The Library Committee of the Faculty has taken up this subject and is seeking to devise remedies for the evil.

College of New Jersey (Princeton) president James McCosh, on the response of the institution to lower-than-desirable rates of library usage and circulation of books, February 10, 1887

Check the date at the end.

[bodleianlibs]

If you’ve ever wondered where our logo is from, wonder no longer. It is sourced from John Bereblock’s Queen Elizabeth I’s Oxford in 1566 published in - you’ve guessed it - 1566. The collection of ink drawings of the colleges and University buildings are some of the earliest known.

[mymodernmet]

Karl Lagerfeld Has Arranged His Floor-to-Ceiling Library Sideways

[liblinks]

Oh, Fashion.

[socialmediained-blog]

Using Twitter as a data source: An overview of current social media research tools

The popularity of social media sites and the ease at which its data is available means these platforms are increasingly becoming primary sources for social research. Wasim Ahmed presents a quick lo…