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LACMA members, join us Monday from 6-10pm for extended gallery hours! http://www.lacma.org/event/member-monday [Image: James Turrell, Breathing Light, 2013, © James Turrell, Photo © Florian Holzherr]
I got to see this last weekend when I visited!
Home to two literary festivals, busy book fairs, clubs and writer after writer - this is a town where people queue for poetry
Well done, Poland! I heard glowing tales of your avid readers from my bestie T. when she was based in Prague. I will visit you soon.
From bibliophiles in Iowa City, a hearty welcome to the City of Literature club, Krakow!
My New Hire Orientation is on Monday! I start work officially on Wednesday. Any Tumblarian friends have any advice or tips for what to expect for my first day/week? Libraryland here I come (part-two)!
A fairy tale book display in a shop at the Efteling Theme Park in Kaatsheuvel, The Netherland
Hipsters…
Check out this adorable, delicate little walnut book! Made from nothing but a walnut and a ribbon, the book opens to reveal an accordion of tiny photographs of Maine. It appears to be a souvenir or memory book from someone’s trip. A charming and mysterious miniature!
-Laura H.
Little mementos like this were actually super common in Victorian America! If anyone cares for sources/examples, I can rustle some up.
UPDATE: We just purchased a second walnut miniature book: 1933 Chicago Century of Progress, World’s Fair In A Nutshell. I will post a twin picture with the two together when it arrives!
Otherwise, Anne Bromer’s Miniature Books: 4,000 years of Tiny Treasures has information about “St. Louis Exposition in a Nutshell” from the 1904 World’s Fair, which is the earliest example I have found (see below). I would love to see older examples, if you can find them!
^ St. Louis in a Nutshell
I was offered the part-time Library Assistant position at a medical university-affiliated library! I'm beyond excited! I'm also nervous, because I've never worked in a hybrid special library before other than in a strictly academic context.
I feel like I'll be able to gain a lot of pertinent general library skills too, with regards to outreach, programming, collection development and analysis, and of course, cataloging.
I get to start next week, so I will definitely continue to post my library work adventures as I experience them!
(Call for Submissions) - Crossed Genres Publications, an independent publisher of spec fiction, is now soliciting short fiction stories for the March 2014 issue of Crossed Genres magazine (est. 2008). The theme is “Conspiracy”—stories of espionage, schemes, undercover operations, or spying,...
I'm interviewing next week at a university medical library!
So excited and nervous.
A little leftover from Halloween - is all your candy gone by now? Happy Friday everyone.
Source: Die entwicklung der modernen buchkunst in Deutschland
Sparkly things from ancient times.
Pairs of Disk Earrings, 525-500 B.C., Etruscan. J. Paul Getty Museum. Earrings, 220-100 B.C., Greek, Alexandria, Egypt. J. Paul Getty Museum.
Getting Library-Specific
Tumblarian friends,
I've noticed from the Hiring Librarians blog that hiring committees and managers frequently stress working in a library and getting library experience while in library school. This seems obvious to me as well, but I wonder if this overrides the skill-set and knowledge that librarians are supposed to be gaining from library school? Some of us have previous library experience before we entered library school, other's don't, so I understand that a lot of learning has to happen on the job/in the library and not just theoretically.
However, with all the emerging titles and niches in the information/library science field (frequently outside of libraries proper), what is more important to a search committee - having any skills gained from library experience, or the relevant skills gained from a position in a different field?
Vacancy at the University of Lincoln/Lincoln Cathedral. Looks pretty blinking awesome. I know nowt about it, but thought it might interest one or two folks on here.
Exam Update
I had my written examination yesterday for the Library Assistant I position. Overall I think I did well. The HR department is going to invite the highest-scoring test-takers for an interview. Fingers crossed! I would love to work for this library in particular, and to get back into working in libraries generally again. It has been too long!
Happy Halloween from the creepiest Halloween party that was ever thrown. WHAT IS UP WITH EVERYONE’S EYES?? And how about that jack-o-lantern being more in focus than any of the people?
image caption: Parker, Harold A., 1878-1930, photographer. Children’s Halloween party, 331 South Hill, Pasadena. 1929. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
The scariest (cutest) bats we’ve ever seen, straight from the Middle Ages to your nightmares.
A Nightingale; Bats, about 1250-1260, English. J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Happy Halloween!
