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The 2nd Paragraph: Worst Mistake BCFL Ever Made

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Ubi sunt? 

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Pulp Library

From a friend of Rascal Library: 

http://simplebooklet.com/publish.php?wpKey=zwTY8mLCC3wV31ORtETcye&utm_source=Overdue+Media&utm_campaign=b365ce3f83-UA-127250-5&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f17681c1b8-b365ce3f83-236104765#page=1

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I Miss The Birds

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Odd Libraries

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150409-the-worlds-oddest-libraries

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The Ambient Sounds Of The Library

https://www.ox.ac.uk/soundsofthebodleian/#radcam

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Kindle Cover Disasters

Send your finds to [email protected]

My new favorite site. I really really really want to read all of these books. 

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New sign for the children's area. 

©2015 Rascal Library

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Kind of an interesting article that touches on the idea of "revelant collections" and keeping strange or stupid-looking books

For the record, I am in favor of keeping strange, stupid, weird, peculiar books with bad covers and always will be. 

Here's the article: http://www.boston.com/life/2015/02/19/someone-trying-save-you-from-awful-books-the-boston-public-library/GEDBVCqUTqU9v86IWsxcAI/story.html

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Quiet Please by Aimee Bender

My last post made me think of this story from the great collection The Girl In The Flammable Skirt. 

https://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0798/bender/sstory1.html 

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Librarians At Play II

Good essay on what Cole Porter, Sade, and Terence Trent D'Arby used to sing about: "Porn books and librarians have always had a passionate, mutually defining relationship—it was, in fact, a prudish French librarian in the early nineteenth century who coined the word pornography." 

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/12/26/checking-out/

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i'm feeling nostalgic 

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A City Run by Children - The New Yorker

At KidZania, a global theme-park chain, kids pretend to have grownup jobs, from dentist to factory worker. Rebecca Mead reports.

I'll just put this here. 

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Adventure Spaces: the future of children's programming in libraries

Read this, put away those crafts and crayons, and bring out your hammers, nails, pieces of wood, and rope:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-fusselman/the-challenge-of-adventure-playgrounds_b_5199941.html

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Tenth of December - The New Yorker

The pale boy with unfortunate Prince Valiant bangs and cublike mannerisms hulked to the mudroom closet and requisitioned Dad’s white coat. Then requisitioned the boots he’d spray-painted white. Painting the pellet gun white had been a no. That was a gift from Aunt Chloe. Every time she came over he had to haul it out so she could make a big stink about the woodgrain.

HAPPY TENTH OF DECEMBER EVERYONE! 

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Why can't we have Arthur Bradford's Dogwalker in our collection? Is it too much to ask? I have an unresolvable issues.