Reverence Desk

the loves of a librarian

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I'd been swimming in muck all my life, and I could never quite sink in it and I could never quite get to the other side. I had to go on, choking to death a little at a time.

Jim Thompson, Savage Night

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“A Library by the Tyrrhenian Sea” Ilya Milstein 2018

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Poster for Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City

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Libraries are more than the customer service departments for corporate database products. For democracy to thrive at global scale, libraries must be able to sustain their historic role in society—owning, preserving, and lending books.

Brewster Kahle, founder of The Internet Archive, as quoted by NPR

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From Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

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It was a confusing time to care about things.

Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties: A Book

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Brownie bookplate, 1945.

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Give me better books So I can read about myself.

James Brown, “I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I’ll Get It Myself)

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From Grover’s Book of Cute Little Baby Animals, 1980.

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Swing Into Books.

From Boys’ Life magazine, November 1964. 

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Read In Peace, Coolio.

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My mother-in-law contributed to the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library fund in the ‘60s and received this form thank you note with a printed Jacqueline Kennedy signature. 

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Not cool.

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Hilary Pecis, Clementine’s Bookshelf, 2021.

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Read Free Poster for School Library Journal by Rafael López

[camewiththeframe]

If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.

John Waters, “Role Models” (via camewiththeframe)