the shrinking librarian

A shy violet keeps a library & information science scrapbook.

[the-awesome-quotes]

Woman Quits Her HR Job To Create Paper Art

[goodywishes]

stompamudhole

[b-witched]

[boredpanda]

Tiny Paper Bookmarks Let You Grow Charming Miniature Worlds In Your Books

[books-are-my-life17]

[spott10]

[iowacitypast]

Washington Street businesses, Iowa City, Iowa, 1865

Photographer: Isaac Wetherby

Source: http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ictcs/id/718

South side of Washington Street, between Clinton and Capitol streets.

[bookriot]

Book Art Is Awesome

[iworkatapubliclibrary]

Size, Shirt

A man came up to the information desk.

Man: “I have a strange question maybe. I have a job interview tomorrow and I want to dress right for it. Do you have any idea how I can figure out my dress shirt size?”

Co-worker [without missing a beat]: “I’ll be right back!”

She returned with a measuring tape and confidently measured the man’s neck and arms. We all stared on in amazement.

Co-worker: “I used to work in a clothing shop.”

Man: “I’m glad I asked!”

[p.s. He came in a week later to report that he’d gotten the job!]

[deanyw]

[maudelynn]

Haunted Dollhouse by The Bloggess 

(ooh look at the wee tarot cards and skeleton doggy!!)

via http://thebloggess.com

[newberrylibrary]

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

This publicity poster from 1901 announced the publication in Strand magazine of The Hound of the Baskervilles, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. The story first appeared in installments in Strand magazine in England between August 1901 and April 1902, and then in America between September 1901 and May 1902. The illustration shows Sherlock Holmes on the moor, confronting a savage mastiff.

In 1902, a year after its initial publication in serialized magazine format, The Hound of the Baskervilles was published as a full book.

[johnnylists]

10 Captivating Short Stories Everyone Should Read

1. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell – The story of a big game hunter finding himself stranded on an island and becoming the hunted.

2. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov – A question is posed to a supercomputer that does not get answered until the end days of man.

3. The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov – A man passes away and has a conversation with the Voice in the afterlife.

4. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – A collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of the house.

5. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson – The story of one small town’s ritual know only as “the lottery.”

6. Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway – A couple has a tension-filled conversation at a train station in Spain.

7. All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury – A group of schoolchildren live on Venus where the Sun is visible for only two hours every seven years.

8. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut – It is the year 2081, and all Americans are equal in every possible way.

9. The Monkey by Stephen King – The story of a cymbal-banging monkey toy that controls the lives around it.

10. We Can Get Them For You Wholesale by Neil Gaiman – A man named Peter searches the phone book for an assassin to kill his unfaithful fiancée.

[mypubliclands]

Best Camera for an #EarthDay #NatureSelfie?  A Critter Cam of Course! 

In 2007, the BLM’s Las Cruces District Office in New Mexico began utilizing a trail camera to monitor wildlife use. Today, these cameras – known as “critter cams” - are deployed throughout the District. These cameras evaluate the use of guzzlers or wildlife water catchments. Guzzlers collect and store rain water in suitable habitats devoid of natural water sources. The cameras help the BLM determine whether the guzzlers are working and provide invaluable data about the animals in the area.

The BLM New Mexico and other states now share their critter cam photos with the public for rare photos of wildlife in action.  Check out a few of our favorites!  #NoPlaceLikeHome

[rachelfershleiser]

The universe is completely indifferent to your desires.

The Reason Everything Happens For (via rachelfershleiser)

[books0977]

Coco Chanel reading in her apartment at 31 Rue Cambon in Paris.

“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”  – Coco Chanel

[awesomepeoplereading]

Chanel reads.

[quinn-against-ddlg-deactivated2]

I bought my friend an elephant for their room.

They said “Thank you.”

I said “Don’t mention it.”

[dog-heaven-deactivated20161117]

Is there a joke here that 15 thousand people get but I don’t?

[bleachdalilah]

PLEASE EXPLAIN

[bumblenips]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT I’VE SEEN IT SO MANY FUCKING TIMES ON MY DASH AND I’VE SCROLLED THROUGH THE NOTES TO FIND AN ANSWER BUT I NEVER FUCKING FOUND ANY AND I DO NOT UNDERSTAND CAN SOMEONE PLEASE FUCKING EXPLAIN

[digenovanicolo]

Don’t tell them

[americasgreatoutdoors]

The first baby bison of the year have arrived at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Colorado. Last week four bison calves were born on the refuge. Here’s some cute pics of one of them with its mother. Photos by Tom Wall, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.