#nationalfriendsoflibrariesweek

[harvardfineartslib]

We continue to celebrate National Friends of Libraries Week. I hope you got to visit your favorite libraries this week.

[morebedsidebooks]

Happy National Friends of Libraries Week!

Non-profit Friends groups across the US (and the world) work to maintain associations of people with an interest in libraries, support and advocate for libraries in their communities. If you care about libraries too, this is a great time to learn about, recognize the contributions of, join, or donate to a group in your area.

[scribesandvibes]

#EXPERIENCETHELIBRARY... Join us for #NationalFriendsofLibrariesWeek Celebration: A #FriendsoftheCovingtonLibrary Meet and Greet at #CovingtonLibrary; Saturday, October 26, 2019; 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Celebrate #FriendsofLibrariesWeek with the #FriendsoftheCovingtonLibrary, learn about the Friends, enjoy light refreshments, and discuss providing support for #theLibrary. About #COVI: https://dekalblibrary.org/branches/covi ・・・ Spread some #booklove: donate new or gently used #books to the #friendsofthelibrary | #LoveDCPL #thinkbeyondthebooks #libraryoutloud #speakoutforlibraries #volunteeratthelibrary #librariesneedfriends #friendsofgeorgialibraries | #FRIENDYOURLIBRARY: Join us for #FRIENDSNEEDFRIENDS: A #FriendsoftheCovingtonLibrary Membership Drive to #LoveCOVI for only $10 per year https://www.instagram.com/p/B32lEF5hydv/?igshid=1k29t6mymd8o3

[harvardfineartslib]

Celebrating National Friends of Libraries Week this week, we wanted to share a short video clip from our Show and Tell event. Here, András Riedlmayer, Bibliographer in Islamic Art and Architecture is showing a book titled, Palimpsests: Buildings, Sites, Time to Denise O’Malley, our Access Services colleague before the event. Every fall, András hosts  a Show and Tell  and invites students and faculty to view new acquisitions in Islamic Art and Architecture. 

"The original notion of the palimpsest--one that embodies writing, erasure, and rewriting--lends itself especially well to the interpretation of architectural monuments and landscape sites. These are by their very nature often modified significantly over time, leaving them to display a complex layering of forms and a sedimentation of meanings related to the different episodes in their ongoing lives.…. As a hermeneutic tool, the concept of the palimpsest embraces the totality of time "compressed" in a given monument or site, while permitting the extraction of a series of legible and meaningful episodes that allow us to read those palimpsests as a narrative of historical processes, whether that narrative is one of deliberate revision, or one of unintended effect. ” - Publisher's web site, viewed 3/1/2018

Palimpsests : buildings, sites, time (Architectural Crossroads: Studies in the History of Architecture, 4). edited by Nadja Aksamija, Clark Maines, Phillip Wagoner. Turnhout : Brepols, [2017] Description: 247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 28 cm.