-- The Undercover Shelf --

An ever evolving collection of books, vintage images, and other things mostly related to reading, libraries, and information.

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Library Hacks: Creating Animated Gifs, via Smithsonian Libraries unbound

This is the most amazing gif EVER. I've been wanting to try making gifs for awhile now, and I love the idea of making them with historical and archival images.

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A coworker and I are pulling books on feminism, pickling, and birds for a display. Guess what the theme is?

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CACAO

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This is the best thing I've read all week.

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Wuthering Cats, perhaps?

Also, I would do anything that cat told me to do because it's kind of scary looking.

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The Walking Library

from the VSW Soibelman Syndicate News Agency Archive

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I think I just found this year's Halloween costume....

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50 Books by Women Authors to Read for #ReadWomen2014

I applaud anyone thinking of doing #readwomen2014, even as I'm not sure I'll be doing it myself in any formal way....

Really, really good, well thought out list. Brava!

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The Library Effect

Check out the gorgeous debut issue of The Library Effect: a new website with articles about the positive effect of libraries on individuals and society. I'm excited to be a part of it and love what Shannon, the creator, has accomplished with the site. Personally, I've never seen another library-related website like it! Also, consider contributing your own story to future issues.

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YES! And cats. And books about cats. Find all the books about librarian cats! ^_^

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After Almost 40 Years, Armistead Maupin Is Closing The Book On "Tales Of The City"

With The Days of Anna Madrigal , now in stores, Armistead Maupin concludes the nine-novel Tales of the City series he began in 1976. I spoke to Maupin about plotting a story over decades, the chang...

Wonderful interview with Maupin about the last volume in the Tales of The City seres. I can't wait to read it, although I'm sure anyone else who's read the series is feeling the same sort of simultaneous excitement and sadness at its ending.

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Wellcome Library Releases 100,000 Images From The History Of Medicine

If you fancy your very own piece of the often barbaric and macabre history of medicine, then a new collection of over a hundred thousand ancient images could be for you...

http://wellcomeimages.org/

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Fantastic dust cover of this classic book.

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25 Big Novels That Are Worth Your Time

What we love about big novels is that you have to get really comfortable with them. A big page count usually equals a big chunk of time.....

I had no idea Gone With the Wind was 1,472 pages because I devoured it on my Kindle. 

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Book Journal Cards

Free printable from Wild Olive blog!

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Bibliovision by Kevin Van Aelst, 2009.

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I want to make art like this.....

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From Galileo to Google: How Big Data Illuminates Human Culture

Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel

“Through our scopes, we see ourselves. Every new lens is also a new mirror.”

Two scientists set out to unravel what 30 million books reveal about the evolution of human culture over time

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Stills from Warhol's Chelsea Girls

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Just what it says: posts and photos of books you've (probably) never heard of.

So I started a new tumblr. Please feel free to follow if you're at all interested in weird, little-known, or otherwise rare books.