January 2011
31 posts
The story of the Amon Carter Museum of American... →
A Day in the Life of an Art Librarian →
Nature Bound at the Amon Carter Museum of American... →
“If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are the banks.”
– Wendell Ford (via librarianista)
A 12-YEAR-OLD EXPLAINS THE INFORMATION AGE'S FACTS... →
thebronzemedal:
Via McSweeney’s:
Mom, it’s gonna be a long ride to Grandma’s, and while we have some time alone together, I think it’d be good for us to talk about some things. I’m getting older, and I’m not always gonna be around the house to explain stuff to you. I know you have a lot of questions, and I want us to be open with each other. So, I think it’s time you learned where blogs and...
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“What an astonishing thing a book is. Across the millennia, an author is speaking...”
– Carl Sagan (via invaderxan) (via teachingliteracy)
“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”
– Ray Bradbury (via liquidnight)
“We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books....”
– Cory Doctorow (via shereadeverything)
“I believe there is an ethic of reading, a responsibility in how we read, a...”
– Alberto Manguel; A Reader on Reading (via wordpainting)
“Library Journal has named the one librarian everyone knows by name—Nancy...”
– I mean, I love me some Nancy Pearl, but isn’t there a librarian toiling in obscurity (you know, like, EVERY LIBRARIAN EXCEPT NANCY PEARL) who could use some recognition, and whom the rest of us deserve to hear about? (via housingworksbookstore)
Chris Ware's Rejected Fortune Cover →
