December 2011
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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“The objects and their organization bind us to something larger than ourselves,...”
– Philipp Blom, in The New York Times
Dec 30th
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Books I Read in 2011, Or, Be My Friend on... →
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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“He was moving in a way I’d never seen him move in the apartment, reacting to...”
– Stephanie Clifford, in the Times. Cats on leashes? Maybe. Nice passages about cats? Definitely.
Dec 29th
“International Association of Successful Individuals jason.dean, This is the...”
– In my work email inbox this morning. Hahaha!
Dec 29th
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“Choosing a book for someone only heightens my feelings of deficiency because...”
– Billy Collins, via The New York Times.
Dec 28th
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“A reader’s tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your...”
– Jane Smiley is the author, most recently, of “Private Life,” a novel. Via the New York Times.
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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WatchWatch
Dec 24th
“Don’t become a librarian because you like to read.”
– Caro Pinto, Libarchivist — our third Five Question Friday, up this Friday. (via thecardiganlibrarian) Rather, don’t become a librarian only because you like to read. Liking books and reading is an important starting point, obviously, but there’s quite a bit more to it than that. (via...
Dec 23rd
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A Peek Inside the Libraries of Famous Writers →
Dec 22nd
Surprise books for the holidays, from the... →
Dec 22nd
“There are various methods of producing a lithograph, but the simplest is to draw...”
– Low, Susanne M., and John James Audubon. A Guide to Audubon’s Birds of America: A Concordance Containing Current Names of the Birds, Plate Names with Descriptions of Plate Variants, a Description of the Bien Edition, and Corresponding Indexes. New Haven: William Reese Co. & Donald A....
Dec 22nd
Dec 21st
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Santa's phone number? ME 2-6681. →
laphamsquarterly:  Better than Callin’ Oates? You decide. 719-26-OATES. usagov: You might know that NORAD tracks Santa’s path around the globe each year, but do you know why? Read the story.
Dec 21st
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New Organization Helps Libraries Get Artsy to... →
Dec 19th
Tumblrverse - any suggestions for a blog topic for...
Dec 19th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“A library is thought in cold storage”
– Herbert Samuel (via uflibrary) (via librarianista)
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Amazon’s Jungle Logic →
Dec 13th
“Though the conventional wisdom these days about library spaces is that students...”
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Free libraries are one of the strengths of our... →
Dec 12th
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Dec 10th
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“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get...”
– Robert A. Heinlein (via wordpainting)
Dec 9th
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