February 2011
41 posts
“A personal library is always a greatly cherished thing, but no individual can...”
– Michael Brand, p. ix, Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship
NYPL Wire–The New York Public Library: Pitchers... →
nypl:
Love isn’t the only thing in the air today. So is baseball! Pitchers and catchers are reporting! So in honor of America’s pastime, we thought we’d bring out this very cool photo from last year’s Summer Reading celebration at Yankee Stadium. Baseball and the Library - what could be better?…
“Does a pictorial work come into being at one stroke? No, it is constructed bit...”
– Paul Klee
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“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still...”
– Carl Sagan (via wingsforlashes)
“In the instinctive, restless, ever-mutating rearrangement of our library,...”
– Plizzi, M. (2010) Disordering My Library. Marquand Editions, pp. 4-5.
For the Fort Worth museum she built, Ruth Carter... →
“If the people lived their lives
as if it were a song
for singing out of light...”
– Hymn to the Russian Earth
How about recommending my tumblr to the books... →
“Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish...”
– Robert Brault (via libraryland) 