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Category Archives: Libraries
Making Your Mark
Most of us don’t give a second thought to the greatest human achievement in history. But now the British Museum’s new interactive exhibition Writing: Marking Your Mark is celebrating more than 5,000 years of our most amazing legacy. The exhibit, which runs … Continue reading
Weekend Links To Love
Travel On A Sunbeam with Tillie Walden’s online sci-fi comic. Get your Surrealist Starter Kit right here. Who doesn’t need some more Gorey ? Transit maps should work for residents and tourists alike. Check out this amazing but unofficial re-imagined map for … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Books, Europe, Libraries, Public Transport, Tourism, USA, Writing
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NYC Bookwagons Are Coming Back
Starting this summer, the New York Public Library will be bringing books to residents of the Bronx, Staten Island, and Manhattan via a new fleet of brand new, strawberry red-colored vans. These new NYPL bookmobiles are designed to help communities … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Libraries, USA
Tagged Bookmobiles, Bronx, New York City, NYPL, Queens, Staten Island
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The Library Project
Not long ago, I posted a story about British -Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare’s book art project at the Cleveland Library called The American Library Project. Now his companion project called The British Library has found its way into Tate Modern’s … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Libraries, Museums
Tagged Book Art, British Library, Cleveland, Tate Modern
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21st Century Libraries
Librarians from the historic California State Library in Sacramento created the cartoon-style infographic below to celebrate National Library week and to explore the many roles that libraries can play in the 21st century. Established in 1850, the California State Library … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged California, National Library Week, Sacramento
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A Bibliophile’s Treasure
In a story right out of a librarian’s dream, a previously unknown volume incorporating thousands of summaries of books from over five centuries ago, many of which no longer exist, has been found in the University Copenhagen Library, where it … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Libraries
Tagged Christopher Columbus, Copenhagen, Seville
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A Very Timely Reminder
The American Library Association recently released its annual Top Ten List of Frequently Challenged Books, included in the ALA’s State of America’s Libraries Report 2019, an annual summary of library trends “that outlines statistics and issues affecting all types of libraries. Never … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Freedom of Speech, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged ALA, censorship, John Oliver
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My Kind of Library
Lochal is a new public library and city forum in Tilburg, Netherlands. The building offers space for the public library, co-work spaces, conference rooms, spaces for arts education and a large city hall for public events, exhibitions and debates. Lochal is … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Books, Europe, Libraries, Public Transport
Tagged Netherlands, railways, Tilburg
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You should have seen him go go go
It’s been more than five years since Lou Reed’s death, but the seminal 60s rock icon has not been forgotten in New York City. To celebrate what would have been his 77th birthday, the New York Public Library has opened … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Libraries, Music, Photography, USA, Writing
Tagged Lincoln Center, Lou Reed, New York City, NYPL, Velvet Underground
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