May 2013
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May 18th
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“What kind of a man can’t tell what kind of tree he’s looking at?”
– Lance Weller, Wilderness
May 18th
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May 17th
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Underground New York Public Library: a photo... →
thelifeguardlibrarian: text-block: Each photo comes with a link to WorldCat and Amazon, if you would like to borrow or buy the book. What a fantastic idea! (Edited to add some more tags.) One of my favorite projects and biggest tumblr crushes <3
May 17th
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Incredible Hulk statue to transform image of US... →
thelifeguardlibrarian: Northlake public library turns to crowdfunding website to raise $30,000 for nine-foot tall Hulk replica Congrats to Northlake on this media push. Pretty impressive.
May 17th
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May 17th
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May 16th
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May 15th
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May 15th
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May 15th
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May 14th
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May 13th
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May 12th
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May 11th
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May 10th
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May 9th
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May 8th
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May 7th
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May 6th
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Budget Cuts Hobble Library of Congress →
Just as military contractors, air traffic controllers and federal workers are coping with the grim results of a partisan impasse over the federal deficit, the Library of Congress, whose services range from copyrighting written works — whether famous novels or poems scribbled on napkins — to the collection, preservation and digitalization of millions of books, photographs, maps and other...
May 6th
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May 6th
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May 5th
“Librarianship isn’t about what we have; it’s about what we do. It’s taken us a...”
– So You Think You Want to Be a Librarian? — Publisher’s Weekly (via annaverity)
May 5th
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May 4th
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May 3rd
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May 3rd
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May 2nd
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Off with their Heads?: Matchbooks in Archives |... →
The conservator considers potential damage to and from matchbooks in collections.
May 2nd
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May 2nd
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shhh! no running in the library!: Why Shaving Your... →
thepinakes: One of our classes, a freshmen biology course, is presenting a poster session on their creek research here in the library today. As I usually do, I wandered over to check it out and to see how the students did. When I approached one poster, the two students introduced…
May 2nd
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May 1st
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May 1st
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May 1st
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May 1st
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May 1st
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April 2013
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Wikipedia’s Women Problem by James Gleick |... →
People of Wikipedia! You have a problem.
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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Recommended Reading for New and Not-So-New... →
mshdbloggins: via @LibrarianbyDay
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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