A real-life Bookman
From Gay Talese’s New York: A Serendipter’s Journey. John T. Murphy was a “veteran sleuth” and Supervising Investigator for the New York Public Library.
Libraries and the book
Alberto Manguel: “If we change the role of libraries and librarians without preserving the centrality of the book, we risk losing something irretrievable.”
Jack DeJohnette on Muhal Richard Abrams
“He was always telling us, ‘Go to the library.’”
Supporting the Ferguson Library
I like the idea.
A call-number surprise
The Book of the Courtier, and just two books away on the library shelf: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
Know Your Library of Congress Classification Title
An exciting new game.
At the Library of Congress
In 1941.
From the British Library
A British Museum stamp, from the British Library’s Flickr pages.
The libraries of Route 66
“Route 66 abounds in physical labor and fisticuffs, but Tod (Martin Milner) and Buz (George Maharis) and, later, Linc (Glenn Corbett) still make time to use a local library — twice.”
Borges manuscript found
Found, in Argentina’s National Library, an unpublished bit of writing by Jorge Luis Borges.
The Wheel of Information
Five tiers, eight hundred books, forty-five years on the job.
Library of Congress (1945)
There’s so much to like in this Academy Award-nominated film, which celebrates reading and scholarship and humankind.
Nabokov on working in the library
“There is, of course, the problem of educating the young.”
NYPL, a series of tubes
Pneumatic tubes in use at the New York Public Library.
Digital naïfs in the news
College students have difficulty with Google and academic databases and with asking librarians for help.
Romney Wordsworth, obsolete
Fifty years ago, a world without librarians and libraries was the stuff of a totalitarian nightmare. Now it seems that we’re closer to living in The Twilight Zone.
Cutting libraries
. . . in a recession is like cutting hospitals in a plague
Library slip (1941, 1992)
Due dates, 52 years apart
Library book returned after fifty-four years
To the Jersey City Free Public Library
So gangsta
Graffiti from the University of Chicago Library
Awful Library Books
A blog
Libraries in hard times
Excerpt from New York Times article
Bookman!
Libraries get tough collecting overdue fines
"A lot out there is conspiring to distract you"
More on continuous partial attention and reading habits : I recently spoke with a junior who was stressed about her decreasing ability to f...
Homer rules
Homer in top 10 library books