February 2012
30 posts
“The hyperbolic mistruths, presented on the home pages of some of the world’s...”
– What Wikipedia Won’t Tell You - NYTimes.com (via infoneer-pulse)
No fan of the RIAA, much less SOPA, but this in particular is an interesting point.
(via libraryjournal)
Two Academic Library Consortia Merge Efforts to... →
thelifeguardlibrarian:
Go consortia go.
“What better place to kill time than a library?”
– The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield)
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Ohio... →
thelibrarianontherun:
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened its new library and archives to the public on Tuesday to give scholars and fans access to the stories behind the music through such “artifacts” as personal letters from Madonna and Aretha Franklin and 1981-82 video of the Rolling Stones tour. The collection, catalogued over the last few years, includes more than 3,500 books,...
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“I owe my career to the books from my local library… as much as I do the...”
– Sir David Attenborough
100 Most Powerless New Yorkers (Village Voice) →
fggtlibrarian:
This gave me laugh, but in all seriousness, it’s concerning on a few levels:
13. The NYPL’s librarians “Perhaps the only people less powerful in the library system than the homeless patrons are the librarians themselves. Gone are the days when a master’s degree in library science and a job in the nation’s largest public-library system meant that you would spend your days helping...
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Forbes: E-Book Lending Lures Readers Back to... →
January 2012
44 posts
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“Dear me, how I love a library.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
– Pablo Picasso…to which I’d respond, “Librarians give you the questions.” (via crossettlibrary)
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“Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to...”
– John Jakes (Homeland)
“Go back to the library, where you belong.”
– Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation (via knitsilanti)
