January 2011
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WatchChallenger Astronaut Ronald E. McNair’s Library Legacy
Twenty five years ago the nation watched in horror as the space shuttle Challenger exploded in the air, creating a massive fireball just 73 seconds after launch from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. The tragedy shook the entire world and prompted NASA to evaluate its shuttle program and review the future of space travel.
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“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance,...”
– Lemony Snicket
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Proposed Budget in Texas Nearly Zeros Out Key... →
Why secondhand bookstores (and libraries!) smell...
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powells:
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a...
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“You, as librarians, stand at the door beyond which this infinity resides…As the...”
– Rita Dove
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“If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are the banks.”
– Wendell FordÂ
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“[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen...”
– Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer: A Novel (via liquidnight)
