Book Domino Chain World Record
The Seattle Public Library launched the 2013 Summer Reading Program by trying to set a new world record for the longest book domino chain.
SPOILER ALERT: They succeeded, and it was beautiful!
Very neat.
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Around Valentine’s Day, my local library held an event in conjunction with one of the middle schools where the students got to speed date with books.
Boy do I wish they did this when I was in middle school. At least then I would have had at least one date. [sad trombone].
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Pretty cool interactive periodic table of FDR’s New Deal Programs from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
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They were more than librarians. They were cultural midwives that truly nurtured the people who came into their information domains seeking knowledge, understanding and wisdom.
Quote by Mwatabu Okantah featured at The Library as Incubator Project. He is referring specifically to two librarians, Greg Reese and Ron Antonucci, but I feel that this description can apply to so many that work in libraries.
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At 79 years old, Forest Delano Roosevelt Ferguson did not remember what he wrote to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at age eight. But his daughter thought there might be a way to find out.
With Dad unable to recollect exactly what he wrote to the President, the mystery rooted in me and started sprouting. What if I could find that letter after all these years?
During an Internet search, a website for the FDR Library and Museum appeared. “The perfect starting point,” I celebrated. “They have archives! I wonder if … oh, probably not. But maybe. Worth a try.”
I sent an email to the archival contact listed on the web site and waited. Within a week and a half, my inbox had a message waiting for me. I opened “Response From FDR Library Inquiry” and read the first paragraph.
For the full story—and a surprise find—go today’s Pieces of History Blog.
Such a neat story. Love.
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Launch of the Bookless Library ›
If your idea of a library is row upon row of nicely shelved hardcovers, then you’ll be in for a surprise when a planned new library in San Antonio opens this fall.
“Think of an Apple store,” Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff says while explaining the layout of the new library, BiblioTech.
In keeping with technological advances, the county will house a library of neatly arranged LCD screens and gadgets instead of the traditional banquet of dog-eared print and paper books. The public library will be one of the first digital-only libraries of its kind.
With 50 computer terminals and a stock of laptops and tablets on-site, the building will also offer an array of preloaded e-readers available for the card-carrying customer to take home.
I will be curious on its success (or lack thereof)..
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#the future is NOW
What Was the Last Book You Loved? We Want Your Essays!
We’re excited to announce a Tumblr Storyboard + The Rumpus partnership to highlight Tumblr writers and the books they love — an extension of The Rumpus’s ongoing “Last Book I Loved” series. Here’s how it works: Got a book you can’t stop thinking about? Send us a writeup – a little bit book review and a lot about why you loved it – along with a short bio. Beginning next month, we’ll publish our favorites every Friday, both on Storyboard and TheRumpus.net. Visit our SUBMIT PAGE for more information — and get reading!
(Card catalogue scan from the Palatina Library at the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence.)
Hello and welcome. We, The Rumpus (+ Rumblr) and Tumblr, have teamed up to make something great. Do this. You won’t regret it.
I just gotta say, talking about books you love is something librarians are really good at. Help The Rumpus and Tumblr help you become bookternet famous.
Something good for your Monday.
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The Library Project by Temporary Services ›
Very interesting interview with a group that infiltrates the Harold Washington Library with books that they disperse throughout the library while making them look like library books.
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#guerilla action up in here
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#Chicago
Happy Halloween from the library! We hope you have as many cute trick or treaters as we did this year.
I don’t know this kid but I know I want to be him when I grow up.
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#best costume
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When the Sauk City Public Library purchased a three-dimensional printer, the library’s director didn’t envision it as just a cool new piece of technology for the small-town library.
I have seen the future and I like what I see.
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I'm everywhere and now I am here.I'm happy but not perky.
There is a difference.
I'm Angie, and you are?
