good idea!!
Yes! EVERY SINGLE LIBRARY NEEDS TO DO THIS! It’s so hard advocating for libraries in the community, reminding people just how valuable libraries are. This is an amazing way to remind people of how much they save by going to the library rather than downloading a book from Amazon to their Kindle or visiting their local Barnes and Noble.
Old book smell!!
Ah, I always wondered about that!
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so please give me a job.
Oh please tell this to my roommates who don’t get my need for a bookcase full of books.
Lovely!!
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NYC Department of Records Releases 870,000 Historical Photos Online
Photo archives!!
So awesome!!
The Vatican Library and Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries have announced a plan to digitize many of the Vatican’s ancient text collections.
The project, which will be undertaken in collaboration with Oxford’s Bodleian Library and supported by a $3.2 million grant from the Polonsky Foundation, will…
It seems so simple, but it’s not!
Some good advice on opening new books. “It needs gentle treatment, much the same as a machine needs lubricating.”
“Out of the Game” by Rufus Wainwright.
Rufus Wainwright, Helena Bonham Carter, and a library. This was a video made for me. <3
The binding of the 7th century St Cuthbert Gospel
As the earliest surviving intact Western book, the St Cuthbert Gospel is the starting point for the history of the book as we know it today.
So excited for this movie! May the odds ever be in your favor!
Ahead of The Hunger Games—now tracking bigger at the box office than Breaking Dawn!—read background on all the young cast members (and see this photo bigger) here.
Photograph by Sam Jones.
the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars
