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Sorry Cologne, that really stinks
Ugh. The Cologne city archives were destroyed today in a building collapse. The Times of London is suitably melodramatic: The German city of Cologne woke up yesterday without a memory. Welllllll, ok....
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hot live 24/7 librarian chat
Speaking of chatspeak, The NYPL’s Ask-a-Librarian page offers 24-hour chat access to a friendly librarian chatter/chattrix. Hello, nurse! We came across this page after checking out Radical Reference,...
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womb with a view
Yeah yeah, these 360 panorama photos are a bit of a gimmick, but sorry, this full screen pano of a beautiful library got us hot and bothered. Full screen that mother! Also, where is this? Surely...
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what, me worry, kein-ein-hora
Hot on the heels of Jesse Aaron Cohen’s 50th email exhibition of photos, graphic art, and ephemera, a bunch of Brown University comic-collecting nerds are showing off their collection, organized by...
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Punch Card from the Public Liberry
Our office has a scanner, and we have a library book titled The Causes of the American Civil War (slavery! And nothing else. I did not read the book). Sounds like a winning formula for an SD post to...
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Library Murder on the Orient Express
Oh, they shut down the mighty Donnell library, where we used to research term papers in the eighth grade*, to make room for a boom-era hotel owned by Orient-Express Enterprises Incorporated LLC. Now...
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library pr0n
Check these hot pixxx of stone cold smokin’ libraries all over the world. Yep, it’s “Red Hot and Filthy Library Smut“, brought to us by thenoist.com, featuring photos from the book Libraries by Candida...
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kicking culture in the !@$%ing face
The (epic) Fales Library at NYU (an archive housed within the larger Bobst library, we believe) has a bitchin’ collection of anthologies, zines, writings, and other ephemera from the NY downtown scene...
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nice reference
Library Journal has just released a comprehensive list of ‘best of reference’ 2009. Nice! We definitely plan to reference this list of references. For cheapskates/lazy home office bloggers like us,...
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GO WORLD
Brainchild of U.S. librarian of congress James H. Billington, the World Digital Library launched early this week. Increased is the internet/computer having world’s access to high quality digital...
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