March 2013
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Mar 15th
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“What is your favorite word?” “And. It is so hopeful.”
– Margaret Atwood (via kateoplis)
Mar 10th
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How to Delete Accounts from Any Website Tips,... →
shrinkinglibrarian: via LISnews
Mar 10th
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October 2012
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10 Haunted Libraries of the US | iLibrarian →
Oct 12th
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September 2012
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Sep 24th
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August 2012
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Aug 14th
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Aug 14th
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Me: Tell me about more library science classes I can take this fall.
Friend: Library Sciences 306: Looking concurrently repressed and sexy
Friend: Library Sciences 444: Card Catalogs and the Women who Love Them
Friend: Library Sciences 204: Proper Anthropromorphic Stuffed Animal Placement in the Children's Section
Friend: Library Sciences 211: Young Adult or Pornography? A Contrast with Case Studies
Me: Thank you.
By the way, everyone, Kevin/Knickerbacker is that friend. He'll continue to be dedicated to librarian humor through out his soon to be illustrious Tumblr career.
Aug 14th
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Aug 14th
July 2012
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“A collection of rare books, including an illustrated copy of Paradise Lost, has...”
– “Rare books discovered in hidden cupboard” in the Scotsman (via libraryjournal)
Jul 31st
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“I spent about four hours in jail in 1956 for contempt of Congress, and while I...”
– Pete Seeger, speaking with Brian Lehrer this morning on WNYC. (via wnyc)
Jul 18th
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April 2012
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March 2012
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February 2012
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That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
Feb 19th
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January 2012
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December 2011
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Dec 13th
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Dec 9th
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November 2011
5 posts
WMUC Radio 88.1 FM: Elliott Smith Live @ WMUC, Pt.... →
wmucradio: Hello, this is David Taylor, record librarian for WMUC. I have spent the last couple days digitizing the MiniDisc containing Elliott Smith’s ‘96/’97(?) live performance at WMUC. It’s done and the tracks are now available for download. However, it is my regret to inform you that the MiniDisc is not…
Nov 29th
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Nov 23rd
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Thanksgiving Week in NYC means
 New York Public Library! (http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?805999)
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October 2011
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Oct 31st
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Five Hauntingly Hip Sides For Your Jazz Halloween →
Oct 28th
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Oct 28th
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Robert Burns, Halloween
Ah, when all of the seemingly disparate personal interests (or likes as the kids call ‘em) come together, but came together way before they were mine.   Halloween Upon that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly coursers prance; Or for Colean the rout is ta'en, Beneath the moon's pale beams; There, up the Cove,to stray...
Oct 23rd
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Oct 23rd
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How Franz Liszt Became The World's First Rock Star →
Recently introduced to Liszt through my practicum in music archives and music librarianship class.  What a badass.
Oct 23rd
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Oct 22nd
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"I See Dead People's Books"--The Legacy Libraries... →
thelifeguardlibrarian: Complete catalogs of the personal library holdings of WH Auden, Jeff Buckley, ee cummings, Theodore Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, Hemingway, and many, many, many, MANY more.
Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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“And if it’s around October twentieth and everything smoky-smelling and the sky...”
– Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes (via shrinkinglibrarian) I’ve been a lifelong fanatic of Halloween, October, autumn and all things spooky but, for whatever reason, this book/film was the one that entered my childhood psyche and terrified me.  Still have a bit of the...
Oct 20th
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Oct 19th
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Oct 12th
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“‘Books are not holy relics,’ Trefusis had said. ‘Words may be my religion, but...”
–  The Liar by Stephen Fry (via twinkling-and-remote)
Oct 9th
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Occupy Wall Street Library →
nocureforcuriosity: Their official blog. Check it out, interesting stuff.
Oct 8th
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Oct 8th
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boingboing: Polling the Occupation: What... →
iliveinafog: mlisyphus: My thought to the 93% that believe internet access* is a right and not just for the rich… freedom of information? Perhaps support for the next era in the history of the public library is more plausible than free iphones for all. *included under “communications” like cellphones, which I think is debatable. Before anybody decides these are definitive results, might I...
Oct 8th
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boingboing: Polling the Occupation: What... →
My thought to the 93% that believe internet access* is a right and not just for the rich… freedom of information? Perhaps support for the next era in the history of the public library is more plausible than free iphones for all. *included under “communications” like cellphones, which I think is debatable.
Oct 8th
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Oct 7th
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