Monday, 31 July 2017

thoodleoo: thoodleoo: is he, you know….(mimes killing hector and dragging him around the walls of...

thoodleoo:

thoodleoo:

is he, you know….(mimes killing hector and dragging him around the walls of troy) bi

anyway i had too much fun coming up with euphemisms for gay classicists so here y’all go, have some more

  • she rides with the amazon warriors
  • he plows his fields in a bucolic landscape
  • she studies under sappho
  • he prefers greece to rome
  • violets are her favorite flower
  • he’s built a few walls in britain


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What Bookworms Actually Want

paperfury:

  • to be locked in a library
  • to be served snacks while reading
  • cover changes mid series to be illegal


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Email privacy protection measures introduced in Senate - District Dispatch

Email privacy protection measures introduced in Senate - District Dispatch:

libraryadvocates:

“No freedoms are more vital, and important to librarians, than those of inquiry and speech. Without real privacy, Americans effectively have neither. Current law that allows our government to get and view the full content of our most private electronic communications without a search warrant isn’t just outdated, it’s dangerous in a democracy. ALA strongly supports the bipartisan Lee/Leahy “ECPA Modernization Act” to finally and fully bring the Electronic Communications Privacy Act – and with it our fundamental rights to privacy, inquiry and speech – into the modern era.” - ALA President Jim Neal



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Sunday, 30 July 2017

fontanalib: douglaslibraryteens: Come cozy up next to our book...



fontanalib:

douglaslibraryteens:

Come cozy up next to our book fireplace as the weather gets colder! #douglaslibraryofhebron #bookdisplay #bookart #booksculpture #aniceandsafefireplaceforthelibrary

This is so neat!



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Friday, 28 July 2017

Local libraries build a foundation for science, tech

Local libraries build a foundation for science, tech

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Halifax libraries considering book vending machines

Halifax libraries considering book vending machines

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Philly comic shop awarded $50,000 to open more doors

bookriot: Literary Merit of Comics and Graphic Novels for...



bookriot:

Literary Merit of Comics and Graphic Novels for Kids

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Wednesday, 26 July 2017

during the battle between Harry and Voldemort in the graveyard during the triwizard tournament

death eater: *leaning and whispering* does anyone else think its like kind of weird that the dark lord is super hype about being better at magic than a 14 year old
death eater 2: be quiet Crudatorious im serious
death eater: no i mean I get it its a revenge thing but its like, dark lord is like sixty something right? and he graduated wizard school already. and this kids like a teenager
death eater 2: for real Crudatorious he will kill us

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Northern Ireland libraries lose ancestry service in £5.5m cuts - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Northern Ireland libraries lose ancestry service in £5.5m cuts - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk:

readingbythestarlight:

Sad to hear the news that Libraries NI is axing its heritage services which included talks, family history fairs, family history workshops and book launches, due to cuts of nearly £5.5m and is planning on reducing staff who work in these areas.



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chrisriddellblog: Neil Gaiman on Libraries and Librarians.



















chrisriddellblog:

Neil Gaiman on Libraries and Librarians.



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ladynorbert:

jkl-fff:

nicolethestrange101:

heatherm00ch:

I reblog this every time I see it. I just cant

THIS IS WHERE THE MEME CAME FROM

Seriously, though, the French LOVED Edgar Allan Poe,
thanks in particular to Jules Verne.

He even wrote a sequel to Poe’s only novel,
and numerous essays about how great an author Poe was.

By all accounts, Poe (who lived a penniless life in the US)
really *was* baffled by all of this.

Reblogging because I never saw that part before!



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When the character in the book is a POC but then the movie adaptation comes along...

Tuesday, 25 July 2017

santacruzpl:Princess Bride for the win!









santacruzpl:

Princess Bride for the win!



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sparkitors:With this spellbinding project, insanely talented...















sparkitors:

With this spellbinding project, insanely talented artist @littlechmura​ wanted to create a self-contained moment for each of these beloved Harry Potter characters—a single scene that gives a glimpse into their own magical worlds. She’s calling the series “One Breath Each”, and we’re calling it GORGEOUS AF.



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How realistic is the story of Tarzan?If you think there’s a lot of unrealistic aspects to the story...

How realistic is the story of Tarzan?

If you think there’s a lot of unrealistic aspects to the story of Tarzan, you’d be right.

However, a human baby being successfully raised by an ape is not one of them (in the book he’s raised by a fictional species called the Mangani, in the movies it’s often gorillas).

Children raised by wild or semi-wild animals are actually surprisingly common (or at least far more common than you’d expect).

They’re usually referred to as “feral children”.

There have been confirmed recorded cases of human children being raised by gazelles, ostriches, bears, sheep, cattle, monkeys, pumas, wolves, dogs, and chimpanzees.

In the case of the chimpanzees the boy was raised from 6 months old to age 2 (when he was discovered by humans), so an infant Tarzan being successfully raised by another great ape would by no means be unprecedented.

Side note: it would seem that in a lot of cases with feral children, they tend to be children who were abandoned by their human parents due to having extreme mental/physical disabilities, and were subsequently found and cared for by their non-human parents.

In a number of recorded cases of children raised by wolves, they were children orphaned during World War II.



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Monday, 24 July 2017

heathyr:sometimes ………….. books that are considered classics…………. are worse Ok, but like, this is...

heathyr:

sometimes ………….. books that are considered classics…………. are worse

Ok, but like, this is super important. 

Just because it’s a classic doesn’t mean you have to like it, and not liking it doesn’t make you uncultured or uneducated.

Books, like people, have their own personality. Much like the four parts that make up a human personality, books have their own:

Setting
Character
Plot
Language

Depending on your tastes, the language has to be a certain way, the plot has to be fast/slow paced, etc. And just like how there’s a certain trait you value in your book above the others (in my case it varies between plot and setting), you also have your turn-offs too. 

Mine is language. I find it really hard to get into stuff written in an 1800s style (Dickens, Austen, Tolkien, etc) or in Shakespearean English. I can watch them as shows without a problem, but read them? Hell to the no.

I’d rather read Kit Marlowe (Shakespeare’s rival) over Shakespeare any day. And I’m an English major with a Master’s in Library Science.

Give me Gordon Korman, Kenneth Oppel, or Eoin Colfer over Dickens and Austen.

It doesn’t mean I don’t like any classics. 

L.M. Montgomery? Her I’m strangely okay with. Original versions of fairy tales? Love ‘em. Myths and legends in old-timey language? I’m also fine with.

You’ll have some classics you’ll love and some you won’t. 

That’s okay

The trick is to try them. If you like it, keep reading. If you don’t, put it down and try something else. 

It’s okay to not finish a book. It’s your right as a reader.



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I found this stashed away amongst the pictures in my computer. I want one.

withbooksyomiismiles: Journaling, coffee and a book = perfect...





withbooksyomiismiles:

Journaling, coffee and a book = perfect night



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vintagelibraries: Den gamle Universitetsbibliotheks-Bygning i...



vintagelibraries:

Den gamle Universitetsbibliotheks-Bygning i Christiania  (The Old University Library in Christiania), 1860.



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Saturday, 22 July 2017

The Not-so-Secret Life of Librarians: Community Librarians

Some of you may remember a post I wrote a while back lauding seasoned librarians who take us newbies under their wing and mentor us (bless y’all to the moon and back). Well, my mentor is Claudio Bringas, a community librarian at Edmonton Public Library’s Enterprise Square branch, in downtown.

But what does a community librarian do? Aren’t all public librarians community librarians? I asked Claudio if he’d be willing to answer a few questions, and he very graciously agreed.


What does an average day look like for you?

It depends. Some days are mainly about contacting people, emailing, making phone calls. Sometimes you could spend the day writing reports, and other days you would be delivering programs outside of the library. It’s difficult to describe an average day—it varies day to day.

Sometimes we have internal team meetings, and also meetings with different community members. For example, this afternoon I have to meet somebody from a community league and also the Community Recreation Coordinator for the City of Edmonton. They’re planning on setting up an English language training program (something like a conversation circle) at the community league, and are interested in knowing what the library can do to help. That’s an example of what a community librarian meeting outside of the library would be about.

In some branches, community librarians have to do more desk hours than others. When I was at the Stanley A. Milner branch, I only had to do one day every so often. Here at Enterprise Square, it’s whenever I’m needed, so I’ve been doing much more desk hours than I used to.

You became a Community Librarian back in 2008, when the EPL first started hiring for such a position. How would you say community librarianship has changed since then?

Well, one thing is the perception of the people outside of the library. The different community groups are more aware of community librarians and have a better understanding of what we do, whereas at the beginning it was very strange. People didn’t know why we wanted to attend certain community meetings, go to interagency meetings, or participate in this or that event. Now they’re always inviting us to go. I think that’s because they’re more aware of what we do, and aware of the library services as well.

Before, people would think, “The library’s there, they have their books and collections, and that’s about it, right?” Now the public is starting to become aware of the changes. I think it’s because the community librarians are engaged with different groups, and we’ve been doing a wide variety of activities that people wouldn’t see as traditional library programs.

Internally, for us, I would say that in the beginning we had much greater freedom to do different things, explore different programs, whereas everything is now more regulated and has to be justified. For example, as far as programs: if you want to create a program, it must be approved and follow the appropriate channels. Your proposal has to go to the teams that oversee certain types of programs. In the beginning, it was like, “Well, this is something new, and we’ll just try it out.”

A cast-out-a-net-and-see-what-comes-back kind of thing. See what sticks.

Yeah. And that’s pretty much what I did when I moved to the Stanley A. Milner library from the Londonderry branch. My manager said, “Basically, there’s this area that the Downtown library serves. We’ve been focused on one specific area (which was the inner city, the East side of downtown), but there’s also this whole other side where we have lots of organizations and different places. You go and explore to see what’s there. Go and.… do whatever.”

If you had to give one advice to hopeful community-librarians-to-be, what would you say?

That they would need to have a lot of experience in different community initiatives. Just a library degree by itself isn’t enough.

So the message is, “get involved”—right?

Yeah. The people they’ve been hiring lately are people that have all these great experiences and have done all these wonderful things, internships here, setting up libraries there… It makes it very difficult for other people to compete if they don’t have those experiences.

When I got this job, I was one of the first five, and I don’t think any of us had those types of experiences. We were just straight out of library school. I think if I were to apply now, I wouldn’t have a chance. So that’s what I would suggest: Get involved with community groups and initiatives, whether it’s a paid job or volunteering.

The other thing I would say is that if somebody likes a job where they’re always in control of everything, everything has to be a certain way, this job is not for them. [laughs]


About Claudio: Claudio Bringas is one of two community librarians at Edmonton’s central public library branch. An Aussie by birth, he mostly grew up in Chile before moving to Canada in 2001. He graduated from the University of Alberta’s MLIS program in 2007.

About the Edmonton Public Library: The EPL currently has 18 branches spread out across Edmonton, as well as a few lending machines in busy areas of town. It has a full-time Community Librarian per branch, except for its central branch (which has two) and Highlands branch, which has two part-time community librarians instead (co-community librarians, if you will).


Want to learn more about the not-so-secret life of librarians? Check out my first post on what librarians do and my posts on my volunteer job as a spider librarian (part 1, part 2, part 3)! :)



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Thursday, 20 July 2017

Enter a Huge Archive of Amazing Stories, the World’s First Science Fiction Magazine, Launched in 1926

Enter a Huge Archive of Amazing Stories, the World’s First Science Fiction Magazine, Launched in 1926:

libraryjournal:

Like the extensive list of Hugo Award winners, the back catalog of Amazing Stories encompasses a host of geniuses: Le Guin, Asimov, H.G. Wells, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, and many hundreds of lesser-known writers



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Comics Cross Over | Genre Spotlight: Graphic Novels

Comics Cross Over | Genre Spotlight: Graphic Novels:

libraryjournal:

San Diego Comic-con 2017 starts today!  Check out our preview of the forthcoming GN publishing season. “This year, we see more genres blending and mutating into fresh forms of storytelling, emerging voices are finding their earliest expressions, and creative teams large and small (some comprised of only a single creator) are forging truly fantastic material for every occasion, every mood, and every reader.”



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Greentown libraries to be closed

Greentown libraries to be closed

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Wednesday, 19 July 2017

beautifulmedievalmanuscripts: Hours of Margerite d'Orleans |...



















beautifulmedievalmanuscripts:

Hours of Margerite d'Orleans | Gallica



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STL Public Library offers children free lunch

STL Public Library offers children free lunch:

To



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If you’re thinking of watching Game of Thrones, just be aware...

Area libraries to supply eclipse glasses

Area libraries to supply eclipse glasses

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Montana State Library forced budget cuts expected to impact Bitterroot libraries

Montana State Library forced budget cuts expected to impact Bitterroot libraries

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NGO to re-position public libraries in Nigeria - Tribune

NGO to re-position public libraries in Nigeria - Tribune

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Indian Trails Public Library to install solar panels with $100,000 grant

Indian Trails Public Library to install solar panels with $100,000 grant

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alrightanakin: strange-book-club: alrightanakin: After 11 years...



alrightanakin:

strange-book-club:

alrightanakin:

After 11 years of wondering if Turkish Delight is good enough to sell out my family I finally made some

so..is it?

well if i was a 10 year old in 1940 during world war ii when there was sugar rationing and i had been sent away to some stranger’s house with my siblings who (particularly the elder 2) were being real jerks and i had no idea that the seemingly kind lady offering the turkish delight was the literal embodiment of evil™ who would kill my family and myself once she no longer had any use for us then yeah i would do it



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Sunday, 16 July 2017

neurodivergent-crow: who knew snorlax was dairy-powered?





neurodivergent-crow:

who knew snorlax was dairy-powered?



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Cats are an extreme outlier among domestic animals

Cats are an extreme outlier among domestic animals:

moontyger:

Writing in Nature Ecology & Evolution, Ottoni and his colleagues report that five distinct clades of ancient wildcats rapidly spread outward from relatively small origin points. Over millennia, the clade from Egypt and Southwest Asia began to dominate the world. Mostly this was due to the spread of agriculture. Farming practices that began in the Levant and Western Asia took hold elsewhere, attracting rodents to grain stores. That, in turn, attracted wildcats, who eventually joined farming communities as companions—just as ancient dogs had joined hunting parties in the Paleolithic.

Then the researchers started to see weird data points, like an Egyptian cat at a Viking sea port during the Middle Ages, and Asian cats at a Roman Red Sea port during the height of the Roman Empire.

They realized that many of these cats were spreading along shipping routes. During classical antiquity, ships’ captains always kept a cat aboard to remove vermin. By the medieval period, it was unlawful in some places to sail without a ship’s cat. As time went on, these cats escaped in ports far from home. There, they would interbreed with local cats. Eventually, the genes of the Egyptian and southwest Asian clades began to win out over others.

Nobody is certain why Egyptian cats were especially popular, but it may have been because of their friendly dispositions. The researchers note that the ancient world’s obsession with Egyptian cats was so intense that it became a political issue, and a “local ban on cat trading [was] imposed in Egypt as early as 1700 BCE.” Still, Egyptian cats continued to “spread to most of the Old World.” Over time, Mediterranean house cats were all from the Egyptian clade.



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Test Your Knowledge of Jane Austen’s Life — and Afterlife

Test Your Knowledge of Jane Austen’s Life — and Afterlife:

scvpubliclib:

As Janeites around the world pay tribute to Jane Austen on the 200th anniversary of her death, test your knowledge of Austen’s life (and afterlife) with this quiz.



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Jane Austen’s Stuff, and What We Learn From It

Jane Austen’s Stuff, and What We Learn From It:

scvpubliclib:

In “Jane Austen at Home,” the BBC presenter Lucy Worsley traces the writer’s life through the places and possessions that mattered most to her.



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Saturday, 15 July 2017

ndndoll:Letter from Canada’s Department of Indian Affairs...



ndndoll:

Letter from Canada’s Department of Indian Affairs condemning Native dancing.



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