May 2013
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WatchWelcome to Librii, a digitally-enhanced, community-based, revenue-generating library on the frontiers of broadband connectivity.
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Libraries Changed My Life →
libraryjournal:
thelifeguardlibrarian:
Real life accounts from library patrons whose lives have been changed for the better by libraries.
Everyone, share the impact libraries and librarians have had on your lives—ALL submissions are welcome and encouraged. Take a moment and tell your story!
Important!
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“Social media is not going away. As new platforms emerge, libraries will need to...”
– Social Media: Libraries Are Posting, but Is Anyone Listening?
This is about Facebook but its still very good.
(via libraryjournal)
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“If you’re trying to raise a reader, you need your library. It’s too expensive...”
– Parents, Children, Libraries, and Reading: Select quotes from parents and library staff (via pewinternet)
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“To borrow a medical analogy, reference librarians diagnose and treat information...”
– Wikipedia (via librarianista)
April 2013
21 posts
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CILIP Hosts Directory - Google Maps →
thegloballibrarian:
An international couchsurfing platform for librarians! - check out the Library Hosts Directory, a great new initiative by @CILIP_ILIG and @CILIPCDG! sign up for being a host at http://ow.ly/kmSas. guide for potential hosts: http://ow.ly/kmSxF.
Found through IFLA New Professionals Special Interests Group’s Facebook page here.
Very good idea! :-)
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“Libraries — Note: Tumblr is rife with libraries. They’re everywhere. I’ve...”
– The Millions : Tumblr Index: Your Guide to Artistic and Literary Tumblrs, Part III
Well, basically. (Thanks, Millions!)
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Librarian Fact #911
librarianfacts:
A librarian’s ideal vacation includes travelling abroad and visiting foreign libraries.
Guilty as charged! I love to visit libraries - even on my holidays! :-)
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javeliner:
think about the concept of a library. that’s one thing that humanity didn’t fuck up. we did a good thing when we made libraries
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“I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that...”
– Wisława Szymborska (via wordpainting)
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March 2013
9 posts
Women of Library History dot tumblr dot com →
thelifeguardlibrarian:
mydaguerreotypelibrarian:
This exists!
Wonderful!
THIS IS WONDERFUL.
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“Being a librarian means I have the freedom to be interested in anything and...”
– I want to be Barbara Fister’s best friend (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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“Librarianship is not a set of skills to be learned, or a set of degrees to be...”
– R. David Lankes, Beyond the Bullet Points: Rock Stars (via johnxlibris)
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February 2013
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25 Writers on the Importance of Libraries →
thelibrarybug:
A great response to yesterday’s post on the Terry Deary piece.
Toni Morrison
“Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission. No committee decides who may enter, no crisis of body or spirit must accompany the entrant. No tuition...
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