And what about using a red ink library stamp to make the stamp almost disappear on the title page printed with red and black ink?, mumbled a smiling librarian once and used the library stamp accordingly on this #earlymodern#Schreibkalender.
1 - England Today by the Portuguese Historian Oliveira Martins (a limited edition), a collection of travel letters about England (London, mostly?) originally published in a newspaper from Brasil in 1892, which I'm most curious about.
2 - A Portuguese translation of Jane Eyre
3 - The Halloween Tree by Bradbury translated as The Sacred Tree part of the #ColecçãoArgonauta that was published in Portugal more or less as a similar collection as #ColecçãoVampiro but for science fiction works
4 - Two volumes titled Facts, Persons, and Books. A collection of previously published (1953 - 1961) articles about literary genres, authors, language, translation, and other book related subjects
5 - A manual that teaches the process of bookbinding
Just have to vent for a second, because at my #library we preordered the new #taylorswift album a couple months back, and upon release day we were told it's backordered. What is even the fucking point of preordering?
B'Nai Brith has pressurized #Toronto Public #Library to remove Palestinian Professor, Refaat Alareer's poem, "If I Must Die" on account of a twisted, disingenuous accusation of anti-semitism. The poem has been praised around the world & translated into numerous languages. It speaks of hope & love amidst grief & tragedy. A cynical attempt by a pro-Israel lobby group to hide the fact Israeli forces murdered the beloved teacher in #Gaza amidst the #genocide.
"On February 13, 1919, a reader in Colorado checked out Ivanhoe, Walter Scott’s historical romance novel, from the Fort Collins Public #Library and Free Reading Room.
"A few months ago, the book was finally returned to the library—now named the Poudre River Public Library District—105 years after its due date.
“It came to us from an unnamed woman who [got it from] from her brother, who found it in their mom’s belongings in Kansas,”
Internet Archive Files Final Brief in Publishers Lawsuit
“Resolving this should be easy—just sell ebooks to libraries so we can own, preserve and lend them to one person at a time. This is a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.”
…The bill in CT, pending before an #education cmte, is 1 of a raft of measures advancing nationwide that seek to do things like prohibit #BookBans or forbid the #harassment of school & public librarians…. Legislators in 22 mostly blue states have proposed 57 such bills so far this year, & 2 have become #law….
But the #library-friendly measures are being outpaced by bills in mostly #RedStates that aim to restrict which #books#libraries can offer & #threaten#librarians w/ #prison or thousands in #fines for handing out “obscene” or “harmful” titles. At least 27 states are considering 100 such bills this year, 3 of which have become #law…. That adds to nearly a dozen similar measures enacted over the last 3 yrs across 10 states.
It’s striking that in the name of ‘protecting the children,’ someone would threaten to blow up a library at a time they would reasonably assume it was full of children.
Tells you a lot about the kinds of people banning books.
New at my Patreon... I love a good library. I don't just write in them, but also give travel writing talks to the public in them. This is how that works:
A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.
With Google search results having been awful for some time now, I have to assume that Google Scholar results are also less satisfactory.
While I'm old enough to have been in undergrad before the WWW, I wasn't in grad school before the 21st c. For those of you old enough, how were you doing literature review of journal articles back in ye olde days? @academicchatter#Science#AcademicChatter#Library
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB / ONF) has shut down its #library and layed-off personnel. A petition is circulating to request a reversal of these moves https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-cuts-to-the-nfb-library --> Please sign it and help circulate it. The library was a valuable resource to film-makers, students, historians, and many others.
Can anyone recommend some things to read about how people (in any culture) used to find information among manuscript miscellanies when those miscellanies didn’t have tables of contents? Anything in English, French, #Armenian, or Turkish would work. @histodons@medievodons@librarians#manuscripts
One of the amazing things about working with collections at #LambethPalaceLibrary is that you can take yourself up to the stores to see a figure featured in a volume.
In this case it is the decoration featuring Grosseteste in our MS522 described in Dennis Duncan's Ind x, A History of the.