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Libraries in Empty Jails, Churches, Shipping Containers and More
Each week Miss Kathleen provides links to a variety of stories about libraries, authors, and books. If there’s something noteworthy going on in your local library, leave us a comment! We all saw the...
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A Professional Assessment of Twilight Sparkle as a Librarian
In “The Return of Harmony,” the demon Discord threatens to destroy Equestria. Twilight Sparkle’s friends are picked off one by one, until she alone is left to find a means to defeat him. She...
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For Sale: Check Out Card Signed by Elvis Presley
Some Neatoramanauts may be old enough to know what this is. It’s a checkout card for a library book, used in the days when library circulation was handled by bear skins and stone knives instead of...
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8 Lovely Libraries in Australia and New Zealand
We’ve covered Europe’s, Asia’s, Africa’s, North America’s and South America’s most beautiful libraries; now it’s time to take a look at Australia and, while it isn’t technically a part of the...
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At the Libraries: The Wire’s Victorian-Literature Leanings
Each week Miss Kathleen provides links to a variety of stories about libraries, authors, and books. If there’s something noteworthy going on in your local library, leave us a comment! So, The Wire....
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At the Libraries: Reading is Good for You
Each week Miss Kathleen provides links to a variety of stories about libraries, authors, and books. If there’s something noteworthy going on in your local library, leave us a comment! Awesome new...
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At the Libraries: Most Referenced Song in Literature
Take a quick guess, and then click through and see if you are right — what is the number one most referenced song in literature? I didn’t get it, but surely one of you will? * Move to New York to...
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The Song of the Library Staff, 1906
Somehow this gem has escaped my attention until now. In 1906, Sam Walter Foss, a librarian in Somerville, Massachusetts, published a series of funny poems about the variously happy and beleaguered...
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The 10 Most Beautiful Libraries in the United States
We already looked at libraries in all the major continents, but there were so many great ones in the United States that the article featuring libraries in North America had to leave many beautiful...
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The Wonderful World of Interlibrary Loan
Over at Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow sings the praises of interlibrary loan: Denizens of BushcraftUK discuss Willie Sundqvist’s “Swedish Carving Techniques,” a rare tome that goes for £100 and more....
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