Do You Want To Be A Librarian?
(A film from 1947.)
April 16, 2012
March 23, 2012
January 19, 2012
December 23, 2011
Volunteers saving books from fire at the Egyptian Scientific Institute.
During conflicts between some Egyptian protests, the Egyptian Scientific Institute which established in 1798 by Napoleon Bonaparte was burned. The Egyptian Scientific Institute is the oldest scientific institute in Egypt and Middle East at all. It has the most rich and rare library in Egypt.
To read more about it, and to see more pictures, click here.
December 8, 2011
September 28, 2011
August 17, 2011
"Without the public libraries, serious writers, unfashionable serious writers like me, really wouldn’t have a chance."
— May Sarton (via theparisreview)
(via npr)
June 8, 2011
The Fruits Of My Labor: Columbia Libraries Exhibition for the 1968 Civil Rights Retrospective.
Also, I’m the last one mentioned, but by God it’s going on my résumé.
