Ok so I just got around to seeing Bill Cunningham New York and I couldn’t stop thinking about his collection. He needs an archivist. And I need to see this digital collection.
The last story is about Stefan Cover, curatorial assistant of the ant collection at Harvard University.
The Scripps Marine Animal Libraries - Phil Hastings sorts, identifies, preserves and studies a collection of 2 million fish. AH-mazing.
(via Millions of Fishes: The Ultimate Marine Library | Wired Science | Wired.com)
Oh no. Instead of seeing the same boring Flickr Commons Powerpoint at every conference, now we’ll all get motion sickness.
(Source: caropinto, via librarianista)
Harriet Shelley’s suicide note. She drowned herself two years after Percey ran away with a then 16-year-old Mary Goodwin (later Shelley).
Transcript: http://shelleysghost.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/harriet-shelleys-suicide-letter#Transcript
It’s A Book - By Lane Smith (by MacmillanChildrens)
The Biodiversity Heritage Library has digitized Charles Darwin’s annotated library. This annotation in The Natural history of Mammals from Paraguay compares his son to some animal (I think a monkey):
Text: “ if he is caught, he begins immediately, for fear of punishment to scream. If he can devour his prey, unseen, he is afterwards so innocent and unafraid, as if nothing happened.”
Annotation: “Lenny did this. Emma often perceived he had been on dining room on the table & found it so.”
This is the kind of thing I love about libraries.
Back Issues is the blog from Jon Michaud and Erin Overby, keepers of the New Yorker’s library. They have the. best. job.
“On June 16, 1954, the fiftieth anniversary of the day on which the novel takes place, the writers Flann O’Brien (née Brian O’Nolan), Patrick Kavanagh, and Anthony Cronin participated in a pilgrimage to the Martello Tower in Sandycove, where the opening of the novel is set.”
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues#ixzz1PXbX703s
Maybe I should be an archivist.
(via New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary’s Papers - NYTimes.com)
First Biblion and now this. Really beautifully done.
Treasures Smartphone App from the British Library (by britishlibrary)
A brand is really your reputation. What are you “known” for? What are you saying in public (and I am including all social media here)? What have you said in a meeting or a conference? Back in the day, most librarians were probably just about the paper resume. Now your brand is a sum total of everything about you from your activity in social media, list serves, blogs all the way to what you say in meetings, conferences, publications, etc. The line of your personal and professional reputation is blurry and if you aren’t actively aware of your “brand” or image out in library land, you could be out of luck in jobs and interviews.
(Source: twitter.com, via )
Greg’s friend from Pratt did did this illustration for a book review of The Information - a book I am reading and loving.
(Source: keystonematt.wordpress.com)
