For the Asking

“…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:44:24 -0400

“…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. “

mlarents: laura-in-libraryland: bookpatrol: Library...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:09:00 -0400

mlarents:

laura-in-libraryland:

bookpatrol:

Library Infographics: 1930’s style

I LOVE THESE!!

Waaaant.

thevictorianlady: Snapshots of Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:06:29 -0400

thevictorianlady:

Snapshots of Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot taken by Lady Ottoline Morrell at her home, Garsington.

huntingtonlibrary: Over the weekend, we opened “Useful Hours:...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:14:05 -0400

huntingtonlibrary:

Over the weekend, we opened “Useful Hours: Needlework and Painted Textiles from Southern California Collections” in the Chandler Wing of the Scott Galleries. Here’s a sampling of samplers and such that you can find on view through Sept. 2.

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Elizabeth Neil Andrews (1804–1846), Sampler, 1813. Silk on linsey-woolsey, 14 ¾ × 10 ¾ in. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, promised gift of Thomas H. Oxford and Victor Gail.

Elizabeth R. Allen (1792–1816), Memorial to Captain John Allen, 1811. Silk and watercolor on paper, 13 × 14 ½ in. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, promised gift of Thomas H. Oxford and Victor Gail.

Lydia Stockton (1791–1862), Sampler, 1804. Silk and painted paper on linen, 16 ½ ×16 ½ in. Collection of Katharine Pease, Los Angeles.

Ann Gibson (1792–n.d.), Sampler, 1806. Silk and flax on linen. 8 5/16 × 8 5/16 in. Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Gift of Mary Jaene and Jim Edmonds. AC1992.182.11. Photo credit: Museum Associates/LACMA. Licensed by Art Resource, NY.

Elizabeth Fellows (n.d.), Pocketbook, 1776. Wool on linen, cotton, 4 ½ × 8 ⅝ in. Collection of Jonathan and Karin Fielding, Los Angeles.

bookshelfporn: ‘tsundoku’ - the Japanese word for buying books...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:07:27 -0400

bookshelfporn:

‘tsundoku’ - the Japanese word for buying books & not reading them, leaving them to pile up.

thorngwen: Manuscript of “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred...

Wed, 01 May 2013 17:13:51 -0400

thorngwen:

Manuscript of “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen. Rough draft with suggested revisions by Siegfried Sassoon.

Chris Cobb, an artist based in San Francisco, has created an...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:24:18 -0400

Chris Cobb, an artist based in San Francisco, has created an amazing installation in bookshop called Adobe Books- he catalogued every single one of the 20,000 books by color. The project is titled There is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World. They were arranged by hand over a 10 hour period, and he enlisted the help of 16 volunteers. Such beautiful results, they transformed the bookshop overnight.

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“I don’t remember the author or title, but I know it was blue…”

fer1972: Know were you stand: Modern Day Locations blended...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:41:27 -0400

fer1972:

Know were you stand: Modern Day Locations blended with Major Historical Events by Seth Taras

1. The Hindenberg Disaster of May 6, 1937

2. Allied soldiers rushing the beach at Normandy in June 1944

3. The Fall of the Berlin wall in 1989

4. Adolf Hitler touring Paris and standing in front of the Eiffel Tower in 1940

I CAN'T FIND A BOOK A PATRON WANTS THEN FIND IT AFTER THEY LEAVE

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:57:18 -0400

librarianproblems:

Submitted by Kim

Add it to the list of this morning’s shittiness.

pbsthisdayinhistory: April 8, 2013: Holocaust Remembrance Day...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:27:46 -0400

pbsthisdayinhistory:

April 8, 2013: Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah)

Today, Americans commemorate the Holocaust and remember its victims.

Yom Hashoah is Israel’s official day to honor the Jewish Holocaust victims. In 1979, Congress established an annual eight-day remembrance period that begins on the Sunday before Yom Hashoah and ends the following Sunday.

This past weekend, Defiant Requiem, a film about Jewish prisoners at Terezin concentration camp, aired on PBS. In the spring of 1944, a handpicked group of Nazi officers were treated to an unusual performance by inmates in a concentration camp.

What appeared to be a soaring rendition of a choral masterpiece was intended as a subversive condemnation of the Nazis and a desperate message to the outside world. In the face of horrific living conditions, slave labor and the constant threat of deportation to Auschwitz, the Jewish inmates of Terezin concentration camp — artists, musicians, poets and writers — fought back with art and music.

Learn more about the prisoners at the Terezin concentration camp.

Image: Graves of prisoners in Terezin during the World War II

April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:45:00 -0400

April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

Winter kept us warm, covering

Earth in forgetful snow, feeding

A little life with dried tubers.

—T.S. Eliot The Waste Land

A PATRON APPROACHES THE DESK AND SAYS "I NEED A SMALL FAVOR PLEASE"

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 21:45:44 -0500

librarianproblems:

Submitted by Samukelisiwe via Facebook

aka how I spent my afternoon.

end of chapter one

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:19:01 -0500

So finals week is over, and I’m staying up past my bedtime out of choice rather than necessity. What a nice feeling. Following the trend of some of my cohort fellows, I’m making this an ‘end of semester’ post.

I’ve technically been done with my first…

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finding paths to katherine mansfield

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:58:06 -0500

finding paths to katherine mansfield

So, I realize it may appear I’ve abandoned this humble blog. I’ll admit I’ve been neglectful the past couple weeks, but I promise there are a couple substantial posts coming your way. For today, however, we’re going to take a detour into completed…

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In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on...

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:28:00 -0500

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

- John McCrae

in the back room Just a short post this week, folks. I snapped...

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:08:28 -0400

in the back room

Just a short post this week, folks.

I snapped this photo as we were preparing for a…

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what makes a librarian?

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:20:26 -0400

Following the trend of so many of my classmates, I’m posting my ist511 video for this week’s blog. I’ll be the first to say that it’s not as creative and wonderful as some of the others I’ve had the pleasure of watching thus far, but I’m still rather…

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wwnorton: To celebrate the release of Fakes: An Anthology of...

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:58:09 -0400

wwnorton:

To celebrate the release of Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts, we’re posting some of history’s greatest fakes, frauds and flimflams all week long. Today: The Dreadnought Hoax.

In 1910, in an act we can’t condone, a young Virginia Stephen—two years later she’d marry and become Virginia Woolf—and a few of her Bloomsbury friends dressed up as a bunch of “Abyssinians” to get aboard the HMS Dreadnought, the pride of the British Navy. During the prank, organized by Horace de Vere Cole, the Abyssinians repeated the nonsense phrase “bunga bunga” to express pleasure, apparently Abyssian for “Isn’t it lovely?” Virginia is at the far left, sitting, in this photo.

Previously: Huck Finn & the Lost Dauphin

a museum of ideasHeadstone of Matilda Joslyn Gage This past...

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:26:12 -0400

a museum of ideas

Headstone of Matilda Joslyn Gage

This past Saturday I had the opportunity to visit the Matilda…

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social media curation‘The Notificator’ aka the grandfather of...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:49:47 -0400

social media curation

‘The Notificator’ aka the grandfather of Twitter, set the stage for Rotolo’s talk

This past…

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