You never know what piece of flotsam will call to life a long-slumbering memory. If you view these pictures of Libraries of the Rich and Famous and scroll down to the last one, you’ll learn that the library depicted is enormous (70,000 books worth $4 million) and belongs to noted academic Richard Macksey. Many years [...]
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Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, we have a Flickr set titled Harbor Views, including pictures of the Harbor islands and light houses. I found the images of the hospital and other buildings on Long Island, as well as pictures of the construction of the bridge to that island, to be fascinating. The island is [...] Courtesy of MIT, a Flickr collection of photos of Boston-That-Was. I like this one, with all the neon signs. From Cooked Books: a menu from a 1975 dinner honoring Julia Child and James Beard. Very appropriate since tonight I’m cooking a Julia recipe. And did you know that that today marks the 50th anniversary of Rio Bravo? First up, a cool story about how Library of Congress archivists ‘crowdsourced’ an image of downtown Brockton to obtain more information about the picture. Apparently, the Library’s flickr set contains all sorts of New England images in need of metadata. For more photographic goodness, see Google’s collection of pictures from Life magazine, many previously unreleased [...] I thought this was very cool: the Thomas Crane Library in Quincy makes this list of America’s 10 Coolest Public Libraries. I trust that you all patronize your local library, where ever that may be. Which it’s some more links for you, this time library-related. UCSD has some very cool digital collections. My favorites: a collection of posters from the Spanish Civil War, a photojournalism exhibit – again from the Spanish Civil War, and The Advertising Artwork of Dr. Seuss. Awesome. The British Library has an online gallery, allowing you [...] Consider this an update of earlier post, concerning libraries on Flickr. Now you can find the Smithsonian there as well. See also: The Commons. (lva) The New York Public Library also has digital archives online. Some of my favorite galleries available here include: Dust Jackets from American and European books, 1926-1947. When I was kid, books with dust jackets like these could still be pretty easily found, in library stacks or in your grandparent’s house. Some now reside on my [...] I’ve been meaning to post these Flickr links for a while… The Boston Public Library’s collection on Flickr. Includes this awesome set of posters for long-vanished Boston breweries and this set of war posters. Great stuff to dig through. The Library of Congress on Flickr. Reaalll easy to get lost in there. Here we have [...] Today in the New York Times: an article and slideshow on the athenaeums – private libraries – of New England, complete with pronunciation guide for the local dialect: “(A note to those who visit: While athenaeum is commonly pronounced ath-eh-NEE-um, in New England ath-eh-NAY-um is acceptable.)” Last semester I had occasion to visit the Salem [...] So you remember Ghostbusters right? Specifically, you remember the opening where Bill Murray and co. confront a ghost in the library? Well you can go over to the Britannnica Blog to see the first part of a list of haunted libraries. I’m waiting for part two, to see if any Massachusetts libraries are included. In one of those weird coincidences life occasionally puts in your path, shortly after starting my second semester of library school and moving into an apartment with a real kitchen in which to cook, I come across Cooked Books, Rebecca Federman’s explorations of the New York Public Library’s culinary holdings. Yes, recipes are posted, both [...] Coming next weekend – the Annual Fall Book Sale at the Thomas Crane library. Because now that I’ve culled the collection, fitted ‘em all in the new digs, and have precious little time for (pleasure) reading, it stands to reason that I need a dozen or so new titles. Fortunately for me at $0.50 a [...] So Friday night’s wine tasting at the Crane was quite nice and while sipping away in the Richardson building I even discovered a couple of white wines I liked. Plus there were prizes. Not for me of course: everybody is lucky and unlucky in their own peculiar way (such as cards and/or love as the [...] |
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