November 2010
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September 2010
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July 2010
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Floating Schools and Libraries in Bangladesh |... →
(via librarianista)
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June 2010
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May 2010
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The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time →
awritersruminations: libraryland: jerryfosterpdn: A list compiled by Daniel S. Burt, a PhD in Literature and for nine years the dean of Wesleyan University Wouldn’t it be great to read all of these? I think that might be my major goal in life!
May 22nd
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“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the...”
– Jackie Kennedy (via mybookcafe)
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“A very short examination of a library is sufficient to enable one to describe...”
– Author Unknown (via mybookcafe)
May 5th
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May 4th
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May 3rd
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April 2010
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Alec Baldwin Purchases Bookmobile, for Private Use →
austinkleon: So awesome. I loved the Bookmobile… For decades, the Massapequa Library Bookmobile would roll around the Long Island town, spreading literacy and joy, until it broke down last summer, on account of being a 48-year-old trailer long weighed down by books and small children, who are known to jump up and down in excitement. (Bookmobiles are less common than in bygone days of...
Apr 18th
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Apr 2nd
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March 2010
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Mar 29th
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Another reason why closing libraries would be a... →
(via camillereads)
Mar 28th
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“Dewey wasn’t special because he did something extraordinary but because he was...”
– Vicki Myron, “Dewey” (via symbolinmydriveway)
Mar 28th
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Mar 2nd
Author Barry Hannah dies at 67 in Mississippi →
skybarn: Oh no. Great writer. Airships is one of the greatest short story collections in American Lit.
Mar 2nd
Mar 2nd
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Mar 2nd
Losing my will to staple
Guy: So I was in the bathroom and heard stapling noises. Then I heard a flush. Then a whoosh of air. Then I saw a man with your stapler.
Me: Oooookay.
Guy: What are you going to do about this?! You need to find him and arrest him! He committed a crime!
Me: I'm not going to follow a person into the bathroom.
Guy: IT'S YOUR JOB! YOU FAIL AT YOUR JOB! THIS MAN NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE!
Mar 2nd
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“Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via quotewhore) (via inmyskin) (via togetlost) “I think and think and think, I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.” (via thesquink) (via libraryland)
Mar 2nd
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February 2010
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“I cannot live without books.”
– Thomas Jefferson 
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January 2010
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December 2009
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“Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read.”
– Isaiah 34:16
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November 2009
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