(Photo: Kurt Wilson/The Missoulan)It was 1917. Miss Ruth Worden, a librarian at the Missoula Public Library in Missoula, Montana, wanted to bring a world of knowledge and literature to lumberjacks at logging camps in her...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/23/The-Boxcar-Library/(Photos: Playoffice)Provided that you have agile librarians, here’s a great idea for a library design.* Playoffice, a design studio in Spain, focuses on objects and spaces for kids. That’s why it stretched a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/13/A-Reading-Net-for-the-Library/(Images: South Wales Evening Post/Lucasfilm)Assuming that Jabba the Hutt survived the Sarlacc’s digestive tract, where could he, given his professional experience, find employment? At a library, of course!Toby Phil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/05/Jabba-the-Hutt-Now-Works-at-a-Library/Bring a hedgehog into the library and frantically ask the clerks where they keep the reverse spell casting books.— Richard McCarthy (@Rich_McCarthy) April 17, 2013 If the staff is well-trained, they’ll refer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/25/Practical-Joke-at-the-Library/(Photo: Bernard Hoffman/Life)Do you love old libraries ? The feel of catalog cards flipping on your finge... ...apabilities that computer technology has given to libraries are important and liberating. But there’s a... ...iberating. But there’s an experience to old librarie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/22/Photos-of-Vintage-Libraries/(Photo: Queens Library)Children’s Librarian Susan Scatena of the Whitestone branch of the public library system of Queens, New York promised her kids something amazing: if the 300 children registered with the summe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/19/Storytime-at-the-Library-Features-a-Real-Alligator/(Photos: Felix Loechner)If you attend the Free University of Berlin, you’ll have to pay tuition despite its name. The school got its name because it was founded in West Berlin during the Cold War, so the name refer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/13/This-Beautiful-Library-in-Berlin-Is-Shaped-Like-a-Human-Brain/I can laugh at John McNamee's comic, but only beca... ...brary anymore.It may be for the best. Some public libraries are building freestanding erotica genre sections...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/05/Working-in-a-Public-Library/This Saturday, over 600 public and school libraries and 1,000 booksellers in the United States are pr... ...reading by celebrating Star Wars Reads Day. Other libraries in Austria, Australia, Germany and Canada are als... ...e two groups.You can find a list of participating libraries...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/03/Star-Wars-Reads-Day-A-Force-for-Literacy/Librarian Shaming is an online confessional for librarians who have fallen from grace. Oh, for shame! And some of them are so racy that I thought it best not to republish them here.Since my library director reads Neatora...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/01/Librarian-Shaming/
