(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/Have you ever read a novel or watched a movie about a fantastic library? Perhaps you'd like to visit the almost unused school library in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Or maybe you'd like to browse through the stacks at the J...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/19/The-12-Best-Fictional-Libraries/[http://vimeo.com/66169135](Video Link)It's a brutal world out in the concrete stacks. Watch these two hard-boiled librarians circulate crime out of library. The Mike and Duane Show re-shot the Beastie Boys' classic musi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/18/Librarians-Recreate-Sabotage-by-the-Beastie-Boys/Depending on your perspective, Chat Travieso's bench says 'library' in either English, Chinese or Spanish. He calls his little library in New York City, which is open to the public, "Word Play." Travieso hopes it will br...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/16/The-Library-Bench/In 1874, Cincinnati, Ohio built a huge main library. This architectural marvel remained in use until 1955. Can you imagine wandering from tier to tier of the stacks in the main hall? Or looking through the stereoscope at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/13/Libraries-Used-to-Look-Like-This/In The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, Douglas Ada... ...s Adams argued that airports are inherently ugly. Libraries are, however, I think, innately beautiful. And so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/06/28/The-Beautiful-Beinecke-Rare-Book-and-Manuscript-Library/
