For many college students, this is a stressful tim... ...ng, Cornell University laid sod inside two of its libraries . Gilad Meron, a recent graduate, conceived and ex... ...year lawns were placed in both the Mann and Olin libraries , as well as three other locations around campus,... ...d Tancheva agree, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/20/Cornell-University-Puts-Lawns-inside-Its-Libraries/Grace Light, a resident of Hawaii, loves air plants. She's found the perfect home for them in one of her many old library card catalog cabinets. It's now a "botanical cabinet of curiosities."Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/17/Old-Card-Catalog-Cabinet-Now-Used-as-a-Planter/Over at Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow sings the prais... ...read, courtesy of the Seattle Public Library. Go libraries !What is he talking about? In the United States, i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/16/The-Wonderful-World-of-Interlibrary-Loan/Just file me under 641.8 (or TX 951, if you prefer). Marni, an Apartment Therapy reader, found an old card catalog cabinet with waist-high retractable shelves. It was perfect for intoxicating research.Link -via Erica Mag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/03/Card-Catalog-Cabinet-Now-a-Liquor-Cabinet/A few months ago, a teenager approached the re... ...ne so young!Over the past two decades, many large libraries have disposed of their card catalog cabinets. Due...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/11/Old-Card-Catalog-Cabinets-Now-Used-for-Sharing-Gifts/Somehow this gem has escaped my attention until now. In 1906, Sam Walter Foss, a librarian in Somerville, Massachusetts, published a series of funny poems about the variously happy and beleaguered staff of a public libra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/23/The-Song-of-the-Library-Staff-1906/Some Neatoramanauts may be old enough to know what this is. It's a checkout card for a library book, used in the days when library circulation was handled by bear skins and stone knives instead of computers.In 1948, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/15/For-Sale-Check-Out-Card-Signed-by-Elvis-Presley/In “The Return of Harmony,” the demon... ...sh Discord.It's a great metaphor for the value of libraries and librarians in an information age. The hero of... ...her in that capacity.OrganizationTwilight’s libraries are profoundly disorganized. This is apparent in... ...classification scheme o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/14/A-Professional-Assessment-of-Twilight-Sparkle-as-a-Librarian/Flickr user Enokson found a trove of old posters at his school library in Canada. Do you think Dan the librarian is trying to rescue the young lady? There's a story here, but I don't think it's straightforward. L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/20/vintage-library-posters-from-the-60s/
