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/There's a lovely vineyard in St. Peter's Abbey in the heart of Ghent, Belgium. For short time, there's a library right in the middle of it. Browse the stacks under natural sunlight and buy or borrow a book. Link |...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/19/open-air-library-in-a-vineyard/Your town lacks space for a library? Try this virtual solution by Project Ingeborg in Klagenfurt, Austria: An initiative called Project Ingeborg has placed 70 stickers equipped with QR codes and NFC chips in various l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/11/town-turns-itself-into-a-virtual-library/Would you install a tiny library outside of yo... ...e Free Library Project, which aims to create more libraries than even Andrew Carnegie funded -that's a whoppi... ...t's certainly possible. So far they have over 200 libraries installed in over 20 countries. In fact, I happen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/24/the-little-library-project/You already smell like a library. Now, thanks to the coffee company Intelligensia Coffee, you can taste a librarian without getting slapped: The Librarian's Blend is named for that person who always told you to keep q...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/librarian-flavored-coffee/
