(Video Link) The Conjuring Arts Resource Center on Manhattan has a 12,000-volume library of books about performance magic, including some rare items dating back to the Fifteenth Century: The library also maintains...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/05/a-visit-to-new-york-citys-library-of-magic/Judy Berman of Flavorwire rounded up photograp... ...of Flavorwire rounded up photographs of luxurious libraries in the homes of celebrities, such as Diane Keaton...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/11/celebrity-home-libraries/(Video Link) Real librarians sometimes silently cringe at the shockingly-poor reference interviews conducted by librarians on television and in the movies. But Andy Priestner, head business librarian at Cambridge Uni...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/05/university-librarian-blasts-librarian-depicted-in-star-wars/Avi Steinberg, a former prison librarian, has written a memoir about his experience. In it, he recounted the books that were the most popular among prisoners, and why: The prisoners' book choices are suggestive: Anne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/29/what-are-the-most-popular-books-in-a-prison-library/British Telecom has been selling off public phone booths in the UK. Some have been converted to public toilets, showers, or art installations. The village of Westbury-sub-Mendip turned one into a 24-hour public library...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/22/phone-box-turned-into-public-library/Perfumer Christopher Brosius has produced a perfume that's supposed to make you smell like a library. It's called "In the Library." Link via Marginal Revolution...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/19/perfume-that-makes-you-smell-like-a-library/This library reference desk at the University of Delft (Netherlands) is made of recycled books. There are three more pictures at the link. Link via The Presurfer | Photo: Recyclart...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/19/library-reference-desk-made-of-recycled-books/This is a photograph of what is alleged to be the first American bookmobile. It was built in 1905 by the public library of Washington County, Maryland. Mary Titcomb, the librarian responsible for its creation, describe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/the-first-bookmobile-in-the-united-states/(YouTube Link) First, men covered with sheets, one by one, entered the reading room at the New York Public Library and engaged in normal library patron activities. People noticed, and the dramatic tension began to bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/18/improv-everywhere-ghostbusters-in-the-nyc-public-library/One of the duties of the Library of Congress (US) is to archive published works. In order to carry out this task in the Web 2.0 world, the agency will begin archiving every tweet ever publicly published on Twitter: T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/15/library-of-congress-to-archive-every-tweet-ever-tweeted/
