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Lesbrarians 12 years, 6 months ago“The Public Library Manifesto: why public libraries matter, and how we can save them.” http://bit.ly/ivEtfm
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 6 months agoI have Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk on my computer desk at the moment. I’m still finding it depressing though that I have no lesbian novels to read.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 6 months agoJust finished the Street Philosopher by Matthew Plampin. It’s a historical novel about the Crimean War (between the British, French, Turks and Russians in the 1850s) and it’s absolutely brilliant. It also has a queer element to it, one of the characters is gay-or a ‘sodomite’ as they were called. Gives a vivid description of the persecution faced…[Read more]
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 6 months agoA Man, by Orianna Falacci is the best book I’ve ever read in my whole life
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 6 months agoCurrently on my nightstand: The Complete Sherlock Holmes and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy omnibus.
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i love the HHGTTG so much. “Never did get the hang of Thursdays.”
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i get excited whenever i see the number 42. every. time. and i haven’t even been able to read the whole series (yet)
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it’s okay, the bulldozers aren’t coming until later this month. plenty of time to read it. btw, Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl) wrote the Adams estate approved finale just recently: “And Another Thing.” the first book is still my fave. :) *hugs towel*
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 6 months agoNot currently on my nightstand, but I’m going to assume bookshelves count: Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal. Beautiful beautiful book.
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Have you read This Book is Overdue?
i have not. do tell.
“the public library is a singularly american invention” – really now?
maybe the author means circulating libraries available to the public at large (communities), as opposed to private or subscription models.
I still find it hard to believe that *that* specific idea is originally American, given that we’ve had some form of publishing and knowledge exchange since the days of papyrus. o_O
true, but were the materials available to the people? in certain ancient societies (thinking Egypt here) the scribes had access, and the upper class, if they could read. books were collected/stolen and added to the collection and not allowed to circulate.
that said, i think that the author is being hyperbolic, esp. since there’s no reference for…[Read more]
Seems like the author is thinking of the current conception of public libraries as document repository, educational center and community hub–which is about a hundred years old, give or take. A lot of the pioneers of that movement were American, but not all–there are so many different library models that my job at (Clap Clap) NGO works with…[Read more]
Considering the oldest library in North America wasn’t even USian…it was founded in Mexico by a bishop who kicked out the Jesuits out of town and made their confiscated books available to all readers.
Unfortunately the history of libraries in North America is going to be tied up with the history of colonialization pretty much uniformly, though…[Read more]
it was an interesting day in my mlis class at kent state university (ohio) when we discussed the carnegies. i always thought of andrew carnegie as a philanthropist who donated money for the lovely library i got to grow up in as a child. my fellow students from pennsylvania enlighted us all to his robber baron reality. #conundrum
Melville Dewey used to make women put their bust size on their job applications. Apparently everyone in the history of our field was kinda a dick. :D
I don’t know much about Carnegie, but that makes him sound like Robin Hood.
there is an argument to be made that he exploited his workers, though he was outspoken about worker’s rights.
http://to.pbs.org/bgHprM