Stacks of books are history at Benilde library
…the tall stacks of 5,000 books that towered in the main room last school year are gone. Teachers brought a few into classrooms, but most were donated to schools in Africa. Now the room is filled with tables and chairs where students…
L is for Leo who swallowed some tacks (?!)
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n. the practice of answering a cellphone with a generic “Hello?” as if you didn’t already know exactly who was calling—which is a little like the egg requirement that marketers added to early cake mixes in the 1950s, an antiquated extra step that’s only there to reassure you that it’s an authentic homecooked meal, just like grandma used to make.
He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
Thomas Jefferson (via)
Is it bad that I read this and immediately concluded that Jefferson would have been in favour of filesharing, legal or otherwise?
While interning at the American Library in Paris a few summers ago, I came across this issue of Library Journal from 1950. This is sweet, beautiful proof that we’ve been worried about new media making reading obsolete for oh…ever.
What lovely font we once used! This is a wonderful welcome-back-from-vacation Tumblr present from Darien / Erin Shea.
Heh.
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life:
On this day in LIFE Magazine — August 14, 1939: Busiest Baby
Driven.
I just friended a sociopath on Facebook. We went to high school together and today is his birthday.
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ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of three shop workers wearing aprons]
via the Daguerreian Society, Matthew R. Isenburg Collection
The one standing looks like he’d murder you and bury your body in the basement but I guess the other two look all right.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1q2meqRQK1qa51rdo1_500.jpg)
ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of three shop workers wearing aprons]
The one standing looks like he’d murder you and bury your body in the basement but I guess the other two look all right.
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Women have - there’s no two ways about this - really been shafted by the simple fact that men fancy them,
From April 27th, 1952 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis try to entertain librarians
Well, this is pretty horrifying.
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