Gosh, summer has gotten away from me. Forgive me for my negligent posting schedule. Anyway, here are a few things I stumbled across in my library-life that you might find fun and interesting: First up, a new digital collection from Duke University Libraries: AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials. Described as “a digital […]
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Awful Library Books
What may not belong in a library any longer, could have a home on my bookshelf. These books are great, in an awful way, as the bloggers so rightly describe. Librarians, send them my way!
Facebook Manners and You
If you’ve ever enjoyed ye olde health and hygiene films, you’ll enjoy this, with a more modern twist.
Wedding Fashion
Readers of this site might enjoy this exhibit from the Victoria and Albert Museum, Wedding Fashion. Some beautiful images here! And sorted by “fashion period,” so you can read about wedding advice from the past then go look up some pictures, to get a well-rounded experience.
Mr. America
There’s a new biography out, by Mark Adams, about one of my favorite authors, Bernarr Macfadden. It’s called How Muscular Millionaire Bernarr Macfadden Transformed the Nation Through Sex, Salad, and the Ultimate Starvation Diet. The Post had a review today – I haven’t read the book yet but plan to pick up a copy!
Birds and the Bees Poll
My brother’s site iBrattleboro.com has a fun poll this week: I learned the most about ‘the birds and the bees’ from… My response was “books” of course. Yours?
Birthday Chats with Tomorrow’s Man – a little family history
cover Originally uploaded by Miss Abigail. I recently had the pleasure of hearing from a woman named Robin, the granddaughter of Louis Le Claire Jones, author of the 1940 Birthday Chats with Tomorrow’s Man. She had done a Google search after finding a photocopy of her grandfather’s book and stumbled across this site. She writes […]
New York Public Library Event of Interest
Looks like this NYPL event could be fun for those interested in vintage craft books (of which I have a few). Too bad I have to work (and live 4 hours away)!
Cataloging in the New Year
I’ve been spending the last few weeks adding more of my many, many books to my LibraryThing catalog. I’m up to over 550! Woohoo! About halfway there! (This is a slooow, manual process, since most of my books don’t have ISBNs or LCCNs I can’t take advantage of their auto-import function.) My book database originally […]
Merry Christmas!
[Sorry for the delayed post, I tried to put this up Christmas eve but blogger wasn’t cooperating, arg] I picked up a few books at a used bookshop on the Eastern shore of Maryland in early December, and thought I would share a little from two of them on this lovely Christmas Eve. The image […]