libraries in pop culture

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Tue, 07 May 2013 10:58:42 -0700

Info-binging by Indexed

libraryjournal: librarianpirate: Found while weeding. I think...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:00:05 -0700

librarianpirate:

Found while weeding. I think there are a few of us here in the tumblarian community who can make this our own.

This is…amazing.

“Jill’s excited about entering her basset hound, Fletcher, in the big dog show, so she and her best friend, Gwen, go to the library to learn about training dogs. But they’re puzzled and surprised to find that many pictures are cut out of the special dog books they’ve borrowed. Who would want to destroy library books? Luckily there’s strange clue on one page and that’s enough to get super sleuths started on their search. The books are due back soon and Jill and Gwen don’t want to be blamed for ruining them. But someone is to blame. Will they find the person in time?”

fancylibrarian: “When you have these two important...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:00:29 -0700

fancylibrarian:

“When you have these two important qualifications - love for books and love for people - you may well consider the vocation of a librarian, a vocation that gives full enjoyment to the librarian and radiates it to the public.” - [x]

:)

libraryadvocates: timetravelanddonuts: Happy National Library...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:28:07 -0700

libraryadvocates:

timetravelanddonuts:

Happy National Library Workers Day to all my fellow library workers!

And don’t let jerks like Moe get you down either.

megzam: rachelfershleiser: Books are just about the...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:28:57 -0700

megzam:

rachelfershleiser:

Books are just about the Librarian’s most favorite thing in the entire world. Reading them can take you on exciting adventures in far-off lands, introduce you to new friends and cultures, and let you discover poetry, classic literature, science fiction and much more. (via LEGO.com Minifigures : Bios - Series 10 - Librarian)

The new LEGO librarian minifig. Appreciate the Oranges and Peaches reference.

librarean: Lego Librarian, everybody. Lego Librarian.

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:26:55 -0700

librarean:

Lego Librarian, everybody. Lego Librarian.

blackjackaught: Maybe the most influential page I ever read,...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:24:30 -0700

blackjackaught:

Maybe the most influential page I ever read, from Roald Dahl’s Matilda, with illustrations by Quentin Blake.

fsgbookkeeping: She blinded me with library science.

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:42:38 -0700

fsgbookkeeping:

She blinded me with library science.

cloudunbound: In our latest author interview (see also Maureen...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:27:56 -0700

cloudunbound:

In our latest author interview (see also Maureen Roberts’s Q&A with Kelly Hunter), Stephanie Anderson, head of readers’ advisory at Darien Library, chatted with Jessica Hagy, who wrote and illustrated the just-released effervescent self-help manual How To Be Interesting (Workman Publishing).

Many know Hagy for her Webby Award-winning blog, Indexed. We like her pro-librarianness, yes, we do. Dig her specially made illustration for this interview, above.

SA: Which pieces of your advice do you think would be best for librarians? Where do we start?

JH: Librarians (as a whole, please don’t take offense at the generalization) are curious by nature. They dig and poke and look into things—curiosity is practically a pre-req for the job. And when curiosity is really strong, it forces us to push past all sorts of things that stand between us and our desire to find out more. Librarians let their curiosity guide them, and we’d all be more interesting if we followed their examples.

SA: I see on page 139 there’s a shout-out to librarians! Any libraries or librarians you love?

JH: I spent a lot of time in Taylor Library (now just called the Cuyahoga Falls Ohio Public Library) in middle school. A posse of subversive librarians (revolutionary hearts under wooly cardigans) encouraged me to read books above my grade level, like all the Vonnegut ever published, tons of Updike, Cheever (and Naked Lunch!), textbooks on art history and anthropology, and amazing anthologies of short stories and essays on everything from feminism to uranium mining. I will always be grateful that they didn’t censor what I checked out, and actually encouraged me to delve even further into topics other adults would try to shield me from.

SA: “Set your own boundaries” (226-7) is great advice that’s hard to follow. How do you do this for yourself?

JH: When things bother us and we cope or try to accept them, they don’t stop bothering us—we just get better at ignoring the itchy, achy, awkward feeling in the back of our minds. It took me a long time to realize that I didn’t have to meet annoying people for happy hours, or take on client work that made me feel like a shill, or sit behind a desk when I could be wandering and jotting down notes from anywhere—and merely realizing that allowed me to do the things I actually WANTED to do. Taking small steps away from tedium leads quickly to fun.

SA: What did you do today to be interesting?

JH: Today I am sorting through the stack of business cards I collected yesterday at a conference, and I am doing my best to be a serendipitous force for good between a lot of strangers—introducing people to each other who would otherwise never meet. Email is an spectacularly overlooked tool for making friendships and partnerships happen. I know this for a fact, because it’s how my husband introduced himself to me (before he was my husband, of course).

"I do things like get in a taxi and say, ‘The library, and step on it.’"

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:00:07 -0700

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, ‘The library, and step on it.’”

- David Foster Wallace (via marrymesallyanne)

healthscireflib: thatblondelibrarian: Best bookmarks I’ve ever...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:36:18 -0700

healthscireflib:

thatblondelibrarian:

Best bookmarks I’ve ever seen, nbd (Taken with Instagram)

DO WANT.

Aubrey Plaza ‏@evilhag “I HATE LIBRARIES but I love...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:59:06 -0700

Aubrey Plaza ‏@evilhag “I HATE LIBRARIES but I love #Office365 and #SkyDrive because I get to be a mean librarian. skydrives are cool. bye. http://youtu.be/4bBmActSPro”

Aubrey Plaza plays a mean librarian in Microsoft’s new Office365 videos

catagator: >:D

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:00:24 -0700

catagator:

>:D

Library scene from Bob’s Burgers

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 11:00:06 -0800

Library scene from Bob’s Burgers

myjetpack: A book of my cartoons will be out in late April.

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 17:53:49 -0800

myjetpack:

A book of my cartoons will be out in late April.

thepinakes: Sometimes in my weeding adventures I come across an...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:04:01 -0800

thepinakes:

Sometimes in my weeding adventures I come across an item with no modern relevance, no practical research usefulness, and no compelling reason to keep — but I cannot possibly get rid of. This is one of those items.

The Children’s Book on How to Use Books and Libraries, Revised Edition, 1961.

Savor the illustrations. The female librarian’s 1961 bob! The male librarian fireplace storytime! The old man and the kid both walking out of the library with a book in hand! The talking misshelved book!

librarygoddess: I am a librarian!

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:00:22 -0800

librarygoddess:

I am a librarian!

robotpancreasattack: oh yes, it’s a three pack!

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:46:54 -0800

robotpancreasattack:

oh yes, it’s a three pack!

Oreo Library Whisper Fight commercial

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:34:39 -0800

Oreo Library Whisper Fight commercial

unlibrarian: The library in “The Breakfast Club” is my...

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:00:04 -0800

unlibrarian:

The library in “The Breakfast Club” is my favourite. (via 16 Great Library Scenes in Film)