The folks at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University have a new digital collection on view. Women's Travels Diaries features over 100 diaries written by British and American women who documented their travels to places around the globe, including India, the West Indies, countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as around the United States.The collection is comprised mostly of the diaries of Mary McCornack Thompson, a Presbyterian missionary and teacher with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in South Africa and Mary McMillan, a United Methodist missionary and...
book patrol TV: episode 2
Welcome to the second episode of book patrol TV. A hour-long feast of book goodness.This episode includes an amazing chair-based reading performance piece by Héloise Bourgeois, talks by Robert Darton and Chip Kidd, a live version of My Morning Jacket singing Librarian, Snoop Dog talking about his new 'smoking' book, a little clip from The Dead Poets Society, an animation of the Billy Collins poem Forgetfulness and a short video by archivist Harrison Wick, of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Libraries, on the Benefits of Digitizing Rare Books.Enjoy. 4:05 Les 7 doigts de la main / The 7 Fingers -...
A book from Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House Library grows up
It is the largest, most famous and many believe the most beautiful dollhouse in the world. It was conceived as a gift for Queen Mary by her cousin Princess Marie Louise and built under the supervision of Edwin Lutyens, who at the time wore the crown as Britain's most famous architect. The library Aside from the toilets that flush, the working elevators and the six working automobiles that live in the garage the dollhouse features a 171-volume library of short works, some written exclusively for the dollhouse, by some of the leading writers of the day including Sir Arthur Conan...
Introducing LiLi – A Library Cruiser
Right on the heels of National Bookmobile Day comes the launch of the newest library liaison.Meet LiLi – Library Live and On Tour - a new initiative by the Fraser Valley Regional Library in British Columbia. Touted as the first of its kind in the world:Library Live and On Tour will shatter preconceptions about libraries, library services and librarians. Library Live and On Tour will deliver services to people in our communities who do not know about our libraries or have some obstacle to visiting them. Unlike ‘bookmobiles’, Library Live & On Tour will stress service, access to information and...
The Kids are Alright: 4th-Graders in Detroit Take Library Matters Into Their Own Hands
Rashard Baker gets some book suggestions from U-M lecturer Melanie Manos outside the closed Richard branch of the Detroit Public Library on Thursday. An outdoor library offered something interesting for him to read during spring break. / MANDI WRIGHT/Detroit Free PressBack in December The Detroit Public Library Commission voted to close four branches.One way to get books back into a library-deprived community is to take matters into your own hands. And that is exactly what a class of fourth-graders at Marcus Garvey Academy in Detroit did when they collaborated with Melanie Manos, a lecturer at University of Michigan who came...