Howard Prouty, home on the range at the Margaret Herrick Librarywhere he wrangles and corrals collections.Our friend and colleague, Howard Prouty, of ReadInk books, has had a day job for around twenty-five years, one that I presumed he wished to maintain a low profile about.A private man, he may be uneasy but a recent Oscar®-related newspaper feature discusses itToday, the Omaha World-Herald features a high profile feature about Howard and his job as acquisitions archivist at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library.As the story notes, "Prouty spends lots of time in dead people's homes, attics,...
Hello, my name is…Help for the linguistically challenged
Aleksandr Isayevich SolzhenitsynGrowing up in Brooklyn in the 1960's has had its advantages for sure but one of the major side effects are the linguistic challenges one faces as they head into the world with a Brooklyn accent. There remain some author's names to this day I have trouble pronouncing.Enter TeachingBooks.com's Author Pronunciation Guide.Here you can can listen to brief recordings of authors and illustrators introducing themselves. Each begins with "Hello my name is..." There are hundreds of author's and illustrators in the database.In addition to learning "correct pronunciations of hard-to-pronounce names" one also gets to hear the authors reveal...
Pancho Villa Rides Again Thanks To Mexican Archives.
General Pancho Villa in Mexico City in 1914.(Courtesy of Casasola Archives.)"Riding with Pancho Villa," a new photography exhibit, has just opened in Abilene, Texas, celebrating the centennial of the Mexican Revolution, and held in conjunction with events honoring the founding of the Republic of Texas (1836-46).Hosting the events is Frontier Texas!, a nearly seven-acre Disneyland-meets-the-Wild-West historical theme park of sorts, designed to revive "the Old West with the help of state-of-the-art technology." A museum in which visitors can get up close and personal, virtually anyway, with the "people who played out their lives on the Texas frontier." Frontier Texas's "cutting-edge...
Book Letters
Here's some cool book love out of the Stockholm design firm Byggstudio.An Alphabet:and a vectorized font:Thanks to Swissmiss for the lead
Medical Library’s Contagious Exhibit Sure To Go Viral
She may be…a bag of TROUBLE. Syphilis – Gonorrhea.U.S. Public Health Service,United States, 1940s.Photomechanical print: color; 41 x 51 cm. Artist: "Christian."A sultry, heavily-made-up woman squints provocatively, while smoking a cigarette. WWII posters usually addressed men, and fingered promiscuous women as the source of contagion.They are an unholy alliance of science, art, medicine, politics, history, advertising, and propaganda. Dramatic images use visual shorthand to convey danger, disease, and death. Shadows, crowds, skeletons, vermin, blob-like micro-organisms, and sinister sick-o's threaten innocent men, women, and children. But these aren't posters for grindhouse horror flicks from the fabulous 50's. They're government issue placards...