What a better way to spend Valentine's Day them to buy something bookish for a loved one and to give a book away to a child!International Book Giving Day encourages you to give, leave or a donate a book to a child.At Biblio, BiblioWorks is dedicated to doing just this on a daily basis - getting books in the hands of kids in communities in need. They believe that healthy communities require healthy minds. That's why they have been building libraries, supplying books and training librarians in the poorest communities of Bolivia since 2005.and if you are still looking for something...
Lovers Live On In Library’s Victorian Valentines
Display Card For Valentine Maker Jonathan King, London c. 1870's.(All Images Courtesy of Bodleian Library.)A permanent collection of temporary items. That's one way to sum up what libraries and archives call "ephemera." Preserving items that were meant to be briefly used and thrown away seems like an exercise in futility at first glance. But paper ephemera -- such as leaflets, tickets, programs and playbills, posters, bookmarks, trade and calling cards, advertising inserts, and product packaging -- often reflect the day to day history of the average person in a way that more formal historical records can't.The Manufacture Of Valentines As...