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The Books Shackleton Took to Antarctica

March 2, 2016March 2, 2016 - by Roy Tennant - 1 Comment

As was recently reported, the Royal Geographic Society in London digitized a photograph that was taken in 1915 of Sir Ernest Shackelton’s Antarctic library by Frank Hurley. They were then …

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A Sister Blog is Born

February 8, 2016February 8, 2016 - by Roy Tennant

OCLC has launched a new blog: Next. Focused on what comes next for libraries, librarians, and the communities they serve, it will draw upon OCLC staff with a variety of experiences and perspectives. First …

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David Bowie’s Top 100 Books

January 13, 2016 - by Roy Tennant

If you grew up on David Bowie’s music as I did, this has not been a good week. We lost his creative genius way too early. Social media has been awash …

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Gifts for Librarians and Archivists – 2015 edition

December 11, 2015December 14, 2015 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 2 Comments.

For the last few years, we’ve featured a list of fun gifts for librarians and archivists. In the past, we have crowd sourced the list but this year we decided …

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Current Cites – the amazing 25th anniversary

July 31, 2015July 30, 2015 - by Jim Michalko

I suspect that a large part of the audience for this blog also subscribes to Current Cites the “annotated bibliography of selected articles, books, and digital documents on information technology” …

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The Five Stages of Code4Lib

February 19, 2015February 18, 2015 - by Bruce Washburn

I had the good fortune to attend the Code4Lib 2015 conference in Portland OR last week.  It was a great event as usual, but it’s an event that I don’t always …

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The Archivist Wine
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Gifts for archivists and librarians: from the practical to the luxurious

December 15, 2014December 15, 2014 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 1 Comment

We asked for suggestions for gifts that would be suitable for librarians or archivists and the community responded! Thank you so much for all the wonderful and thoughtful gift ideas! …

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[Untitled, Anacostia family c. 1950. Smithsonian Institution]
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Gifts for archivists (and librarians)?

December 2, 2014December 16, 2014 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 25 Comments.

[Update: our holiday gift guide is now available! Thanks for the contributions] Last year we asked on the ArchiveGrid blog for suggestions for gifts for archivists — and we were …

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“Managing Monsters”? Academics and Assessment

November 26, 2014December 1, 2014 - by Jennifer Schaffner

Recently in the London Review of Books Marina Warner explained why she quit her post at the University of Essex. I found it a shocking essay. Warner was pushed out …

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old book by Thalita Carvalho | Flickr | cc:by
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Tag, you’re it: Books that have stayed with you

September 30, 2014September 30, 2014 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 10 Comments.

Recently, this has been going around on Facebook: List ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take more than a few minutes, and don’t think too hard. …

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