Visit your local libraries!
We love to see that you care for libraries as much as we do, so we were thinking that it would be a great idea if you visit your local/favorite/closer library and share with us your experience there and -if you can- some photographs too.
Submit your posts, let us discover libraries around the world!
Please do?
RESIDENTS OF HANGZHOU, China, can hop onto any one of at least 86,000 bicycles and ride wherever they like. The bikes are easy to find, too, because people tends to leave them any old place. On sidewalks. Under overpasses. In parks. Leaning against walls and lying in vacant lots.
Police have rounded up 23,000 bikes so far this year and hauled them to 16 corrals around the city. From the ground, these bicycle graveyards look like junkyards. Seen from above, they take on an impressionistic quality.
Full Story: Wired
Fascinating!
freacktheincrediblyhardtopoison:
My local library has a service where I ca have a librarian try to answer a question for me or find a book on any subject over the internet any time. I requested magazines in Esperanto yesterday and I just asked how closely clams and fungus were related (close, but not as close as fungus and insects[I think]) and it is free! See if your local library has this, it is so useful!
Spoiler alert: all of your libraries will do this for you.
PLEASE ASK US WEIRD QUESTIONS THEY’RE THE BEST.
2017 Notable Videos for Adults announced
The ALA Video Round Table Notable Videos for Adults Committee has compiled its 2017 list of Notable Videos for Adults, a list of 15 outstanding films released on video within the past two years and suitable for all libraries serving adults. The committee selected this year’s titles from 67 nominees to the list. The list is compiled for use by librarians and the general adult populace.
Good to know.
Thanks to @bookriot for this great list!
Make sure to check out our Washington Office’s tumblr, @libraryadvocates. They post about federal policies that affect libraries, including copyright, privacy and access.
Good know!
NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg is a self proclaimed crafter. A week ago she made a stuffed dinosaur from scraps on the space station. The little T-rex is made form the lining of Russian food containers and the toy is stuffed with scraps from an old T-shirt. While many toys have flown into space, this is the first produced in space.
Photos: Karen Nyberg, via CollectSpace
How awesome!
