history

libraries are brothels for the mind

The Guardian has a “how to” section about how to use a library. Required reading for bibliophiles or just the book-curious.

In most libraries, there is a section of large-print books. The print is so large, in fact, that most of the text has to be removed. For example, in 100 Years Of Solitude, you’ll be lucky to get 40 Years Of Moderate Loneliness.

bookmo

Posted on 14Oct03 by jessamyn

Reminiscing about Alabama’s first bookmobile, in 1931.

chained libraries

Posted on 08Oct03 by jessamyn

I have been reading a book called The Book on the Book Shelf which is not a history of books, or libraries, but a history of shelving. As many of you likely know, books used to be so precious and so rare that they were only allowed to be used if they were permanently chained to their shelves and by extension, their desks.