If it’s a slow work week, go check out the long article over at Library Juice entitled “A Librarian’s Work.” A great view of the profession from way back in the 1870’s.
Author: jessamyn
now that the dumb holiday is over
Bizarre gift item: Library of Congress baseball from the LoC’s Yahoo storefront. “Had Mr. Jefferson not been born long before the game of baseball was invented, this is the ball he would have had in his collection!”
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Hi. I hope you had a wonderful holiday in whatever way you chose to celebrate it. Remember the days are just going to get longer and longer even as — in Vermont anyhow — the nights continue to get colder.
what do you collect?
I joke that there are 300 santas in my house thanks to my decorating-fanatic landlady. This is nothing compared to this Knoxville librarian.
what else can you catch from a book?
Librarian finds smallpox scabs in 19th century book about the Civil War.