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May 13, 2019 by libroshombre
Here’s a story about a pricelessly unique 16th century book that’s just been rediscovered that describes 15,000 other books. Last …
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Category: book buying, books, bookstores, cartographers, librarians, libraries, libraries and librarians, library collections, library history, Uncategorized
| Tags: Arni Magnusson, Hernanado COlon, Heywood Hill Books, The Epitomes
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May 5, 2019 by libroshombre
The ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu said we should feign inferiority to encourage our opponents’ unwarranted arrogance. That’s easy for …
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Category: computers, confidence, hacking, kissing, librarians, malware, Uncategorized
| Tags: ethernet, Jack Black, Jim Dewitt, Neil Armstrong, Rose WIlder Lane, Sun Tzu
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November 24, 2018 by libroshombre
“Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once suggested. “A company of the wisest …
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Category: librarians, libraries, library collections, Uncategorized
| Tags: 5 Laws of Libraries, biblioburros, S.R. Ranganathan, Warburg Library
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January 1, 2018 by libroshombre
Being a librarian isn’t as straightforward as you’d think. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the mother of all dictionaries, …
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Category: librarians, libraries, libraries and librarians, library history, Uncategorized
| Tags: Barbara Gorman, Casanova, John Dee
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August 1, 2017 by libroshombre
The age-old mystery of how flamingoes sleep on one leg without falling over has finally been resolved. Biologists at …
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Category: brain, librarians, libraries, sleep, Uncategorized
| Tags: flamingo, Homer1A, naked mole rat, nap pod
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August 1, 2017 by libroshombre
“Cussin’” arose the other day while discussing the differences between the terms “expletive” and explicative,” and this triggered a …
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Category: books, cursing, expletives, language, librarians, theft, Uncategorized
| Tags: cussing, explicate, france, Japan
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July 4, 2017 by libroshombre
There’s a set of values held in common by public librarians everywhere: a love of books and belief in …
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Category: books, bookstores, librarians, libraries, Uncategorized
| Tags: Barbara Tuchman, hamzeh almaaytah, Junction, Pack Horse Library Project, skunks
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April 24, 2017 by libroshombre
A recent round of reading has left me ready to revive the seventeenth-century British political party known as “the …
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Category: banned books, book burning, books, censorship, librarians, libraries, Uncategorized
| Tags: Abhorrers, Big Bill Thompson, bill bryson, Karen Armstrong, Library Bill of Rights, Trump
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April 24, 2017 by libroshombre
It might have been learning about Richard “Waterfront” Brown during Osher Lifelong Learning’s Fairbanks history class that got me …
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Category: biography, character, librarians, names, Uncategorized
| Tags: al jennings, Lady Betty, Mr. T, Rachel Maddow, Temple Houston, Waterfront Brown
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October 12, 2016 by libroshombre
The autumn apple harvest is upon us, so it’s worth remembering that every barrel’s bound to have some bad …
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Category: librarians, libraries, Uncategorized
| Tags: Andre Norton, apples, Baron von Munchausen, children's librarians, Clara Estelle Breed, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Rudolf Erich Raspe