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July 9, 2022 by libroshombre
Anticipation can be excruciating, but also sweet, as A.A. Milne illustrated in writing “‘Well,’ said Pooh, ‘what I like …
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Category: baseball, insects, libraries, public libraries, sports, tools
| Tags: 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, anticipation, Cheryl Bidwell, darners, Dock Ellis, dragonflies, Future Library, knives, Story Garden, Story Walk, wooden knives
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May 23, 2022 by libroshombre
Once upon a time, back when literacy was really rare, no one ever read silently to themselves, and all …
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Category: archeology, books, librarians, library history, library school, literacy, public libraries, reading, royalty, science
| Tags: Ashurbanipal, Henry Layard, hygrometers, Jean Andre Deluc, Njegos, silent reading
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March 19, 2022 by libroshombre
The Lone Tones is the name of the acapella doowop group in Austin that I’ve sung with for forty-plus …
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Category: autobiography, libraries, libraries and librarians, musicians, numbers, public libraries
| Tags: carl barks, elephants, Jimmy Reed, Keith Richards, Scrooge McDuck
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March 12, 2022 by libroshombre
Eric Hoffer, the American longshoreman philosopher, noticed that “Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which …
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Category: art, books, classics, fruit, illustrations, illustrators, librarians, libraries, plants, public libraries, reference librarians, trash
| Tags: bananas, Eric Hoffer, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, nix, phloems, Rockwell Kent, Vladimir Putin, White Wings
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March 12, 2022 by libroshombre
Carl Sagan is certainly missed; apart from his glowing cosmological credentials and general brilliance, he was insightful while maintaining his …
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Category: book banning, books, comics, education, libraries, public libraries, reading, reading brain, school librarians, school libraries
| Tags: Alaska Library Association, Carl Sagan, Fred Laswell, lianhuanhua, Lu Xun, New English Canaan, Puritans, Snuffy Smith, Thomas Morton, Ukraine
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November 6, 2021 by libroshombre
“Woman Sues Kellogg Over Lack of Strawberries in Strawberry Pop-Tarts,” a recent Washington Post article, got me considering how …
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Category: animals, battles, books, education, grammar, libraries, public libraries, sayings
| Tags: Alamo, ellipsis, frogs, Juan Seguin
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May 21, 2021 by libroshombre
“Mutable” is a good word that means “prone to change, inconstant,” according to Merriam-Webster, and it also describes all …
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Category: democracy, elections, engineering, fascism, libraries, plants, public libraries, republic, word origins, words
| Tags: al-Jazari, al-Qarawiyyin Library, Bloody Tubs, cooping, evites, Know Nothing
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April 8, 2021 by libroshombre
My daughter Mimi was eight the winter of 1997 when she received a letter from Trina Schart Hyman, the …
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Category: books, bookshelves, libraries and librarians, public libraries, reading
| Tags: Beverly Cleary, browsing, David Petersen, Guys Read Gals Read, Trina Schart Hyman
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January 14, 2021 by libroshombre
Merriam-Webster.com has announced that, “based upon a statistical analysis of words that are looked up in extremely high numbers …
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Category: books, diseases, epidemics, health, history, humor, laughter, libraries, medicine, pandemic, public libraries, word of the year
| Tags: abracadabra, jester, Triboulet
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January 10, 2021 by libroshombre
Anti-democracy insurgents are storming the Capitol Building and holding Congress hostage as I write this, while the President refuses …
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Category: libraries, philanthropy, printers, printing, public libraries
| Tags: castigators, E.F. Schumacher, Guide for the Perplexed, intermediate technology, Ladder of Charity, Lapham's Quarterly, Maimonides, Rambam
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