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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
drhawass.com Here's the caption but go to the above page to see the photograph - well worth seeing. This fragment of a mosaic floor, showing a dog alongside an overturned bronze jug, was found during the construction of the New Library of Alexandria. It is now part of the library’s museum. The mosaic is extremely detailed; the dog’s red collar can clearly be seen and the artist has carefully...
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ephemera (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Guildhall Library Prints and Maps collections are being permanently moved to the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA). Guildhall Library's Print Room was/is one of the best sources of pictorial material on London history. Its collection includes tens of thousands of...
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Kolkata Fun (Free subscription) | yesterday
National Library – The 2nd largest library in Asia . Its collection is in excess of 1million books and 5,00,000 manuscripts, with a number of over 18,000 reader-members. Several notable persons have donated their invaluable collections to the Library at different times. Sadar – Ud-ddin, the Zaminder of Buhor, Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, Surendra Nath Sen [...]
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Jan Jones (Free subscription) | yesterday
. I know I'm posting this early, but I'm away to the RNA Conference next week and I might just possibly not find myself with spare time soon. So - if anyone is near the Lake District on Friday 10th July, get yourself across to Penrith Library where there will be a sumptuous gathering of romantic novelists ready to meet the public, talk about their work and sign books. Just look at all those names!...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
The community is invited to celebrate the newly expanded Del Paso Heights Library from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday at 920 Grand Ave. The festivities will include free refreshments, a face painter, balloon artist, a juggler, a henna tattoo artist, children's games, and family entertainer Francie Dillon, who will perform at 4 p.m., according to a news release. The library branch now includes an expanded Kids'...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
Budget reductions from the city of Sacramento will force seven Sacramento Public Library library branches to cut hours beginning Monday, according to a news release. However, three branches will increase their hours, the release added. Each of the 10 city library branches now will maintain a 36-hour weekly schedule, the release said. The library's book and materials budget will not be affected. The...
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Feral Library Tales (Free subscription) | yesterday
What a great Library, loved the spaces and the 'fast floor'... Brisbane City Council Library from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo . @kalgrl
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Edu in Review (Free subscription) | yesterday
This summer, everyone is pinching their pennies. If you find that’s you, and you’re running out of ideas and money, then head down to the public library. You might be surprised, but they aren’t just for studying. In fact, during the summer while school is out, the library can actually be a quite refuge. Here [...]
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The Daily Gazette stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
Trustees of the Schenectady County Public Library have closed the book, at least until September, on plans to split from county control.
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Legal Writing Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Here's a little something special for all of our citation junkie readers. It's a link to the Citations Committee Page of the American Association of Law Libraries. Enjoy. (mew)
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
First posted in 2002. The Library of Congress, Free Web Access to the LC Authority Files At the beginning of July the Library of Congress began providing FREE “trial” public access to the LC Authority File via the LC Authorities site. For the cataloging community access to these files can serve many purposes. Four files (Subject, [...]
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Library Stuff (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Toledo Blade – “Democratic state House lawmakers, standing in front of the downtown Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, said yesterday Senate Republicans are holding the House’s proposed state budget “hostage.” But they had few words of comfort for area library systems that are facing the loss of 50 percent of their state funds under their plan”
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The Good Library Blog (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
This blog has often said that we have watched the needless collapse of the public library service in London and that the bureaucrats who are responsible for it meddle and muddle endlessly in the wrong activities. In my list of recent major reviews I included 'whatever is going on in London' because there generally is one initiative or another which occupies a lot of time and paper. Methodical espionage...
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BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Two recent scholar books with Brontë content: 1. Authors at Work: the Creative Environment Edited by Ceri Sullivan Edited by Graeme Harper Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 9781843841951 First published: July 2009 Writers often meditate on what physical situations they need to do the work in hand. A room of their own, bills, bed, procrastination, regular meals, Benzedrine and beer, office routines, walking...
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It's all Good. (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Here’s a link to a story from the local newspaper along with quotes from people at the library where I volunteer. Public libraries are having children improve their vocabularies and their reading skills by reading aloud to certified therapy dogs. (There, that should prove this blog is fair and balanced when it comes to the [...]
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kellya | 23/02/2009
"I kind of see Murphy being a little better hitter right now, so Tatis could go that way," Manuel said, referring to Tatis being used in right field against southpaws. "It all depends on how well they're doing. If they're not getting hits, they're not going to play." Manuel clearly sounded as if he feels Church has more to prove to him than Murphy.
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