It’s the end of the semester! That means that I get to spend more time here:
and here:
and here:
and, lest you think that I spend all my time in wholesome outdoor activities, it also means that I get to spend more time poking around the internet. Four recent favorites:
Do I have room for one more nerdy t-shirt?
There’s always time to admire great authors with enormous teddy bears:
Flavorwire » Extremely Silly Photos of Extremely Serious Writers.
and little girls in nice stockings checking out books from a librarian behind an enormous desk:
15 Vintage Photos of Librarians – Mental Floss.
Wait! What’s that you say? That there are more awesome old photos of librarians in the University of Wisconsin’s “Historic Librarians and Benefactors Digital Collection? Including a photo of Melvil Dewey (without beard) that’s worthy of inclusion in My Daguerrotype Boyfriend?
Excellent! Until the next post, I’ll leave you dreaming of a time when the American Library Association conference included a collegial boat trip from the Thousand Islands to Boston via Quebec and Halifax:
(from here
Sign me up for that boat trip!
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