The Paris Review Staff’s Favorite Books of 2019
At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, 2019 felt like the year when civilization teetered definitively toward collapse. Notre Dame burnedContinue Reading
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Libraries
Women Rule 2019 National Film Registry | Library of Congress
“Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today the annual selection of 25 of America’s most influential motion pictures to theContinue Reading
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Stacy Keach on Playing Hemingway | The Hemingway Society
“Stacy Keach joins the show to reflect on his legendary career, particularly his portrayal of Hemingway on the stage, inContinue Reading
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Filmmaker unearths historical treasures in home movies | PBS NewsHour Weekend
Rick Prelinger produces a film series called “Lost Landscapes,” montages thatContinue Reading
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‘Lost’ book of Cuban botany drawings rediscovered after 190 years
Decades of searching uncovered the brilliantly illustrated plants and detailed notes made by a U.S. woman living in Cuba inContinue Reading
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Libraries Use Cloud and Other Tech to Reimagine Traditional Services | EdTech Magazine
From cloud services to smart assistants, campus libraries are rewriting the book on innovation. “A few years ago, for example,Continue Reading
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In Praise of Public Libraries | by Sue Halpern | The New York Review of Books
A public library is predicated on an ethos of sharing and egalitarianism. It is nonjudgmental. It stands in starkContinue Reading
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How to find great books online – The Verge
Find fantastic fiction for your phone or tablet… Source: How to find great books online – The Verge
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Library of Congress aims for ambitious transformation
The Library of Congress is preparing a massive overhaul funded through a private-public partnership that aims to “transform the visitorContinue Reading
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NC State is home to the library of the future — Quartz
Technologies come and go, but libraries are forever. Source: NC State is home to the library of the future —Continue Reading
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Get Excited: The New York Public Library Is Launching Its First Permanent Exhibition | Smart News | Smithsonian
Come 2020, new gallery will feature a rotating trove of artifacts drawn from NYPL’s 46 million-strong collection of treasures Source:Continue Reading
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Lou Reed Archive at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts | The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is thrilled to announce that the Lou Reed Archive has beenContinue Reading
