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theguardian.com·há 6 dias

As heatwaves hit Britain, spare a thought for farm animals | Letters

Claire Bass says animal welfare is a blind spot for the government. Plus, Chris Phillipson on the libraries operating as ‘cool spaces’, Mick Beeby on lido restoration, and Dr Julian McDonough on NHS p

travelinlibrarian.info·há 23 dias

A fellowship of warrior-poets

Half a millennium ago, librarians were info custodians: acquirers, catalogers, curators, retrievers. Tûma had shown me photos of shy-looking people working in monastic silence amid… The post A fellows

library.oregonstate.edu·há 28 dias

Introducing GearShare at Hatfield | Libraries

GearShare pulls together essential field gear from multiple locations across campus — including iLab and the Marine and Coastal Opportunities inventory room in the education wing — and makes it availa

theguardian.com·há 29 dias

Sphinxes, movie stars and 3m books: inside Los Angeles’s beloved art deco library

The showcase library’s centenary was celebrated by thousands who filled the still-relevant public institutionThe central library in downtown Los Angeles has seen its fair share of colorful moments.The

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Chatsworth House pilots ‘community membership’ free entry scheme

Initiative with Derbyshire Libraries aims to boost access to cultural experiences and ‘champion reading for pleasure’When Kate, a 47-year-old contract worker came face to face with Charlotte Brontë’s

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‘A counter-narrative of history’: Schomburg Center’s 100 years of celebrating Black culture

A Puerto Rico-born New Yorker’s relentless collecting on the African diaspora is still the core of a Harlem institutionGrowing up in Puerto Rico in the late 19th century, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was

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‘There’s an aura about it’: 210-year-old first edition of Jane Austen’s Emma on display in Melbourne

The major acquisition is part of an initiative to redress the gender imbalance in the State Library of Victoria’s rare books collectionLast year, when Janeites around the world marked the English auth

internetarchivecanada.org·há cerca de 2 meses

What Canadian Libraries Have Been Building — and Why It Matters

Canada Day is a good moment to take stock of what we’ve built together, and to celebrate a collection that reflects Canada’s extraordinary depth and diversity. This Canada Day, we’re celebrating twent