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theartofgooglebooks: Late 19th and early 20th century circulation stamps. From the back matter of The Epochs of Painting by R. N. Wornum (1864).

theartofgooglebooks:

Late 19th and early 20th century circulation stamps.

From the back matter of The Epochs of Painting by R. N. Wornum (1864).

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Don’t ask them to use the Wi-Fi ladydilettanti: Awesome old photo of the day.  The Mundaneum, an institution created in 1910 by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine, aimed to gather together all the world’s knowledge. An Archive with more than 12 million index cards, some consider it a forerunner of the internet. Otlet dreamt that one day all the information he collected could be accessed by people from the comfort of their own homes. (Wikipedia) Ken Jennings, how did you manage to leave this out of Brainiac? View high resolution

Don’t ask them to use the Wi-Fi

ladydilettanti:

Awesome old photo of the day. 

The Mundaneum, an institution created in 1910 by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine, aimed to gather together all the world’s knowledge. An Archive with more than 12 million index cards, some consider it a forerunner of the internet. Otlet dreamt that one day all the information he collected could be accessed by people from the comfort of their own homes. (Wikipedia)

Ken Jennings, how did you manage to leave this out of Brainiac?

(Reblogged from libraryphantomg5)
Overdue

Overdue

(Source: weirdmindwanders)

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Faster than Excite susiesnapshot: LIFE: “Men and women looking up books through the card catalogue at the Congressional Library.” Photo by Bernard Hoffman, 1941.

Faster than Excite

susiesnapshot:

LIFE: “Men and women looking up books through the card catalogue at the Congressional Library.” Photo by Bernard Hoffman, 1941.

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Third one from the right, down eight literatureismyutopia: Chişinău (Moldova) - National Library by Danielzolli on Flickr. View high resolution

Third one from the right, down eight

literatureismyutopia:

Chişinău (Moldova) - National Library by Danielzolli on Flickr.

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All this would fit in your pocket now The photo shows the busy catalog card distribution office at the Library of Congress. There’s no date on the photographic print. Recently, we needed to determine when the photo was taken, so out came my magnifying glass. (LOC: Picture This blog) View high resolution

All this would fit in your pocket now

The photo shows the busy catalog card distribution office at the Library of Congress. There’s no date on the photographic print. Recently, we needed to determine when the photo was taken, so out came my magnifying glass. (LOC: Picture This blog)

Physically speaking theartofgooglebooks: Stamp reading “Not to leave library”; statement contradicted by digitization and subsequent digital distribution. From the back matter of The Cause of Warm and Frigid Periods by Charles Austin Mendell Taber (1894). [Here] View high resolution

Physically speaking

theartofgooglebooks:

Stamp reading “Not to leave library”; statement contradicted by digitization and subsequent digital distribution.

From the back matter of The Cause of Warm and Frigid Periods by Charles Austin Mendell Taber (1894). [Here]

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chicagopubliclibrary: Vintage Chicago Public Library Bookmobile Check out the digital collection for more! (h/t thelifeguardlibrarian for inspiring this post) View high resolution

chicagopubliclibrary:

Vintage Chicago Public Library Bookmobile

Check out the digital collection for more!

(h/t thelifeguardlibrarian for inspiring this post)

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pedrocobo: New York Public Library  View high resolution

pedrocobo:

New York Public Library 

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An $81 million library opened Monday at the University of Chicago. And there’s not a book in sight. Designed by architect Helmut Jahn, the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library provides 180 seats for students and faculty to study under a glass dome constructed from 691 panels, none of them exactly the same shape. The library also expands digitization and conservation operations for the university’s collections, which include a piece of a Gutenberg Bible and books printed on papyrus, ancient Egypt’s version of paper. Fifty feet below ground on the Hyde Park campus, a system of five automated cranes retrieves and stores volumes that are sorted according to book size, not content. The new library has room for 3.5 million volumes in the underground area, which is not accessible to anyone but select library staff. UPDATE: Take a video tour.

An $81 million library opened Monday at the University of Chicago.

And there’s not a book in sight.

Designed by architect Helmut Jahn, the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library provides 180 seats for students and faculty to study under a glass dome constructed from 691 panels, none of them exactly the same shape. The library also expands digitization and conservation operations for the university’s collections, which include a piece of a Gutenberg Bible and books printed on papyrus, ancient Egypt’s version of paper.

Fifty feet below ground on the Hyde Park campus, a system of five automated cranes retrieves and stores volumes that are sorted according to book size, not content. The new library has room for 3.5 million volumes in the underground area, which is not accessible to anyone but select library staff.

UPDATE: Take a video tour.

(Reblogged from thelifeguardlibrarian)
bookshelfporn: Biblioteca Reina Sofia by whatisthedifference   History View high resolution

bookshelfporn:

Biblioteca Reina Sofia by whatisthedifference  

History

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