The public library in Gothenburg, Sweden takes Sartorialist-esque style photos of people in the library. The photos are on their Facebook page.
Thanks, Donna!
LJ Wordmark: Now & Then
Jan 7, ’12
6:00 AM
I suspected that the vintage LJ wordmark was only used inside the magazine. So I used the ever helpful Multnomah County online reference service to request a scan of the cover for that day.
How many of us want to read “Equipment Then and Now?”
Let’s look at this again just because it is awesome.
Library Hall of Fame from 1951
Jan 5, ’12
6:00 AM
On March 15, 1951 Library Journal recognized “40 leaders of the library movement” in a Library Hall of Fame. Did you know we have a hall of fame? I didn’t. It was created to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the ALA. Or, as the article spells, A.L.A.
Step back before you nominate yourself:
It has been agreed that this present list should not include the living, however obvious and significant had been their contribution. The list, which such additions, would promptly be doubled.
There are some really neat sounding people included and some great trivia. For instance, I didn’t know that Josephus N. Larned was the first person to use the Dewey Decimal system to classify an entire collection. Judson T. Jennings “gave young men the feeling that librarianship was not exclusively a woman’s job” and set up camp libraries in Germany during World War I.
Give it a read. Here’s a microfiche scan of the Library Hall of Fame article. [PDF] Note the continuous pagination!
There’s a very short Wikipedia article on the Library Hall of Fame too.
The best part about the article? Seven pages of Library Journal with no ads.
Surprise Books at Multnomah County Library
Dec 22, ’11
6:00 AM
These are pairs of groups of books wrapped and meant to be checked out and unwrapped at home. With RFID they can be checked out while still wrapped, and without the patron knowing what they are (unless they look at the checkout screen or slip). – Todd Mecklem.
Retro AOL Bumpersticker
Dec 20, ’11
6:00 AM
I saw this in a library parking lot the other day.
Golly, remember all of those CD-ROMs?
