Quem entra pelo lado esquerdo estão as janelas da Hemeroteca. As obras que se vão realizar no edifício da Biblioteca estão a gerar controvérsia pelo óbvio prejuízo dos que precisam de lá ir investigar, e há um abaixo-assinado a circular. Por outro lado, admito que o edifício precise de renovação […]
New York Today Brooklyn Library’s ‘Books Unbanned’ Team Wins Accolade The five staff members were recognized as librarians of the year for their efforts to reach readers in places that censor books. By James Barron Jan. 4, 2023, 12:04 a.m. ET You’re reading the New York Today newsletter. Local reporting on the stories […]
The ObserverLibraries ‘Our mission is crucial’: meet the warrior librarians of Ukraine Left on the shelf: Russian troops deliberately shelled this library in Chernihiv, northern Ukraine, in April 2022. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock When Russia invaded Ukraine, a key part of its strategy was to destroy historic libraries in order to eradicate the […]
(Pastas de correspondência em português, espanhol, inglês e russo.) O ARQUIVO EPHEMERA tem também um programa de transcrições, um pouco abandonado nos últimos tempos por nossa responsabilidade e falta de oportunidade. Com voluntários podemos retomá-lo criando um local com documentos, principalmente manuscritos, com resolução elevada para ser mais fácil a […]
Your Personal Archiving Project: Where Do You Start? May 11, 2016 by Mike Ashenfelder “Simplify, simplify.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden. Before and After: the Herbert A. Philbrick Papers. Photo by Laura Kells, the Library of Congress. Most of us comb through a lifelong collection of personal papers and photos either when we have […]
… e que pela natureza dos nossos fundos podemos perfeitamente fazer. Em bom rigor, já fazemos para a gastronomia, o desporto antigo, as “capsulas do tempo”, etc. Untold lives. da British Library.
Opinion: Avoiding our ‘gay penguins’ book? Better steer clear of these kids’ classics, too! By Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson Washington Post, April 15, 2022 (Henry Cole for The Washington Post) Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson wrote the 2005 children’s book “And Tango Makes Three,” which has been one of the […]
Washington Post Meet the 1,300 librarians racing to back up Ukraine’s digital archives Using open source tools and Slack, these volunteers have backed up everything from the country’s historical records and census data to children’s poems and basket weaving techniques. By Pranshu Verma 8/4/2022 A public library damaged by shelling in […]
“Supporting library neutrality by balancing books is in everyone’s interest. Deep public respect for the traditional library ideal will rightly cut against conservatives who offend against it. The sins of woke librarians do not absolve the excesses of the other side. Nor does purging leftist library books comport with traditional […]
COOPER HEWITT ANNOUNCES RECENT ACQUISITIONS TO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION Posted on February 17, 2022 —NEW ACQUISITIONS BOLSTER DIVERSITY OF PERMANENT COLLECTION, RESPOND TO CURRENT ISSUES AND STRENGTHEN KEY AREAS— Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the addition of several important works to the permanent collection. The museum holds one […]
The Best Notes Atlas Obscura Readers Found in Used Books From painful spoilers to such trenchant criticism as “P.S. This book blows!” BY ERIC GRUNDHAUSER JULY 18, 2018 “What did she ever do to you?” and other great margin notes. ANNIE WATTS ONE OF THE GREAT TRUTHS in life is that used books […]
Biblioteca de Ruth Bader Ginsburg vendida por valor “surpreendente” A biblioteca pessoal da juíza do Supremo Tribunal dos Estados Unidos, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, que morreu em 2020, foi vendida esta sexta-feira em leilão por 2,35 milhões de dólares (cerca de 2,1 milhões de euros), superando todas as expectativas. © Getty […]
GO Print Subscribe Share/Save Volunteer Vignette: It’s fun to figure out the puzzle! December 30, 2021 by Carlyn Osborn In today’s post, Abby Shelton interviews a By the People volunteer, Maya, who has gone above and beyond! By the People is a crowdsourced transcription program launched in 2018 at the Library of Congress. Volunteer-created transcriptions are used to make digitized collections more […]
PREDICTIONS FOR JOURNALISM 2022 Historical context will improve local journalism — Matt DeRienzo “If historical context about racial discrimination is on the checklist for every story journalists pursue, it will change how we write about labor, education, health care, transportation, crime, technology, and the environment.” Efforts to prevent schools from teaching […]
Collecting the Globe: The Library Abroad December 7, 2021 by Mark Hartsell Acquisitions librarian Abdus Salam (right) selects titles from a local bookshop in Peshawar, Pakistan. Collecting at the Library of Congress literally never stops. The massive collections of the world’s largest library are the product, in part, of a staff that […]
Librarians, Educators Warn of ‘Organized’ Book Banning Efforts By Andrew Albanese | Nov 18, 2021 Last week, a school board member in Flagler County, Fla., urged the local sheriff to open a criminal investigation over four copies on school library shelves of George M. Johnson’s queer YA memoir All Boys Aren’t Blue. And […]
Print Subscribe Share/Save Summer Beauties: The Golden Age of Travel Posters August 19, 2021 by Neely Tucker This Depression-era Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project poster urged Americans to travel. Artist: Alexander Dux. Prints and Photographs Division. Jan Grenci, a reference specialist in the Prints & Photographs Division, wrote a short piece about travel posters in the […]
