College librarian & special collections cataloger on the side.
SOMEONE SPOILS A BOOK FOR ME
In high school:
Me: I just started reading [book].
Mom (excitedly): Did you get to the part where he gets shot?
Thanks, Mom.
Saturday in the theater watching a movie adaption of the same book:
Mother who can’t stop whisper-talking loudly throughout the entire flick to ten year old who is way to old to be sitting on her lap: He’s about to get shot; I don’t want you to see. [covers child’s eyes]
Really?
“Mr. Sulu, remind me to never piss you off.”
Need to channel this when expunging library patrons at closing or dealing with certain relations.
(via absurdical)
Image of absurdical. You can’t hear, but that penguin is speaking in capital letters.
(via absurdical)
I WOULD WORK OUT EVERY DAY IF MY WORK OUT PARTNER WAS A WALRUS
Omfg that walrus is doing sittups. Omfg
Amazing!!!
^This. A walrus doing sit-ups is what the Internet was made for.
When my cat was alive, she used to yell at me when I exercised. Clearly have been seeking the wrong work out partners in the animal kingdom.
Book Sculptures
Landscapes carved and painted into old books by Canadian artist Guy Laramee.
I. Just. Wow.
Quite captivated by these.
(via laura-in-libraryland)
nypl:
Was one of Brooklyn’s finest in Harlem in 1939? This Sid Grossman photo of “Harlem Loiterers” from the Prints Collection at NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture has created quite a stir since being posted to the Center’s Facebook page the other day. Why? Because the man on the right looks a heck of a lot like Jay-Z (for evidence, check out these photos of Jay-Z when he visited The New York Public Library in 2011). Cue Twilight Zone music, right? Schomburg’s Curator of Digital Collections Sylviane A. Diouf found the photo while researching an exhibition, and said, “I was immediately struck by the similarity to Jay-Z and actually laughed out loud … I still hope somebody will tell us who that you man really was.”
So is Jay-Z a time traveler? Is this someone else - anyone know who? What do you think?
My favorite answer so far has been Tumblarian librarianpirate’s answer: “Wrong. Beyonce is a time lord, Jay-Z is her companion.”
My first scrolling through before I read the description was, in fact, “Jay-Z…?”
Concur with time lord hypothesis.
Result of my boyfriend’s weird web searches inspired by things he heard watching QI.
Our therapy dog visits started today! Here is a photo of Kennedy the Great Pyrenees pup getting a loving
hughead lean from a student. Kennedy and her twin, Duffy, were BIG hits on campus.P.S. I love my job. My bf laughs that I have somehow managed to unite my two loves- libraries and animals. I say…best work day EVER!
WANT.
thebookh8r asked: Aaaah congrats on the job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We should email and talk in more detail about this. Also, who the hell asks for SAT scores?? I mean, I know I took them. But. That was a long time ago and don't the scores mean different things now? But basically, you're awesome and I am so pleased for you!
Thank you; you are also awesome! And I will be in turn asking you for more detail about mad pooping at your library/our superlative (don’t ask what kind of superlatives) alma mater. And you know, the rest of your life, but seriously, what’s more important?
I will force myself to clean my apartment more, then email.
