Librarian Revolution
power to the people through indexing and charm
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Photoset reblogged from Midnight's Waltz
This is kinda how I feel every time I find something someone was looking for
(Source: delightfuldisney)
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Photo reblogged from Daily Calvin & Hobbes
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Post reblogged from Library Advocates
I think that this is a terrible idea. This would only serve to be a way for people to censor what young adults are reading: I would not be the person I am today if my reading habits had been limited by my parents. They trusted me to read and interact only what I was ready for. The only time they stopped me from reading something was when I picked up a Danielle Steele novel when I was 11 (and I’m thankful for that, don’t get me wrong).
We need to trust that teenagers are reading what they’re ready for. Books are so private and require effort, so if something is too much or unwanted, all they have to do is close the book. Don’t limit thought and choices for teens.
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Quote reblogged from WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLRWhat an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
CARL SAGAN (via Advice to Writers)
A professor of mine would always tell us at some point during the semester that a book was a conversation across time and space, communication that cannot be answered but interacted with. It was so essentially human, that you can’t help but participate.
(Source: kadrey)
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Photo reblogged from Librarianista
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I graduated! :D
All I need now is a job, then I can be a real librarian!
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Photo reblogged from Daily Calvin & Hobbes
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Photo reblogged from Hark! A Vagrant:
Happy Mother’s Day!
I often portray my mom as a timid lady, because she is so loving and sweet. But she’s tough too, she tried very hard to give us every opportunity in a small place, without much. My mother is the one who has believed in my abilities the longest, and the fiercest, and for that I owe her everything.
In this particular exchange, she also showed me that people’s talent may not always be what it appears to be to others, and that we all may have a greatness in us that not everyone can see.
Remember to call your mother today. She loves you.
