Is there #library or #librarian mastodon? University of Alberta is looking for an "Indigenous Engagement Librarian"
If you know someone who might fit in this role, please send this or apply and come work with me (their office will be right next to mine) #librarians#librarianship
I'm (still!) working on my paper about Finnish public libraries and their architecture. There's an interesting recent development where the library is fused with other public services. In the Iso Omena mall in Espoo, Finland, the library now also serves as the waiting area for the local health centre. I'm not yet sure what to think about this. At least, this multiuse space could have been given some identity and character. #library#publiclibrary#publiclibraries#libraryarchitecture#architecture@academicchatter@architecture
I know financially it's better to support buying the books direct as the author gets paid per page on #KindleUnlimited (last I knew) but I just can't swing it. Also, I don't typically read a book more than once (see #library) and using Kindle Unlimited makes sense. Now to get through my #TBR pile... @bookstodon#books#reading#AmReading
My friend Emily Drabinski is the incoming president of the American Library Association. She has been named by the Montana State Library Commission as the reason they are withdrawing Montana from the American Library Association. This is bullshit.
The ALA issued a statement about this which is all about ALA. Emily deserves our support. Please join me in signing this letter in solidarity with her and her work. Thank you.
#Job#Bibliothek
Das Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien (#MMZ) in #Potsdam sucht zum 1.9.2023 einen Bibliothekarin (w/m/d) für die Institutsbibliothek, unbefristet, Entgeltgruppe: E 9b TV-L (zunächst 50 Prozent, ab 1.3.2024 Vollzeit geplant).
This profile from @librarycongress notes that he was seen as a failure in his lifetime, and that, although he is today venerated and best known as the philosopher of nature and the simple life, as well as a civil libertarian, he was also much more.
Did you know of his interest and expertise in #maps and #cartography?
Lesser-known fact about Henry David Thoreau (b. 12 July 1817):
He revolutionized his father's pencil factory--and the then-inferior American pencil industry--before moving on to the literary and political activity for which we remember him today
The Sakya Monastery in tibet has a library comprising some 84,000 books. Most are Buddhist scriptures, but there are works of literature, history, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, and art. They date back centuries.
In 2011 they began to digitize the library. All books are indexed and about 20% have been fully digitized.
Allows you to create a list of #libraries where you have a card (borrowing privileges), and then displays ebook / audiobook availability when you visit certain book pages.
It's very cool and has saved me alot of money (borrowing vs buying).