Meet the future
Wed 7 Apr 2010, 4:22 pm
The library of the future as imagined in 1964 looked a lot like the library where I now work in 1962.
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Archive for the "From the stacks" Category
How To Help the Shut-In Child
Wed 31 Mar 2010, 12:42 pm
Finger puppets. That’s the ticket.
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Use the card catalog!
Wed 31 Mar 2010, 9:04 am
Great illustration from a 1940 book on using the library.
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Forget the iPad, I want my Consumersole!
Tue 30 Mar 2010, 10:58 am
Yesterday’s terminal of tomorrow, today!
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Bibliodyssey
Mon 12 Jun 2006, 10:33 pm
Wow, what a cool blog! Bibliodyssey, which just came to my attention thanks to boingboing, is so visually rich, I don’t know that I have read a word of it, so busy have I been looking at the images. Each entry features one or more scans of illustrations or book pages. This one comes from [...]
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To be literate is to possess the cow of plenty
Fri 3 Feb 2006, 5:40 pm
To be literate is to possess the cow of plenty Originally uploaded by Colorado College Tutt Library. People have been throwing around Ranganathan’s five laws of library science so I thought I would take a look at the original. I was pleasantly surprised to see this beautiful design on the cover of the 1931 edition [...]
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Readers are forbidden to MUTILATE
Thu 27 Oct 2005, 10:04 pm
Scans of some old library book labels from the Tutt Library periodicals collection.
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