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It’s still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

Neil Gaiman (via ireadpastmybedtime)

Library demonstration at the British Library. Today at Midday.

My local library has a service where I ca have a librarian try to answer a question for me or find a book on any subject over the internet any time. I requested magazines in Esperanto yesterday and I just asked how closely clams and fungus were related (close, but not as close as fungus and insects[I think]) and it is free! See if your local library has this, it is so useful!

"Sometimes information about the Library gets out" she said slowly. 'not just in conversations like this. Librarians are observed, or they talk too much, or maybe the Fae are involved." … "And often when this does happen, this information ends up being recorded in works of - well, fiction."

Falling in Love with Hominids

Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring, Skin Folk) has been widely hailed as a highly significant voice in Caribbean and American fiction...

I have read this and now I have to go find more by Nalo! 

ARGUING WITH FRONTLINE STAFF ABOUT PROPER CATALOGING

"You are capable of anything because you are so bad at everything!" Everything Everywhere All At Once

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Ray Bradbury (via bookmania)

Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

Jackson Pearce

Book Geek Quote #757

(via j-k-reading)