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Monday, April 25, 2016

"Badass Librarians of Timbuktu"

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You just really have to read this story from NPR! It is an interview with the author of a book about librarians in Timbuktu who rescued tho...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

"Former lives"

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The building Drake Library is in was built expressly to be a library, but some library buildings had other uses before becoming home to a li...
Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Newly discovered "island"

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A few days ago this blogger walked by a couple of students on the ground floor who were studying the Anglo Saxon epic Beowulf together. No...
Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Your surname!

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Here's an interesting site, a genealogy site with data and mapping for surnames. Give it a try, see how common your name is, where most...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Library History

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Library history, probably not a topic on a lot of people's minds, but think about it: lots of us use libraries, spend many hours in th...
Monday, January 25, 2016

"Bound journals"

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Let's start the new semester off with something a little old, "bound journals." You won't have to use these the way peop...
Friday, January 22, 2016

A library ghost cam?

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This is interesting about the public library in Indiana with a "ghost cam," especially with an intern coming to the Rose Archiv...
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We use this blog to post about both our library and the wider world of libraries and information resources. We would love to hear from you, feel free to post a comment Our blogger goes under the cyber identity of William Lennon. He was a science professor here 1869-1911, and took care of the library for part of that time. Now in his retirement we have him handling this blog for us ;-)
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