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Spanish town set to spend subsidy on books instead of bullfights
In the small Spanish town of Villafranca de los Caballeros, bulls are taking a back seat to books. For more than a decade, the small town 80 miles south of Madrid has celebrated its local fiesta with a bullfight. But the tradition could end this year, after the council said it would direct its annual subsidy for the bullfight towards books and school supplies for the town’s students.
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Chronicles of disaster: Hiroshima in the Yale University Library archives
On Aug. 6, 1945, an atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima, destroying the city and killing tens of thousands of people. Three days later, a second bomb exploded over Nagasaki. Yale community members pl
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Macaulay Library
We invite you to explore the world's largest archive of wildlife sounds and videos. Our mission: To collect, preserve, and facilitate the use of wildlife recordings for science, education, conservation, and the arts.
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How to access a million stunning, copyright-free antique illustrations from the British Library
The 17th- through 19th-century images have been used on rugs, album covers, gift tags, a mapping project, and an art installation at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, among other things.
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Oracle bones and unseen beauty: wonders of priceless Chinese collection now online
A banknote from 1380 that threatens decapitation, a set of 17th-century prints so delicate they had never been opened, and 3000-year-old ‘oracle bones’ are now freely available for the world to view on the Cambridge Digital Library.
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Librarian’s trips abroad, posh hotels all paid for by James Madison Council
When James H. Billington retires, will the private club he founded to support the Library of Congress survive? By Peggy McGlone.
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Saving the Scream Queens: Why Yale University Library decided to preserve nearly 3,000 horror and exploitation movies on VHS
Even schlocky, straight-to-video horror and exploitation movies have historical value.
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What's Wrong With a Little Free Library?
Three years ago, The Los Angeles Times published a feel-good story on the Little Free Library movement. The idea is simple: A book lover puts a box or shelf or crate of books in their front yard. Neighbors browse, take one, and return later with a replacement. A 76-year-old in Sherman Oaks, California, felt that his little library, roughly the size of a dollhouse, "turned strangers into friends and a sometimes-impersonal neighborhood into a community...
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Diary of Life in Soviet Work Camp Online
A teenager’s diary documenting life in a Soviet labor camp more than 70 years ago is now available for the public to read, thanks to a digital preservation project by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library
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The Most Popular Books in U.S. Public Libraries, Mapped by City
The Girl on the Train vs. Go Set a Watchman.
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First Library to Support Tor Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email
A library in a small New Hampshire town started to help Internet users around the world surf anonymously using Tor. Until the Department of Homeland Security raised a red flag.
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The British Library Puts Over 1,000,000 Images in the Public Domain: A Deeper Dive Into the Collection
The British Library’s Flickr Commons project presents over 1,000,000 images from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Microsoft digitized the books represented here, and then donated them to the Library for release into the Public Domain.
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The Trouble With Digitizing History
Driving through the Dutch countryside near the town of Hilversum, I have an overwhelming feeling that the surrounding water will wash out the road, given that my car is almost level with it. So it’s surprising that the Netherlands’ main audiovisual archives at the Sound and Vision Institute reside in a multilevel underground structure here, ostensibly below sea level. Sound and Vision, together with two other national institutions, finished digitizing the bulk of the...
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Fictional Libraries: Images Make Information Inaccessible
All of the books in the world still exist, yet are just out of reach, locked up in an impenetrable fortress or stacked so high we can’t hope to reach them, in this dystopian vision by Shanghai-base...
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No Library For You: French Authorities Threatening To Close An App That Lets People Share Physical Books
EFF's Parker Higgins recently tweeted a question detailing the truly messed up state of copyright law. What do you think would happen if someone invented the public library today? Can you even imagine trying to invent public libraries in 2015?
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26 Of The World’s Most Extraordinary Libraries That Every Book Worm Will Love
This list covers the most impressive old and new libraries around the world!
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OCLC prints last library catalog cards
OCLC printed its last library catalog cards today, officially closing the book on what was once a familiar resource for generations of information seekers who now use computer catalogs and online search engines to access library collections around the world.
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Kansas City, Toronto libraries are engaged in a war of words on Twitter
You never know how playoff excitement is going to affect people. Kansas City is caught up in Royals fever as the postseason run has taken the team within a game of the World Series. The Kansas City library is engaged in a fun Twitter battle with the Toronto library. The KC library fired the opening salvo after the Royals won 14-2 in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series...
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The World’s Most Beautiful Library Is In Prague, Czech Republic
The Klementinum library, a beautiful example of Baroque architecture, was first opened in 1722 as part of the Jesuit university, and houses over 20,000 books. It was voted as one of the most beautiful and majestic libraries in the world by our readers! The ceiling frescoes were painted by Jan Hiebl. In 1781, director Karel Rafael Ungar established Biblioteca Nationalis, a collection of Czech language literature.
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What Libraries Can (Still) Do
Is the library, storehouse and lender of books, as anachronistic as the record store, the telephone booth, and the Playboy centerfold?
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