under the bar at Ferris and Jack. #librarylove (at MileNorth, A Chicago Hotel)
This must be where they keep all the illegal moonshine and extra strong hooch—“For librarians only.”
(Source: likeplatetectonics)
You look like an owl. No! It’s cute. Because of your glasses. Not because you have brown and white feathers or anything.
— Library patron, to me.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
— Robert H. Schuller (via larmoyante)
Women of Library History: Clara Stanton Jones →
Submitted by Lorna Peterson, University at Buffalo. Image from “Mourning the Loss of Clara Stanton Jones,” Detroit Public Library.
Clara Stanton Jones, born May 14, 1913 and died September 30, 2012, was the first woman and first African American to lead the Detroit Public Library. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she died in Oakland, California at age 99. Her appointment as DPL library director was controversial. Two library board members quit in protest but she was supported by the United Auto Workers and a coalition of progressive businessmen. Her legacy with DPL was the delivering of services to nontraditional library users. With a bachelor degree from Spelman College earned in 1934, she completed the library science degree from the University of Michigan in 1938.
Libraries Changed My Life: Send us letters! →
image via flickr/tschiae - CC-BY
In addition to our e-mailbox, Libraries Changed My Life accepts letters and postcards. If you’ve always wanted to send a thank you note (or a love letter) to libraries, here is your chance. If you include a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE), we’ll…
Find something you’re passionate about, and keep tremendously interested in it.
— Julia Child (via thatkindofwoman)
(Source: theriverjordyn, via thatkindofwoman)
