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"#Serendipity is generally defined as the accidental discovery of something valuable while searching for something else. It’s also a hotly contested component of the library research process: is it a failure of #library systems or facilitated by the physical design of libraries, the cataloging record, or the discovery layer?" 😎
"Magic, Serendipity, Discovery, and the Poetry Machine" @ The Journal of Creative Library Practice creativelibrarypractice.org/20

The Journal of Creative Library Practice · Magic, Serendipity, Discovery, and the Poetry MachineJoshua Finnell Associate University Librarian Director of Research & Scholarly Initiatives Colgate University A Brief History of Vending Machines The Hellenistic Age is not often considered a g…

I made this yesterday at a class at the local library in stone carving. My first attempt! Why does my #library host stone carving? Because awsome and because #Indiana #limestone. Did I mention this was free Free FREE!?

I know. The design is basic-ass: Robert Indiana with a heart twist. But you should know I had my reasons (heirloom stolen by evil landlord reasons).

Hiring Librarians Podcast S02b E13: Talkin Union with Jaime Taylor

We’re back!

After an unintentionally long break, we’re back. Let’s consider this Season 2b.

This episode my guest is Jaime Taylor. Jaime is a contributing person-who-hires-library-workers on the Further Questions feature here on Hiring Librarians (which returns tomorrow), the Discovery & Resource Management Systems Coordinator at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts, a proud union member, AND a coordinator of library staff working in THREE different unions. On this episode of the hiring librarians podcast, we’re talking about unions, hiring, getting hired, and what exactly systems librarians do anyway. I hope you enjoy and I’d love to hear your thoughts on the topic.

An AI-generated and not completely error free transcript is here.

Speaking of links, in this episode we talk about:

This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube music and other various podcasting sites (let me know if you can’t find it on your preferred platform).

I’d love to hear your requests or other feedback for moving forward. And please do reach out if you want to be a guest!

... er nannte sich Friedensreich #Hundertwasser Regentag Dunkelbunt.
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Welcher Tag könnte besser geeignet sein für diese erfreuliche #Pressemitteilung der @bsbmuenchen zum Erwerb eines seiner zentralen Werke für die Libri Selecti?

bsb-muenchen.de/article/bayeri

Dazu habe ich eben auch einen kleinen Artikel im #Künstlerbuch.Blog freigeschaltet: bookarts.hypotheses.org/3802

IDW Boldly Goes Into a New Star Trek Era | Comic-Con 2025 – IGN

Star Trek: Red ShirtsStrange New WorldsVoyager

IDW Boldly Goes Into a New Star Trek Era | SDCC 2025 – IGN

Learn more about the sweeping changes to the Star Trek line happening this summer.

By Jesse Schedeen, Updated: Jul 23, 2025 9:46 am, Posted: Jul 22, 2025 1:26 pm

IDW Publishing recently wrapped up a monumental era of the Star Trek publishing line with the Lore War crossover, which capped off Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing’s multi-year run on the flagship Star Trek series. But that’s hardly the end of IDW’s Star Trek line. The company is in the midst of launching no fewer than four new Star Trek books, each set in a different era of the franchise timeline and focusing on a different cast of characters.

Among these new titles is Kelly and Lanzing’s Star Trek: The Last Starship, a book that resurrects Captain James T. Kirk in the bleak 31st Century era known as The Burn. There’s also Star Trek: Red Shirts, a TOS-era book about those unluckiest of Starfleet members. The lineup is rounded out by two series spinning directly out of the events of the Star Trek shows, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The Seeds of Salvation and Star Trek: Voyager – Homecoming.

To get a better idea of what’s coming for this ambitious Star Trek relaunch, IGN spoke with group editor Heather Antos and the writers of all four titles – Kelly, Lanzing, Red Shirts’ Christopher Cantwell, The Seeds of Salvation’s Robbie Thompson, and Homecoming’s Susan and Tilly Bridges. Read on to learn more about these new stories and why there’s going to be a Trek comic for fans of all types this summer.

The Best Star Trek Series of the Modern Era (and the Worst)

Making Star Trek’s 60 Years of Continuity Accessible

The Star Trek franchise is about to celebrate its 60th birthday soon. At this point, the Trek timeline is one of the most sprawling in all of popular culture, comprising numerous shows, over a dozen films, and countless comics, novels, and video games. It’s enough to wonder how a newcomer is supposed to dive into the massive universe nowadays. But the writers make it clear that each book is designed with accessibility firmly in mind, whether it’s telling a standalone story with a new cast (like The Last Starship and Red Shirts) or building directly on one of the Trek shows (like The Seeds of Salvation and Homecoming).

“One of the neat things [about The Last Starship] is we are separating ourselves by time so much from the Star Trek that people know,” Kelly tells IGN. “We’re able to approach these things from a fresh perspective and assume that you don’t have all these years of context, because frankly, our characters don’t necessarily have all these years of context. So we are very specifically trying to lens in on bringing in, if you are a fan of science fiction in general, if you love Battlestar Galactica, come play with us, right, because that’s the broader scope that we’re really hoping to welcome to Star Trek so then they can all fall in love with combadges and meeps.”

Continue/Read Original Article Here: IDW Boldly Goes Into a New Star Trek Era | Comic-Con 2025 – IGN

#2025 #America #ComicCon #Film #Films #IGN #Libraries #Library #Movies #Reading #Science #ScienceFiction #SDCC #StarTrek #Technology #Television #UnitedStates

Bibliothèque du Centre Médical Universitaire, Genève.

The first 4 stages of the massive Geneva university hospital project were designed by Addor & Julliard in 1958. Construction lasted between 1973 and 1987, with occupation starting in 1982.

The medical library pictured here was among this first wave of construction. After a long hiatus due to government spending freezes, the project finally ended in 2016.

📷: Fuji X-T20 + XF14mm f/2.8 R
#library #LibraryArchitecture #architecture

If you love books or history, and are visiting London, then the British Library is a must see. Not only is entry free, but there's some amazing pieces of historic literature on exhibition.

It includes things like an original first edition copy of Shakespeare's plays, a letter from Jane Austen to her sister; Oscar Wilde's handwritten draft of The Importance of Being Earnest; the handwritten draft of Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition sketch; John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for Strawberry Fields Forever; and a little document called the Magna Carta.

And that's just some of the documents, books, manuscripts, and more on display.

#library #book #books #history #museum #museums #Beatles #TheBeatles #literature #Shakespeare #JohnLennon #MontyPython #OscarWilde #London

5 Museums And Organizations With Free Art For Your Home via House Digest [Shared]

One way to save money while choosing art for your home is to download free images before printing them out yourself. All you need to do from there is potentially frame your new art and put it in the perfect room where it might become one of your favorite pieces. In order to find a wide range of possibilities, you can simply check out the various museums, universities, libraries, and other organizations that have made some of the pieces in their collections free to use. Take time to browse the online assortments and you can find paintings, photographs, illustrations, and much more. You can also opt for work by van Gogh, Renoir, Cassatt, Mondrian, Monet, and other notable artists.

If that's piqued your interest, then take a look at the following creative collections with free art you can use in your home.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/07/21

#art#history#free

My #littlefreelibrary in #Ottawa is highly successful. People love it, kids want to see it close up. In the last few years, hundreds of books have gone through it. I remove books that sit there too long and once in a while I have to remind people to also bring books, not take only. I rarely see books being returned. I put effort in keeping it clean and neat bc so many little libraries I check are just a dusty mess. Also having great convo’s with people I never met before. #libraries #library

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 by: Sangu Mandanna

As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic. And, she’s used to follow the rules...with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos "pretending" to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously.

#author #reading #library #books #witches
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