katiemariefunk: I came into work today to find this article emailed from my manager: 25 Vintage Photos of Librarians Being Awesome. Passing on the Monday excellence. The above is via NYPL Digital Gallery.

katiemariefunk:

I came into work today to find this article emailed from my manager: 25 Vintage Photos of Librarians Being Awesome. Passing on the Monday excellence.

The above is via NYPL Digital Gallery.

3 weeks ago

Good For Business

Arlington Public Library offers a host of tools and resources for small businesses, nonprofits and owners-to-be.

All you need is your dream. We’ll help you fill in the blanks.

For more than ten years now, the Library has worked in partnership with Arlington Economic Development’s BizLaunch initiative, hosting workshops, networking opportunities and consulting sessions.

The Library is also part of the Arlington Nonprofit Assistance Network, featuring a unique core collection of online directories and publications aimed at helping you help others.

Add 24/7 online research portals, demographics data, business plan templates, grants options and authoritative business librarian assistance and you have the makings for your next success. All free to the user. 

Please note: the Business Services Librarian offers free business research assistance by appointment only. Email AFox@arlingtonva.us for more information.

Learn more about Library Small Business and Nonprofit resources.

3 weeks ago
todaysdocument: What’s up, Doc? 75 years ago a prototypical “Wascally Wabbit” debuted in Porky’s Hare Hunt, although Bugs Bunny would not make his first official appearance in a more familiar form until 1940. Footage from “Bond Rally, 1941.” Excerpted from Uncle Sam Speaks, ca. 1987, a compilation of U.S. savings bond and stamp promotions by celebrities used in a National Archives and Records Administration exhibit entitled “Uncle Sam Speaks: Posters and Broadsides.” (Image of Bugs Bunny copyrighted by Warner Bros.)

todaysdocument:

What’s up, Doc?

75 years ago a prototypical “Wascally Wabbit” debuted in Porky’s Hare Hunt, although Bugs Bunny would not make his first official appearance in a more familiar form until 1940.

Footage from “Bond Rally, 1941.” Excerpted from Uncle Sam Speaks, ca. 1987, a compilation of U.S. savings bond and stamp promotions by celebrities used in a National Archives and Records Administration exhibit entitled “Uncle Sam Speaks: Posters and Broadsides.”

(Image of Bugs Bunny copyrighted by Warner Bros.)

3 weeks ago

Celebrate National Poetry Month - Vote Now for Your Favorite Spine Poem!

Vote Online or In Person, April 22 – 30

Tumblr: You can heart favorite poems on tumblr at APLSpinePoetry2013.tumblr.

Pinterest: You can like poems on pinterest at ArlingtonVALib/Vote-Now-Spine-Poetry-Contest-2013.

Facebook: You can like poems on Facebook at Facebook.com/ArlingtonVAPublicLibrary.

Comment: You can look at the poems on tumblr, facebook or pinterest, then post your vote here in the comments.

Or vote in person at Poetry Open Mic Night April 30 at the Aurora Hills Branch Library.

Final prize winners will be chosen by our Guest Judges, author Evan Smith Rakoff and artist Chandi Kelley, after April 30.

April is National Poetry Month.

Click here for The Rules.

4 weeks ago
writersrelief: Today we celebrate a man who needs no introduction—Mr. William Shakespeare.   Which stage, screen, or literary interpretation of the Bard’s works is your favorite?

writersrelief:

Today we celebrate a man who needs no introduction—Mr. William Shakespeare.

 

Which stage, screen, or literary interpretation of the Bard’s works is your favorite?

4 weeks ago

On Hallowed Ground

aplspinepoetry2013:

On Hallowed Ground

By Kim O’Connell

On hallowed ground
Paving over the past
A fierce discontent

4 weeks ago

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1 month ago

Did We Mention The Spring Book Sale Was Coming Up?

APRIL 25 - 28 at CENTRAL LIBRARY

Please hold off on dropping off book sale donations

at Central Library through May 10. Thank you.

1 month ago

Share Haiku at Aurora Hills

April is National Poetry Month and the Aurora Hills Branch Library is celebrating with a haiku wall – drop by and add your words of poetic wisdom.

1 month ago

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1 month ago

Friends of the Library Spring Book Sale

APRIL 25th - 28th

The mission of The Friends of the Library is to promote the value of Arlington Public Library through their generous support of programming, services and collections.

The Friends hold two mammoth book sales annually (spring and fall), as well as smaller year-round sales at all library locations.

1 month ago

actegratuit:

Octavio, 2007

Crystallized handmade chenille stem letters, monofilament

Visual depiction of the poem Sight and Touch (for Balthus) by Octavio Paz. 

Mirror Matter - MOCA Cleveland, Ohio

Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Series

Olga Ziemska

(via yahighway)

1 month ago

Five Great Geography Web Sites For Kids

Whether you’re traveling near or far, or just staying put and exploring your neighborhood, check out these cool sites to learn about the world around you:

  • Global Trek is a great site if you’re traveling to another country, or if you just want to travel virtually and learn about other places and cultures.
  • Kids Geo is a fun, online geography textbook written for kids.
  • 50 States.com provides fun facts and other information about all 50 states, as well as U.S. commonwealths and territories.
  • Geography for Kids offers facts, games, quizzes, experiments, videos, images and more.
  • National Geographic Kids is, of course, the go-to resource for all things geographic.

Have fun and safe travels, both virtual and physical! Then find more great websites for kids.

1 month ago

theparisreview:

From Robert Dawson and Josh Wallaert’s Public Library: An American Commons.

(via kathrynzickuhr)

1 month ago

(Source: falling-inlove-with-books)

1 month ago