Truly inspirational photos and text. Thanks to photographer Kyle Cassidy who embedded himself in the ALA Midwinter Meeting in January, and set up a makeshift studio, we have a nice collection of librarian photos. Deepest appreciation to the librarians who took the moment to sit for a portrait. Do they fit your image of today’s librarians? Steampunk all the way I say!
This is what a librarian looks like
Slate: Behold the Photo Blog, Feb. 11
I love articles that focus on creatively incorporating books and/or bookish themes into functional, whimsical design. At the very least, they can be conversation starters. The post, 22 Things that Belong in Every Bookworm’s Dream Home (October 2013), is sure to please.
Just for fun: Consider constructing one of the featured seating options to double as a workstation for your home office and maybe even your library/media center.
This post is for our readers born and raised in the land of 10,000 (+) lakes and others that have merely migrated here from somewhere warmer. This week we look back at highlights from Minnesota’s eclectic and somewhat eccentric past.
Click here, just for fun, to see a list of the top 21 Things Minnesotans Are Too Nice To Brag About compiled by Buzzfeed.
Tattoos have been in existence for centuries, connecting to most cultures across the globe. Today, in the United States, tattoos and the art of tattooing has become extremely fashionable. The images and thoughts they portray are akin to finger prints-unique, customized and relatively permanent.
Just for fun this week, CMLE links it’s members to images of 50 Incredible Tattoos Inspired by Books (link).
Help us add collections to Minnesota Reflections
The Minnesota Digital Library will accept applications for digitization projects until March 28, 2008. You may submit your applications anytime before then. Projects are to digitize original photos, negatives, artwork, letters, journals, documents and maps.We spend our grant dollars to do the digitization work. Contributing organizations choose the projects and complete applications. Once our digitization work is complete, the contributors then fill in an Excel spreadsheet with information on each item (metadata work).Any organization that holds historic objects and is interested in doing a project should contact Marian Rengel, Minnesota Digital Library outreach coordinator, very soon to talk over the details. (mrrengel@stcloudstate.edu; 320-308-5625)In Rounds 1 and 2, conducted since August, the MDL committed to digitizing 1,690 photos, 18,770 document pages, and 1,009 maps. These projects, along with transcriptions for many of the documents, will spend 80 percent of our grant dollars. We still have ample funding for large and small projects.Our call for project proposals, which describes what we are looking for this year and which contains the application, is available at
http://www.mndigital.org/news_events/news_events.htm#phase4proposals
Marian Rengel
Outreach Coordinator
Minnesota Digital Library Coalition
St. Cloud State University
Office (320) 308-5625
Fax (320) 308-4778 (shared)Visit the Minnesota Digital Library’s collection site at http://reflections.mndigital.org/ and our home at http://www.mndigital.org/