Final drawing for Where the Wild Things Are. Pen and ink, watercolor.© Maurice Sendak, 1963, 1991, all rights reserved. Courtesy, Rosenbach Museum & Library
Maurice Sendak, illustrator and author of nearly 100 books and winner of ALA’s 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where The Wild Things Are, died May 8. He was 83. Creator of amazing nightmares, as the New York Times called Sendak, the artist’s works live on at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, where he contributed more than 10,000 of his illustrations and manuscripts since 1966, and was a trustee. He gained the title of honorary president in 2003.
From Pen to Publisher, an exhibit featuring three of his works, The Sign on Rosie’s Door (1960), Outside Over There (1981), and Brundibar (2003), currently on display at the museum, will be taken down in the near future for a legacy exhibt. The Sendak Gallery is free of charge today in his memory.
The Rosenbach Museum and Library, open to the public since 1954 and the former townhome of two Rosenbach brothers, houses works that reflect their life’s passions: rare books and fine art. A. S. W. Rosenbach gained fame as the developer of Harvard University’s Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library. He was hired to build the collection by the mother of Widener, a wealthy young bibliophile who sank with the Titanic in 1912.
Mixed Company: Libraries face the digital future ›
I spoke to some librarians and a library specialists from the Knight Foundation for PBS MediaShift about how libraries are facing Americans’ transition to reading digital books, especially given the country’s ongoing financial difficulties that have struck library budgets hard.
BookShift: What Is the Role of Libraries in the Age of E-Books and Digital Information?
3 weeks ago on May 08, 2012 at 05:58pm with 3 notes
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Sanctuary | Library.
2012
micro pens and gouache on tracing paper, laid over gouache painted mount board
Re-Inventing Public Libraries ›
Discussion about making public libraries open access and preserving library standards without bureaucracy.
I love the tone and approach of this video. It really brings a sense of professionalism and civility to the conversation. It’s just perfect. Well done Topeka Library and Shelf Renewal! Please consider signing the petition and then pass it on.
Emo National Digest. #libraries (Taken with Instagram at Laurier Library)
There was one thing that all the speakers agreed upon at the debate – even if libraries are obsolete, librarians aren’t. Rather than dividing our time and effort on compensating for an inadequate educational system, or inequalities in the market place, we should free up our brilliant librarians to work within these organizations to make the institutions better. Why take amazing information professionals and saddle them with leaky roofs, security at the door, and maintaining physical artifacts in often duplicative collections just waiting to be digitized? We see this at the Cushing Academy, a boarding school in Massachusetts that made the press when they significantly downsized the physical collection of the library. They did so at the same time they hired more librarians. Close the library and hire more librarians.
New York Public Library, Grand Stair - T. Scott Carlisle
(via librarienne)
conducting a little research in the library (Taken with Instagram at Dallas Museum of Art)
Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available ›
Bibliographers, rejoice!
Catálogo de tarjetas, todavía sobrevives…
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is the great equalizer.
1 month ago on April 24, 2012 at 10:00am with 177 notes
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Harvard Library to faculty: we're going broke unless you go open access - Boing Boing ›
“Harvard Library’s Faculty Advisory Council is telling faculty that it’s financially ‘untenable’ for the university to keep on paying extortionate access fees for academic journals. It’s suggesting that faculty make their research publicly available, switch to publishing in open access journals and consider resigning from the boards of journals that don’t allow open access.”
