“I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.”
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crimereads.com crimereads.com
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www.instagram.com www.instagram.com
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www.claudiaserrato.net www.claudiaserrato.net
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Claudia Serrato<br /> https://www.claudiaserrato.net/
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- Feb 2024
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Local file Local file
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, one of the reasons that the New York Public Library had toclose its public catalog was that the public was destroying it. TheHetty Green cards disappeared. Someone calling himself Cosmoswas periodically making o with all the cards for Mein Kampf. Cardsfor two Dante manuscripts were stolen: not the manuscripts, thecards for the manuscripts.
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The New York Public Library, ahead of the game, renovated theentire ten-million-card catalog of its Research Libraries between1977 and 1980, micro lmed it, and threw it out.
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www.lapl.org www.lapl.org
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The smallest collection of card catalogs is near the librarian’s information desk in the Social Science/Philosophy/Religion department on lower level three. It is rarely used and usually only by librarians. It contains hundreds of cards that reflect some of the most commonly asked questions of the department librarians. Most of the departments on the lower levels have similar small collections. Card catalog behind the reference desk on lower level three, photo credit: Tina Lernø
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The surname Index for the library’s genealogy includes 315 drawers of about 750 cards each for a total of more than 236,250 cards patrons can use when they visit the History/Map/Travel section, photo credit: Diana Rosen
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Owners Paddy Calistro and Scott McAuley donated their publishing company Angel City Press to the Los Angeles Public Library in 2024.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/la-public-library-book-publisher.html
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- Oct 2023
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extras.overdrive.com extras.overdrive.com
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lapl.org lapl.org
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ArtistWorks provides world-class instruction for the most popular string and band instruments through self-paced video lessons from professional musicians.
Under "Extras" in the Libby app: https://libbyapp.com
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- Jun 2023
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www.cityofpasadena.net www.cityofpasadena.net
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It makes me happy to see all the fantastic programming going on at my local libraries.
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- Mar 2023
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www.consumerreports.org www.consumerreports.org
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https://www.consumerreports.org/
Los Angeles Public Library Proxy: https://laplca.patronpoint.com/r/ffaea26f523272f96d2969d76?ct=YTo1OntzOjY6InNvdXJjZSI7YToyOntpOjA7czo1OiJlbWFpbCI7aToxO2k6MjQzO31zOjU6ImVtYWlsIjtpOjI0MztzOjQ6InN0YXQiO3M6MjI6IjYzZmZiYzM1Nzk5ZmQ0MTg1OTc2MjYiO3M6NDoibGVhZCI7czo2OiIyMzE2MDUiO3M6NzoiY2hhbm5lbCI7YToxOntzOjU6ImVtYWlsIjtpOjI0Mzt9fQ%3D%3D&
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- Dec 2022
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www.robinsloan.com www.robinsloan.com
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I want to insist on an amateur internet; a garage internet; a public library internet; a kitchen table internet.
Social media should be comprised of people from end to end. Corporate interests inserted into the process can only serve to dehumanize the system.
Robin Sloan is in the same camp as Greg McVerry and I.
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- Nov 2022
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Genealogy Garage: Researching at the Huntington Library
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/0f2j2K6JWGg" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>- Julie Huffman jhuffman@lapl.org (host)
- Stephanie Arias
- Anne Blecksmith
- Li Wei Yang
- Clay Stalls cstalls@huntington.org
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- Early California Population Project: Database of Baptism, Marriage, and Burial Records from California Missions
- Family Histories: A guide to resources for family history research at The Huntington Library
Huntington Library
Visit checklist
- Create a library account via Aeon: https://aeon.huntington.org
- Request rare materials via Aeon: https://researchguides.huntington.org/aeon
- Review Reading Room policies and Conditions of Use: https://researchguides.huntington.org/usingthelibrary/usingthelibrary
- Schedule an appointment: https://huntingtonlibrary.libcal.com
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- Oct 2022
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link.springer.com link.springer.com
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Sisto, M.C. Publishing and Library E-Lending: An Analysis of the Decade Before Covid-19. Pub Res Q 38, 405–422 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-022-09880-7
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archive.org archive.org
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Portion of a hand-written card file listing manuscripts, documents, and portraits contained in the Boston Public Library's Chamberlain Collection of Autographs. Cards are organized by last name of the creator or subject. Names of persons who have signed documents are also listed.
https://archive.org/details/chamberlain-card-file.-kem-mur/mode/2up
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- Jan 2022
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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Sit in your local coffee shop, and your laptop can tell you a lot. If you want deeper, more local knowledge, you will have to take the narrower path that leads between the lions and up the stairs.
Grafton cleverly brings us back to his beginning with the New York Library, whose entrance famously has a set of stairs flanked by two majestic lions.
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- Mar 2021
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seattle.bibliocommons.com seattle.bibliocommons.com
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The Law of Innocence
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search.trl.org search.trl.org
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No. 6 collaborations project [sound recording]
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IMSLP stands for International Music Score Library Project and started on February 16, 2006. It is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores based on the wiki principle; it is also more than that. Users can exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's composition; this makes IMSLP an ever-growing musical community of music lovers for music lovers.
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www.openmusicarchive.org www.openmusicarchive.org
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The Open Music Archive aims to gather together information about and recordings of public domain music. This is music whose copyright has expired. This music can be used by anyone for any purpose.
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- Jan 2016
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digitalcollections.nypl.org digitalcollections.nypl.org
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albums produced between 1908 and 1913 by developers and the real estate industry to entice potential middle and upper class tenants to New York City’s “principal high class apartment houses,” declares one volume’s subtitle. Each featured apartment house is briefly described, and illustrated with an exterior photograph and one or more floor plans.
Mauricio Geraldo made a game out of the floor plans.<br> http://publicdomain.nypl.org/mansion-maniac/<br> http://github.com/nypl-publicdomain/mansion-maniac
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- Jul 2015
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www.openculture.com www.openculture.com