Curiouser and Curiouser: What Caught Our Eyes Online this Week

“Curiouser and Curiouser!” cried Alice…
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Welcome to Chasing Reference’s weekly roundup of the curious articles and links that have caught our eye this week!

• Librarians share their philosophies of librarianship over at In the Library with the Lead Pipe.

• HathiTrust has collected articles and blogposts about the latest lawsuit win.

• Meet the finalists: SLJ talks to five National Book Award Finalists.

• The New York Times’ By the Book interview with J.K. Rowling.

• 25 unique-looking libraries from around the world.

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Curiouser and Curiouser: What Caught Our Eyes Online This Week

“Curiouser and Curiouser!” cried Alice…
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Welcome to Chasing Reference’s weekly roundup of the curious articles and links that have caught our eye this week!

• Fascinating photos of real life literary characters

• Choose a book by its cover: The Design Observer Group picks the 50 best covers of 2011

• Readers who remember this older Chasing Reference post on retractions may be interested to see a new study demonstrating that most journal retractions are due to errors, not fraud.

• Sci-fi and Fantasy authors’ insightful responses to book banning and censorship.

• Books and music: The 10 most mentioned songs in books

Curiouser and Curiouser: What Caught Our Eyes Online This Week

“Curiouser and Curiouser!” cried Alice…
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Welcome to Chasing Reference’s weekly roundup of the curious articles and links that have caught our eye this week!

• Good leaders learn what not to do.

• The current landscape of book discovery.

• The hot librarian stereotype has been around at least since the 1960’s.

• 10 Literary Authors who illustrated their own work.

Curiouser and Curiouser: What caught our eyes online this week

“Curiouser and Curiouser!” cried Alice…
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Welcome to Chasing Reference’s weekly roundup of the curious articles and links that have caught our eye this week!

• Junot Díaz geeks out over comics.

• It’s time for the National Book Festival! If you aren’t attending, follow the latest happenings from home.

• Tidy up your book collection with a pair of lovely bookends.

• The fascinating ECAR Study of Undergraduates and Technology found that students need technology training more than the latest technology.

Curiouser and Curiouser: What caught our eyes online this week

“Curiouser and Curiouser!” cried Alice…
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Welcome to Chasing Reference’s weekly roundup of the curious articles and links that have caught our eye this week!

• U.S. Public Libraries Weather the Storm

• A newly uncovered photo of Emily Dickinson was discovered in an Amherst attic.

• Librarian tattoos your mom would approve of.

• Art meets Google Street View and the results are unexpected.

Curiouser and Curiouser: What caught our eyes online this week

“Curiouser and Curiouser!” cried Alice…
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Welcome to Chasing Reference’s weekly roundup of the curious articles and links that have caught our eye this week!

• The Chronicle of Higher Education introduces its readers to CSI: Rare Book School. Where can we sign up?

• Who will inherit your iTunes library?

• Online book reviews for hire.

• Wise words from Jenica at Attempting Elegance: they’ll never know what we didn’t get done [this summer].

• A fascinating and interactive timeline celebrating the history of Banned Books Week.

Curiouser and Curiouser: What caught our eyes online this week

“Curiouser and Curiouser!” cried Alice…
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Welcome to Chasing Reference’s weekly roundup of the curious articles and links that have caught our eye this week!

• The font makes all the difference: Exploring font choice in Children’s Picture Books

• The other kind of cv: controlled vocabularies.

• What do earworms, man caves and copernicium have in common? They are all new words added to Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.

• Everyone wins: play an addictive game, and help the Dartmouth College archives improve the metadata in their image collections.  (Read more about the project here.)

• For first-year (traditional age) students, no memory of life before blue M&Ms – Beloit College just released its “Mindset List” for the class of 2016.

• An informative infographic explaining the importance of supporting your local library.

 

Curiouser and Curiouser: What caught our eyes online this week

“Curiouser and Curiouser!” cried Alice…
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Welcome to Chasing Reference’s weekly roundup of the curious articles and links that have caught our eye this week!

• The New Republic weighs in on the future of the library.

• Library vending machines and unicycles? These are just a few of the oddities my artist friend finds when she photographs libraries.

• Flavorwire collected a bunch of vintage library posters and gorgeous photos of European libraries.

• “Returning Veterans” as a Library of Congress Subject Heading? Uh-uh, nope. Learn about this decision and more at the LCSH Summary of Decisions page. It’s a website that you never knew you wanted to go to.

Curiouser and Curiouser: What caught our eyes online this week

“Curiouser and Curiouser!” cried Alice…
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Welcome to Chasing Reference’s weekly roundup of the curious articles and links that have caught our eye this week!

• NPR listeners pick the top 100 Young Adult books.
• Theodore Seuss Geisel worked in advertising before he wrote and illustrated children’s books.
• The trials and tribulations of autocorrect.
• Are Friday links not enough for you?  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian regularly posts articles related to higher education.

Curiouser and Curiouser: What caught our eyes online this week

“Curiouser and Curiouser!” cried Alice…
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Welcome to Chasing Reference’s weekly roundup of the curious articles and links that have caught our eye this week!

• Students like quiet libraries.

• Michael Levine-Clark advocates for libraries to replace interlibrary loan with temporary ebook leases.

• Exploring various models for providing ebook access over at In the Library with the Lead Pipe.

• Who’s the author?  The Scholarly Kitchen requests whole names on journal articles rather than initials.

• Are you a green librarian? A Providence-based startup called NuLabel wants label consumers–ahem, technical services–to consider the 1.2 million tons of waste created by the nonstick, nonrecyclable liners that we throw away after each use. When linerless labels hit the market, librarians will not only save the planet, they’ll also save money because liners cost more than labels to produce. Good design sticks around (ha ha…ha…).