A dangerous yet sweetly-scented lunch: “Death by Perfume” at the Paul Mellon Centre

My colleague Christina at Sotheby’s Institute of Art lives a research-y life drenched in perfume,…

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Voices for the Library: Twitter belongs to me…

… for a week, anyway.

Voices for the Library

World domination needs must start small. Starting on…

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Reblogged from Library Sherpa:

Saturday, May 18 received the most votes for our next “Librarians Live-Tweeting a Movie” session.  (See original post here.)

Now…what movie is deserving of the snark Tweeted by librarians?  VOTE!

Here are the suggestions…

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Reblogged from : The text: “One child is holding something that’s been banned in America to protect… http://wp.me/s1SKqI-1995

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The text: “One child is holding something that’s been banned in America to protect them. Guess which one?”

Some background: The Charles Perrault version of Little Red Riding Hood, the one that was banned by two California school…

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The strange and wonderful world of collectors

Alexander Thistlewhaite’s bookplate, Fellows’ Library, Winchester College (image via Birmingham…

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Reblogged from A Monument of Fame:

The latest issue of The Spectator(13 April 2013) contains a long article by Professor James Carley about a remarkable group of books which has miraculously found its way back to Lambeth Palace Library after many decades.

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Reblogged from Echoes from the Vault:

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I didn’t intend to write about the gradual at all for this post, I just happened to be looking at it one day when it was out for Tom Wilkinsonthe chapel organist to see. He is going to conduct the chapel choir in…

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Reblogged from University of Glasgow Library:

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Our beautifully preserved copy of the anonymous Fiore novello estratto dalla Bibbiais one of those satisfying books where we can (unusually!) trace the provenance back to the 15th century. Its decorated opening…

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Index of Christian Art Launches new Byzantine resource

When Lois Drewer (former Research Scholar in the Index of Christian Art in Princeton University) died she left behind a number of unpublished book-length manuscripts. Among these…

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“The time has come, … to talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings.”

Much to ponder (John William Waterhouse, “The Crystal Ball, 1902)

It’s five hours and thirty five…

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