The LRC is Key

"Facilitating learning + creating community" That's is why Google can't undermine "the roots of librarianship" chicagotribune.com/classified/job…

This town is coming like a Goat's Town.

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@ketaminecromwel @insufficentfund Good shout!

@insufficentfund If you’re still in Paris and are looking for something which actually is what you imagined Shakespeare and Co. To be check out the Abbey Bookshop on rue de la Parcheminerie

I am positively shocked at how much the Paris Shakespeare & Company sucks. Gigantic sprawls of YA and a little pity corner dedicated to "Classics" which are mostly those gaudy Penguin Clothbound editions.

Had a version of this last year when Blurry, Pixelated Emil Cioran showed up. Amazon is actively polluting the book market at this point.

This and another disappeared from our village churchyard on Salisbury Plain a few years ago. Hitherto thought to be no photo record, until this discovered recently. Please repost. It’s just possible that…

If you can carry it on to the beach you can carry it off

THIS MAKES ME SO ANGRYーsending a postcard/letter to Europe is now £3.60!! From childhood my most important relationships are penpals- why is @RoyalMail ruining this special experience- NO ONE can afford to send letters anymore! its so important! I could scream!

I hear there's a large global "strategic advisory and communications consultancy", trying to sucky up to journalists by enticing them to do a 45 minute online interview to help "develop a broad understanding of the perspectives and expectations of key stakeholders in relation to the water sector", and all in exchange for a £100 donation to charity. No journalist in their right mind of course would ever have anything to do with it but tell you what, make it a £5,000 donation to a charity of your choosing and I'll happily give you 45 minutes of my time. Whadda ya think @SouthWestWater? x.com/i/status/15871…

I don't often comment on the abundant fake #agathachristie signatures that show up - but when the book was published in 2005 (29 yrs after she died) & the auction house states its been verified for authenticity & value it at $4,000-$8,000 it's too much to pass up! #FakeSignature

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C’est donc, sans réelle surprise, un « coffeeshop » qui va remplacer la librairie Fontaine rue de Sèvres. A pleurer…

DANS SA LIBRAIRIE, ON NE VENDAIT AUCUN LIVRE La fermeture de « Libri Liberi », à Bologne, consécutive au décès d’Anna Hilbe, suscite une vive inquiétude parmi ses habitués. Fondatrice du lieu, cette ancienne enseignante avait conçu une librairie qui ne reposait point sur la vente, mais sur le don. Les livres y circulaient en toute liberté : chacun pouvait en déposer, les consulter ou repartir simplement avec quelques ouvrages. Cette gratuité faisait de l’adresse un espace de confiance, radicalement distinct d’une librairie d’occasion classique. Issue d’un parcours étroitement lié au féminisme bolonais, cette initiative prolongeait un engagement à la fois culturel et social. Inspirée par des expériences observées à Baltimore et à Madrid, Anna Hilbe avait créé une belle librairie profondément utile. La règle limitant à trois le nombre de livres emportés simultanément suffisait à préserver l’équilibre communautaire. Sur la devanture désormais close, les messages d’adieu se multiplient, témoignant autant de la gratitude que de la crainte de voir disparaître ce modèle rare. « Libri Liberi » incarnait une idée simple et forte : le livre comme bien commun du quartier. actualitte.com/article/130919…

I need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry. Do your thing internet. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7626…

You know what would be really handy to open this…

Today Left - £21.00kg Co-op asparagus picked by a Peruvian hand and flown in from the Southern Hemisphere. I left it in there. Right - £9.20kg Hildred’s pick your own down the road, picked using my own hands, fresh and eaten in under an hour from the field @coopuk

The kerning on this street sign is hurting my eyes.

I never did any of this and I want to hide under a desk.

@PhilipHensher Struggling to find that specific cover - which edition is shown here?

It's here.

@John_Barach I still love pulling out the bonus story details that you can find in Ardizzone's illustrations.

What children's books used to be like. (From 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑇𝑖𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑎 𝐶𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛, by the great Edward Ardizzone.)

Larkin’s father died on 26 March 1948. A week the following Sunday it snowed in Warwick. This beautiful elegy was never printed in the poet’s lifetime and yet, arguably, it is his first great poem.