More and more of our culture now exists only in digital form … but libraries can’t preserve what they don’t own. As books 📚, music 🎵, film 🎞️, and news 📰 shift from ownership to licensing, long-term ac…
#OTD in 1930 the First FIFA World Cup Kicks Off Soccer, or association football, as it is known throughout much of the world, has been an Olympic sport since 1900. In 1930, FIFA—soccer's international…
Rereading the classics: Why John Steinbeck’s ‘East of Eden’ has always been controversial The author openly advocates a need to ‘fight against any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroy…
‘Nearly Erased From History’: This Famous Sculpture Of Cleopatra Disappeared For Over 100 Years. It Was Being Used As The Gravestone Of A Horse By Braden Bjella Edmonia Lewis' 1876 sculpture The Death…
Are we living through the end of reading? https://www.npr.org/2026/07/11/nx-s1-5886268/are-we-living-through-the-end-of-reading #books #reading
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The Satire and Style of Vanity Fair is as Relevant as Ever Roshan Sethi on William Makepeace Thackeray’s Famous Novel https://lithub.com/the-satire-and-style-ofvanity-fair-is-as-relevant-as-ever/?utm_…
Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), mathematician, physicist & translator By Marie Lebert https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/translators-marie-lebert-contributor/emilie-du-chatelet-mathematician-physicis…
What Is The Meaning Of Humpty Dumpty? Inside The Origins Of The Popular Nursery Rhyme, From Rude Slang Words To King Richard III By Kaleena Fraga The meaning of Humpty Dumpty has remained mysterious f…
Up to 60% of medieval texts and 95% of manuscripts have vanished, study finds by Dario Radley Many stories from the Middle Ages never reached the present. A new study suggests the loss was far greater…
🍲 A recipe isn’t the whole story of a cookbook. The grease stains, penciled-in adjustments, and clippings tucked between pages… that’s the history we lose when culture becomes just another online comm…
How Does Foucault’s Pendulum Prove the Earth Rotates? This elegant scientific demonstration has been delighting everyday people for nearly 200 years by Alicia Ault (from the archives) https://www.smit…
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Hello Z-Librarians, Today, we're ready to share some updates! We’ve added automatic saving of your uploads to My Library, a handy uploads filter, and improved interest profiles (up to 20 tags). Mirror…
☀️ Summers fade. Home movies help them live on. Time warp back to a 1958 backyard pool party where the whole family's having summer fun. 🏊♀️ 👙🩲 Moments like these weren't meant for history books, yet the…
⚽🕹️ The first official World Cup computer game was a fiasco. WORLD CUP CARNIVAL: MEXICO '86 was little more than a lightly tweaked re-release of Artic Computing's World Cup Football, repackaged to cash…
Rudyard Kipling’s Buddhism By Livia Gershon Long read as an imperial novel, Kim also reflects Britain’s changing ideas about Buddhist thought and spiritual practice. https://daily.jstor.org/rudyard-ki…
5 Important Characters in the Odyssey That Shape the Story Following the Trojan War, Odysseus journeys home in the Odyssey. Five characters bring to life the vivid world that challenged and ultimately…
Reading for pleasure builds empathy in children, but fewer kids are picking up books just for the fun of it by William Dee Nichols and Michelle Kearney https://theconversation.com/reading-for-pleasure…
The Social Realism of Elizabeth Gaskell Who Went Against Outworn Victorian Values Once pigeonholed as “Mrs Gaskell,” a representative of outworn Victorian values, Elizabeth Gaskell is a more radical w…
