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📚 100 years ago today, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends opened up a book to their enchanted Hundred Acre Wood. 🍯 🧸🐝🐰🐷 Read the full extent of their stories from a century ago at the Internet Archive. C…
#OTD in 1888, Katherine Mansfield is born. She "was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been publi…
📅 One week. For eight weeks, we've been showing you tools you can use to save, discover, contribute, and connect. On October 21, we're bringing those ideas together. 🏛️ Democracy's Library: Tools for P…
When Europe’s monastic libraries were looted, Britain’s richest book collectors went hunting The forgotten story of how Britain acquired Europe’s rarest books. by Kelsey Williams https://theconversati…
The 1600s pioneer who challenged earth's origins Some 400 years ago natural philosopher and writer John Aubrey wrote a huge book about Wiltshire's natural history but the ideas it contained were so ra…
"The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves." Let's celebrate, today is Ada Lovelace Day! Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, was a pioneerin…
“Saving Democracy, One Public Record at a Time” is coming Friday! 🏛️ As part of ALA Round Tables, Merrilee Proffitt & Kelly Doyle Kim will discuss Democracy’s Library and ATLAS, which preserve and prov…
How Kate Warne, America’s First Female Detective, Shaped Modern Investigation An undercover agent, a spy, and the first woman gumshoe, Kate Warne helped bust crime and save the Union. https://www.thec…
The Man Who Created a Written Language for the Cherokee Did It So Efficiently and Elegantly, His Peers Thought It Was Magic Sequoyah’s syllabary faced suspicion initially, but after a demonstration, h…
Renoir in Paris: Impressionism and the 'city of love' | National Gallery Follow the first 20 years of Renoir's career from the 1860s to the 1880s; from his years as a young bohemian artist in Montmart…
NASA Just Made Nearly 1 TB of Artemis II Data Available to the Public The data drop includes photographs, audio, video, and astronauts’ notes that will be used to study the moon and prepare for future…
Learning to Love Letterlocking Though mostly working quietly in the conservation lab, I enjoyed stepping out to host two workshops. They helped library staff and students connect with and interpret hi…
The legend is so strong': The truth about Nicolas Flamel and the philosophers' stone The myth of Nicolas and Pernelle Flamel, medieval Parisians said to have made gold with a 'philosopher's stone', sp…
Mary Chesnut Was the South’s Civil War Diarist Mary Chesnut’s private diary offers an intimate and colorful glimpse into what life was like for the South’s elite class during the Civil War. https://ww…
Literary giants Joseph Conrad and John Galsworthy owed their friendship to Port Adelaide By Daniel Keane https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-10/nobel-winner-john-galsworthy-met-joseph-conrad-at-port-a…
The Surprising Origin Story of Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’ If it weren't for a 14th-century poem, we would never have had one of the world's most iconic sculptures. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-bit…
The Dramatic History Of San Francisco’s Cliff House, The Beloved Estate That Survived The 1906 Earthquake And A Sailboat Full Of Dynamite By Genevieve Carlton Built in 1863, Cliff House was a renowned…
👀 Watch history being preserved, live. At the Internet Archive, government documents and other historical materials are being digitized in real time. 📜➡️💻 You can watch the process happen. No time mach…
Anne Carson and the Beauty of the Unsaid The writer, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, understands that sometimes the most powerful thing a poet can say is nothing at all. By Spencer …
