That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
(Source: treesquirrrel)
Socrates: Library Cat
RSSThe problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson (via socialuprooting)
(Source: brain-food)
In honor of National Library Week, I give you Improv Everywhere reenacting a scene from Ghostbusters in the very same NYPL reading room in which it was originally filmed. Hilarious.
Where would you be without your library? Charming lo-fi video by the tiny Shutesbury Public Library in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, which desperately needs a new building. The state Library Commission has promised to fund 60% of it, amounting to $2.1 million, as long as the library raises $1.4 million by June 30. You can chip in here.
More on the love of libraries from some of modern history’s greatest icons.
8 Over-the-Top Libraries (USA Today article)
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen (May 2009)
Aldous Huxley (Author: “Brave New World”) vs. George Orwell (Author: Nineteen Eighty-Four
(Source: aisle7)
Do you love books? Watch them fly in the Oscar nominated short, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.
(via @LibraryofCT)
Update - February 27, 2012: Well, I guess now that this film has won the Academy Award for best animated short, it’s no longer freely available online. Hope you had the chance to see it.
In case you missed it, check out this awesome video that takes you on a whirlwind tour of 11 countries in just one minute!
(Source: Mashable)
About Socrates: Library Cat
Hi! My name is Socrates, and I live in the
Miami Dade College Kendall Campus Library.
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Miami Dade College Kendall Campus Library.
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