Tag: library

cucubert:

Spooky season is upon us! To celebrate I put together a few designs promoting books and libraries. If you like them, feel free to use them! These are four of my poster designs! Again, these posters are absolutely free for you to print and use!

Schools and public libraries are under attack and need your support. They are facing quiet defunding, book bans, and acts of hate. Please consider contacting your local representative to ask that these institutions remain funded and protected, and show your support by stopping by your local library.

For additional Halloween freebies celebrating libraries and reading, click the link here!

If you would like to see more of my library/activism designs or would like to get these designs on a T-shirt, book bag, or sticker, you can visit my shop here.

I don’t know who needs the reminder, but Open Library by the Internet
Archive is such a perfect way to read a ton of different books, and especially books that you will no longer find except for second-hand sale at exorbitant prices. My
experience so far is that you get to check out a book one hour at a time, and if there aren’t any holds on the book then you can just check it out again. You can also add yourself to the waitlist if there is a queue but older books are unlikely to have anyone waiting for them.

So, you know, like a library but with a lot more shelf space for everything from popular books to the most obscure and random stuff across the entirety of human history.

They’re always being unfairly harangued by book publishers for doing what any other library does, so if you like their work you can also donate to help them in their efforts to keep so many different forms of media available for free to the public.

uwmspeccoll:

Staff Pick of the Week

Red-Flannel Hash and Shoo-Fly Pie

For my staff pick of the week, I have chosen a book titled Red-Flannel Hash and Shoo-Fly Pie written by Lila Perl and illustrated by the celebrated children’s-book illustrator Eric Carle. It tells the story of the varied regional foods and dishes in the United States of America. It is a cross between a history book and a cookbook, with printed linocut illustrations that bring the book to life with a couple of recipes to end each chapter. Our copy is a first edition published in 1965 by The World Publishing Company in Cleveland and New York.  

The book is split up into eight chapters by the regions: New England, The Middle Atlantic States, The South, The Midwest and The Great Plains, The Southwest, The West, Alaska, and Hawaii. The book covers roughly four hundred years of  circumstances such as architecture, jobs, different cooking methods, ingredients, ethnicity, race, class, and geography that shaped food and its culture, and importantly the impact that Native Americans had on all of these.

I chose this book as I enjoy learning about the history of how food has developed and changed, as well as trying out recipes to gain more insight. America is often categorized as a melting pot of generic food when really there are so many unique ingredients and dishes that originate in this country.  

The other draw for me was the incredible illustrations carved and printed on linoleum blocks of everything from tools, ingredients, animals, and people. An illustrated spread begins each region’s chapter, with the others embedded in the text and the margins. The illustrations use an expert combination of mark-making and flats of black to embellish and accompany the author’s writing.  

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– Clare, Special Collections Undergraduate Assistant

Shoutout to @architectureofdoom for sending me down a vortex of research about my hometown’s main library in Inglewood, CA. I always loved visiting the library and my high school was right next to it, which meant I’d often stop by after school to dig up some new book about Star Wars or just random stuff I found on my wanderings. In hindsight, the physical contrast of this sort of brutalist structure amid the surrounding neighborhood really felt like I was transported to a different world. I had a somber childhood and don’t like visiting Inglewood except to see my parents and siblings, but places like this library always put me in a great mood.

The photos here are from this short article, and there’s a bit more history of the civic center here.

Shoutout to @architectureofdoom for sending me down a vortex of research about my hometown’s main library in Inglewood, CA. I always loved visiting the library and my high school was right next to it, which meant I’d often stop by after school to dig up some new book about Star Wars or just random stuff I found on my wanderings. In hindsight, the physical contrast of this sort of brutalist structure amid the surrounding neighborhood really felt like I was transported to a different world. I had a somber childhood and don’t like visiting Inglewood except to see my parents and siblings, but places like this library always put me in a great mood.

The photos here are from this short article, and there’s a bit more history of the civic center here.