fortunately not a cat or i would have long exhausted 9 lives. libraries, dogs, sled dogs and sometimes politics.
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21 Dec 2022
'Exiled' shows the faces of men sent to Australia on convict ships between the 1820s and the 1850s.
Using the National Library's collections, Edwin Barnard, pieced together biographies of men – and their female partners – who featured in the Port Arthur convict photographs.
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1 Dec 2022
Oh wow, they've installed a Benito Mussolini memorial traffic light.
ALT A traffic light showing the pedestrian lights, the light showing the red standing person has fallen out of its socket and is hanging upside down (but still lit) below the trafic light.
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30 Nov 2022
Little known fact: Before the crowbar was invented, crows simply drank at home.
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30 Nov 2022
HE SEES YOU WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING / HE KNOWS WHEN YOU'RE AWAKE / HE KNOWS IF YOU'VE BEEN BAD OR GOOD / SO KEEP IT SECRET, KEEP IT SAFE
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US focused answers but I think this could be very easily adapted for every country - thanks Oleg Kagan - How to Respond to People Who Don’t Get #Libraries link.medium.com/qjyuvL17bvb
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25 Nov 2022
Oh. My. Dog. Treasures.
24 Nov 2022
To celebrate the 163rd anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species today, we have published the full edition of Charles Darwin's correspondence online! Explore more than 15000 letters, from Darwin's first letter in 1822 to his death in 1882.
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24 Nov 2022
Oxford Music Online is for scholars and amateur music lovers. 🎵
Inside you’ll find over 51,000 articles and 5,000 images; audio and video musical examples; and extensive bibliographies.
Access this resource from home with your National Library card: bit.ly/3EXhJmk
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23 Nov 2022
Thousands of hand-written letters are expected to be mailed between #Ipswich and the North Pole as @ipswichlibrary opens its #LetterstoSanta postal service from 22 November to 14 December 💌🎅
Read more: loom.ly/dQyGEN8
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21 Nov 2022
Tesla stock is now down 49% since Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter in April, losing over half a trillion dollars in market valuation.
Just in the three and a half weeks since Musk took over Twitter on October 28, Tesla stock is down 27%, losing $190 billion in value.
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21 Nov 2022
Read! "One of the tragedies of #libraries is those that most need them are least likely to be in a position to influence politicians. One of the cheapest and most universal forms of human empowerment this country has and we’re losing it" @publiclibnews governmentbusiness.co.uk/fea…
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19 Nov 2022
On my flight today I woke up from a nap & an attendant was walking down the aisle holding a pug, saying “we found this pug. Whose pug is this??” And for 3 hours we all just took turns holding the mystery pug until a verrrry stoned man in the last row woke up & was like “Roscoe?!”
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If you love something,
set it free.
unless it's a wild animal - you should have never had that in the first place
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18 Nov 2022
If Twitter is about to end, remember this.
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18 Nov 2022
Wishing a thorny devil mascot each for anyone who didn't resign from Twitter today in response to calls to be extremely hard core.
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18 Nov 2022
Twitter under Elon Musk has become that episode of Gilmore Girls when Paris thinks she can run the Yale Daily News on her own and ends up in that tin foil cubicle bunker.
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18 Nov 2022
Before: Koala on her way to the Central Library to do some high koalaty research 📚
After: Koala graduating with a koalification 🐨🎓
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15 Nov 2022
A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan
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