🌈Ranibow Sprimkle🌈

On the one hand, deciding to do a herringbone pattern probably increased the floor renovation project time by 4-5 hours. On the other hand, my library floor is going to look bomb as hell (just as soon as I run to Home Depot for more flooring because I ran out 😬). We’ll do black grout in here as well. And once the floor is done…I can start building bookshelves 🎉🎉🎉

Finally. Ready for grout and also ready for this project to be over. Not to sound old, but my knees are not what they used to be.

Finished!!

Ok, it’s been a hot minute but we are finally making progress again on the library! We have moved the door a foot so we can have wall to wall shelves, and the bookcases are all built! I just have to sand and seal them and hopefully we can install them this weekend.

(!!!!!!!!!) We are sanded and installed! Finishing up the toe kicks tomorrow and then I will seal everything this weekend and hopefully start unpacking books next week!

Two layers of poly down. One last light sand and a final round of seal tomorrow and the shelves are done! (Also started painting the ceiling).❤️❤️❤️

Starting to unpack books and still painting the ceiling!

Books are all unpacked and starry night projector installed. Now we wait for the new light fixture, shelf lighting, and rug to arrive. ❤️

Light fixture installed, rug laid, throw pillows thrown. Bookcase lighting should arrive this weekend and I’m debating adding gold stars to the ceiling. But we’re nearly done!

Ok, it’s before and after time:

I really am in love. I still need to make the rolling ladder and figure out what to do with the TV wall (the wall the couch is facing). But I have to focus on more pressing projects for a bit, so expect a final update in a few months, maybe! ❤️

Beauty (1921)

by Frederick McMonnies, New York Public Library (1902–11), Midtown,476 Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street, Bryant Park,Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

Architect: Carrère and Hastings

Beauty is depicted seated on Pegasus. Above is inscribed: Beauty, old yet ever new!/Eternal Voice and Inward Word (John Greenleaf Whitter, The Shadow and the Light).

 The model for the statue was Audrey Munson.

Home library of the late Richard Macksey, legendary Hopkins prof.

Old abandoned grocery store repurposed as a library

Certified Library Post

"Hey, we need to renovate this grocery store into a library."

"Okay, I got you."

*Removes the B from the BREAD sign*

"Done"

This library is so child hospital coded

Ok but you could have roller derby in that library and it would be amazing

Lineart is all done! The backgrounds are still loose since I’m trying to decide how polished I want them. Hm-mm-meh.

We find Harry at the start of 8th year term, wrapping up his chokingly difficult reading of the career pamphlets loaned to him from Hermione. He spots Draco Malfoy alone at a table surrounded by scrolls upon books upon ledgers, his pointy nose almost wedged into a dusty tome as he studies. Malfoy hasn’t noticed him, luckily, but it seems he hasn’t noticed much else around him beyond the scribbling of his notes. The fuzzy Autumn sun behind Malfoy makes his blonde hair glow white along its edges.

Chosen Cages, Wings of Pages 

A little idea I had about reading books as a form of escapism

Closeups

if the significance of the internet archive being threatened has been lost on anyone, maybe these quick comparisons will put it into perspective…

Banning the Internet Archive would be the equivalent of burning the Library of Alexandria 360,000 times…

Not a single volume has been opened. That’s a great shame. There’s something sad about an unread book.

The history of Green Books

Start your own small thing

More tiny painting commissions of animals being studious! All are 2x3 to 3x3 inches in size, ink and watercolor. I love painting them! The mouse and fox are both available as prints and other merch in my Redbubble shop! Link in my tumblr bio!

The library in the long gallery at Blickling Hall, Norfolk. It is a very rare and important collection, containing about 12,500 books and manuscripts dating from the 11th to the 19th century. One of its famous holdings is the Blickling Homilies, a very early example of English vernacular writing. It also contains the third atlas ever printed (from 1482) and very early Bibles and theological texts.

The Library at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, UK. The house was built between 1749 to 1776.

If you can, please donate to the Internet archive, links in the description. The loss of the archive would be devastating for dozens of reasons.

I know the Library of Alexandria comment sounds like an exaggeration. It absolutely is not. As of May 7, 2022, the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 7.9 million movies, videos and TV shows, 842 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 237 thousand concerts, and over 682 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. It’s been operating since 1996, the loss of knowledge would be impossible to ever completely come back from.

The lawsuit from Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley Sons, and Penguin Random House alleges there have been significant revenue losses because of their controlled digital lending program. For context, most libraries in the US also use CDL to distribute books to their patrons wherever they are but those programs are run through for profit companies and the libraries are often paying a very high fee to so their patrons can have access to digital books. The Internet Archive’s program is completely free but they have a policy of not digitizing and lending anything less than 5 years old.

The lawsuit goes on to note that authors often own larger shares of their revenue of digital vs. print copies of their books. So the publishing companies, seeing that they’re underpaying their authors, are essentially blaming a library for being free instead of bumping up what authors earn on print copies. The Internet Archive’s 5 year policy is designed to protect authors anyway as that’s when books typically make the most money.

Hey by the way The Internet Archive is also one of the most cited places on Wikipedia. If it goes down a good chunk of Wikipedia will go back to “citation needed” or citations will lead to dead links.

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Right now, and for a “limited time,” anyone in the United States between the age of 13 and 21 can apply for a free Brooklyn Public Library eCard, which gives access to 350,000 eBooks, 200,000 audiobooks, and online databases. (Normally, Brooklyn Public Library eCards are only free for people who live and/or work in New York state.)

More Info

If any of y’all didn’t know, there’s a free online library, aka

https://openlibrary.org/

and I found like, twelve ebooks I’ve been wanting to read on there, and blasted through like three of them during the course of a boring-ass shift.

Guy there are books on magic on there.

There’s books on EVERYTHING there!

Wouldn’t this be bad for authors though? or is this like a normal library where they get /some/ money?

It’s like a normal library. Libraries can upload ebooks there and let people check them out through openlibrary if you have an openlibrary account, or it can point you to nearby libraries that have physical copies of the book for you to go and check out. If you check out books via openlibrary it counts towards the count of books checked out from the library that uploaded the ebook, and they can use it in their reporting and funding and stuff.

There’s like 150 libraries partnered with openlibrary so far.

They also have copies that you can check out if you are print-disabled.

You can also ‘sponsor a book’, which means you pay the cost of the ebook you want openlibrary to acquire, and then they can add it to their collection and let people check it out.

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL26576A/Tamora_Pierce

I sure did!

And click on a title even if it says ‘no ebook available’ and scroll down, ‘cause sometimes that just means “all of the copies of ebooks are checked out right now but you can get on the waitlist when it’s back in”

This is part of the Internet Archive! I’ve posted about this before. Please go, it’s amazing.