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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Today’s post is authored by Constance Carter, head of the science reference section. Connie has written for us before, see her post - Celebrate with a Chocolate Chip Cookie. Today, as the country recovers from an economic downslide, we can seek our forebears’ advice and learn from their ingenuity. How exactly did they use their talents to …
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos, Women's History
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
The following is a guest post by Barbara Tenenbaum, a specialist in Mexican Culture and Curator of the Jay I Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division. On Wednesday, June 29 from 6-8 pm, the Hispanic Division and the Embassy of Peru are presenting a conference on “Machu Picchu: a Centennial Celebration” in the …
Posted in: Guest Blog Posts, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
I can remember when I headed down to my local library and looked through the card catalog to find information. I even remember classes in high school on how to use the card catalog. Nowadays, many library users have never heard of a card catalog and if they see one, they might think it’s an interesting old …
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Blog post about some of the marbles used in the John Adams Building.
Posted in: John Adams Building
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
We recently hosted students from the Tai Sophia Institute, to whom we exhibited copies of the Library’s 19th– century books on holistic and eclectic medicine, also called Thomsonian medicine. My colleague found some unusal art work within a copy of Samuel Thomson’s A Narrative of the Life and Medical Discoveries of Samuel Thomson, which may amuse our readers. Apparently, a …
Posted in: Pic of the Week