Selections from our copy of Using Your Library. 32 Posters for Classroom and Library. Danville, N.Y.: F. A. Owen Publishing Company, 1965.
Be a Library Champ!!
National Library Week 2016
It’s National Library Week and an excellent opportunity to reblog our post on selections from the poster set Using Your Library, 1965, which remains our most popular post to date.
According to the American Library Association there are nearly 120,000 in the United States.
3,793 are academic libraries, over 9,000 are public libraries, and a whopping 98,460 are in public and private schools.
As a thought exercise, try to imagine your world without any libraries at all. Okay, now you have an even more compelling reason to celebrate!
This night was so serene you could see Orion rise downwards. The unusual spectacle was captured in this single-exposure image, featuring a deep sky around the famous constellation of Orion that appeared both above – and reflected in – a peaceful lake in the Gyirong Valley of Tibet, China. Taken last year at this time, the three belt stars of Orion can be seen lined up almost vertically above and below the Himalayan Mountains. The complex Orion Nebula can be seen to the belt stars’ right, while the red-glowing circular structure surrounding Orion is Barnard’s Loop. Also, the bright red star Betelgeuse is doubly visible on the image left, while bright blue Rigel appears twice on the image right. Familiar Orion is becoming increasingly visible as Winter (Summer) descends on the Northern (Southern) hemisphere.
Bookstore in Óbidos by Jacinto Oliveira: Welcome, sit down and buy or quietly read a book on this innovative Bookstore (market) inside the walls of the village of Óbidos.
