Retro Library Posters

"Canada-based library technician Enokson has a great online collection of colorful vintage posters that promote the use of libraries and help kids maneuver their way around one. She found them while digging through the library and believes them to be from when the library opened in the 1960s. Check out the entire set at her Flickr page. "

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The Conjuring Arts Research Center

Nestled in a hidden location in midtown Manhattan, the Counjuring Arts Research Center is ground zero for illusionists and historians alike. The Center provides a range of services, publishes scholarly journals, and teaches hospital-bound kids magic through its Hocus Pocus program. It is perhaps best known as home to one of the largest known collections of historic books, letters, and other media, which the center makes available online.

Bill Kalush, the center's founder and director, explains how he built the collection piece-by-piece and shows us some of its highlights.

CH Presents: The Conjuring Arts Research Center from Cool Hunting on Vimeo.

Awful Library Books

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Take A Seat

"A concept visualisation of this graduation project at the Design Academy Eindhoven. An interactive seat which follows the user at the library."

Save The Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica! - BPH - Ritman Library (Amsterdam)

"The Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (BPH, or Ritman Library) in Amsterdam has been a very important institution for research into hermetic philosophy and related currents, particularly early modern Rosicrucianism and alchemy, for decades. In a dramatic and very unsettling turn of events, the library’s existence as we know it is now being threatened. It is all very unclear what will happen, but there is no doubt that spreading the word and creating attention around the developments is the least we can do to try and influence things in the best possible direction – to save the library, the staff, and its national heritage collection of manuscripts and printed books. Please sign this petition, and feel free to spread the word to anyone you think should know about this."

Sign the petition here

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