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How Twitter will revolutionise academic research and teaching

date May 9th, 2012 category academia, research, teaching, tumblr, twitter author past and pending comment 0 Comments

How Twitter will revolutionise academic research and teaching: Social media is becoming increasingly…

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Mixed Company: Libraries face the digital future

date May 8th, 2012 category digital, ebooks, future, librarians, libraries, PBS, tumblr author past and pending comment 0 Comments

Mixed Company: Libraries face the digital future: jennyshank:

I spoke to some librarians and a…

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libraryadvocates: Final drawing for Where the Wild Things Are….

date May 8th, 2012 category ALA, books, libraries, maurice sendak, tumblr, Where the Wild Things Are author past and pending comment 0 Comments

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Final drawing for Where the Wild Things Are. Pen and ink, watercolor.© Maurice Sendak, 1963, 1991, all rights reserved. Courtesy, Rosenbach Museum & Library

Maurice Sendak, illustrator and author of nearly 100 books and winner of ALA’s 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where The Wild Things Are, died May 8. He was 83. Creator of amazing nightmares, as the New York Times called Sendak, the artist’s works live on at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, where he contributed more than 10,000 of his illustrations and manuscripts since 1966, and was a trustee. He gained the title of honorary president in 2003.

From Pen to Publisher, an exhibit featuring three of his works, The Sign on Rosie’s Door (1960), Outside Over There (1981), and Brundibar (2003), currently on display at the museum, will be taken down in the near future for a legacy exhibt. The Sendak Gallery is free of charge today in his memory.

The Rosenbach Museum and Library, open to the public since 1954 and the former townhome of two Rosenbach brothers, houses works that reflect their life’s passions: rare books and fine art. A. S. W. Rosenbach gained fame as the developer of Harvard University’s Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library. He was hired to build the collection by the mother of Widener, a wealthy young bibliophile who sank with the Titanic in 1912.

Read the full post on American Libraries Magazine.