The Library of Congress launched an iPhone or (iPod Touch) app this week (you can download it here ), which includes photo galleries, audio and video tours, and background essays on many of the library’s major collections. The section on Jefferson’s Library is particularly worth a browse (but then, I’m a bit biased).
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Library of Congress on Your iPhone
The Raab Collection , historic document dealers located in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, has just published a new catalogue titled Great Collections: The 19th Century . Fully accessible online, the new guide includes chapters on how to build a collection, tips on preserving, displaying, loaning, or donating items, and highlights from their 19th-century holdings
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New Collectors Guide Online
David Rees, a former comic artist in Beacon, New York, has started a business in which he hand-sharpens his customers’ pencils. His company is called Artisanal Pencil Sharpening , And here I thought I was super cool with my wall-mounted Boston sharpener. The cost for this service is $15
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Artisanal Pencil Sharpening
Book description and images are from Design Studio Press DRIVE features Scott Rorbertson ’s very latest vehicle designs intended for the video game space communicated through skillfully drawn sketches and renderings.
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Book Preview: DRIVE: vehicle sketches and renderings by Scott Robertson
Book description and images are from Design Studio Press : The Colony – The story, taking place in 1875 traces the epic journey of Gabriel Duban in an era before space‑travel when worlds of mystery, danger and enchantment were still found on Earth. Adventure and horror take on dizzying new dimensions as Duban pursues the truth of A LOST CITY in an empire defying space and time..
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Book Preview: The Colony: a structure celebrating the triumphs of technology
Following the succes of the Amazon Kindle, it has been reported (by the New York Times at least) that the Lab 126 division of Amazon which is responsible for the manufacture of their hardware devices, is gearing up to create new ranges that go beyond the ebook readers already popularised with the world. The whole report is based on some job openings with Lab 126 and it could just be that the company is looking for Supply Chain Managers and Engineers to help launch and improve newer versions of the hardware but you never know. E-books are really only a small portion of the digital content portfolio that Amazon boasts and you can also download music and videos
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Amazon To Release More Hardware?
Cindy : Jack tales have to be among my favorite folktales and when you have one written by a special author and combine that with a tribute to storytelling and feature dessert, you know up front how I will feel about this book! Clever Jack Takes the Cake (Random House/Schwarz & Wade, 2010) is an original picture book in the tradition of the great Jack tales. Birthday party presents are a dilemma for all children
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Clever Jack Takes the Cake by Candace Fleming
Product Description from Amazon: The 1960s was an optimistic era of unprecedented change, and its heady zeitgeist was captured in the amazing range of artwork that adorned the magazines of the time. Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s is a colossal survey of magazine artwork from the Swinging Sixties. It not only provides revelatory insight into the extraordinary artistic talents of the illustrators featured–such as Austin Briggs, Lynn Buckham, Antonio Lopez and Coby Whitmore–but also tellingly elucidates the social aspirations of this era of political optimism and sexual freedom
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Book Preview: Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s
Volume 2 continues where the first volume left of – in space. This volume features the environment art from other planets, one of which I think is the space dog Pochi’s home planet. The art now is a mixture of gradients and textured watercolours.
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Book Review: The Art of 宇宙ショーへようこそ 下 (The Art of Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW Vol. 2)
This is volume 1 of 2 for a set of books on the background art for Japanese animated movie 宇宙ショーへようこそ (Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW). Both books come with a transparent slipcase with characters that overlay the cover. The background art is absolutely gorgeous.
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Book Review: The Art of 宇宙ショーへようこそ 上 (The Art of Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW Vol. 1)
There are three art books for the Japanese animated movie 宇宙ショーへようこそ (Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW). One’s this book I’m reviewing which covers the design for characters, props and storyboards. The other two books cover the background art
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Book Review: 宇宙ショーへようこそ設定資料集 (Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW Design Works)
Lynn: This beguiling book is set in the same world and with some of the same characters as one of my favorite series that began with Sorcery and Cecelia or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot (Houghton 2003). Written by Stevermer with Patricia Wrede the books are set in an alternate regency England where magic works. Think Georgette Heyer meets Diana Wynne Jones
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Magic Below Stairs by Caroline Stevermer
One of the most extraordinary bibliophiles I have ever met, Irwin T. “Toby” Holtzman, passed away in Detroit this past week at 82, leaving behind his lovely wife Shirley, three children, three grandchildren, and a legacy of tenacious commitment to books and libraries that is unequaled in my experience. Truth be told, I never met anyone quite like Toby, and expect I will not again anytime soon
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Toby Holtzman, Bookman
WASHINGTON — I’ve got to hand it to new author Patrick McEnroe, a former Grand Slam doubles champion, Davis Cup coach, and engaging commentator on ESPN. He is a celebrity who understands that without ticket, book and gear-buying fans, he would have no career: The good life he enjoys is a direct result of what people buy and watch they watch on TV.
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Patrick McEnroe: Athlete-turned-author understands what matters — the fans
When I first looked at California artist Marie Kazalia ‘s painting, Rainbow X, I did not see the “x” which supports and shows through the vertical swaths of color. It wasn’t until I saw her video of the painting process that I realized how she constructed it. Rainbow X (“We cover the earth”) mixed media on canvas, 48″ x 48″ by Marie Kazalia One of my favorites for its bold attack of paint is “Titania”: Titania, mixed media on canvas, 30″ x 30″ by Marie Kazalia.
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Friday’s Featured Abstract Artist: Marie Kazalia
Witch by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie This book is supposed to be a young adult book of witches and warlocks. And while I believe that teens will find this interesting as an adult I do as well (which is why I probably like this genre so much)
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Book Review: Witch by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie
The BBC reports today that Raymond Scott, who stole a first folio from Durham University in 1998, has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Said Judge Richard Lowden to Scott: “It would be regarded by many as priceless but to you it was definitely at a very big price and you went to very great lengths for that price. Your motivation was for financial gain
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Folio Thief Gets 8 Years
If you read my previous post, you’ll know about the Providence Public Library and what its special collections librarian has been up to these days. What might a bookish tourist do while vacationing in Rhode Island this summer? Eric Boutin, a grad student in the MLIS program at the University of RI, alerted me to an exhibit of Civil War ballads he has curated for the University of RI-Kingston, running in August and September
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More in Rhode Island…
Lynn: Kathleen Krull is known for her humorous and innovative biographies and she and husband Paul Brewer have brought that approach to one of our most important and well-spoken presidents. The number of biographies of Lincoln is mind-boggling but here is a fresh and funny approach that is also smartly written and will give young readers much to think about. Lincoln Tells a Joke: How Laughter Saved the President (and the Country) (Houghton/Harcourt 2010) begins with a litany of some of the serious and difficult issues Lincoln faced in his life.
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Lincoln Tells a Joke by Kathleen Krull & Paul Brewer
Cindy : There are so many bad YA books by authors of adult fiction who try to cross over, that I rejoice when someone nails it. Paolo Bacigalupi, welcome to the fold! Ship Breaker (Little Brown, 2010) is not only a great cross over for this author, it’s one of the best books of the year so far and should bring some of his ardent science fiction reading adult fans nosing around to see what else is happening in teen literature. Nailer, a teen living on the Gulf Coast in a post-apocalyptic future, longs to sail on the elegant clipper ships, but as a member of light-crew, he is destined to spend his day crawling through small ducts, stripping copper and other valuable metals from the wrecked oil tankers along the coast
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Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Lynn: Be honest – there is something flat out satisfying about having a temper tantrum. Most of us learn very early that it doesn’t pay but most of us never lose our fascination with watching someone else or someone else’s child have a foot-stomping screaming fit either.
Show Me How is basically an instructional reference guide that teaches interesting, and sometimes particular, life lessons.
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Book Review: Show Me How: 500 Things You Should Know Instructions for Life From the Everyday to the Exotic
Comic-Con Special Guest DREW STRUZAN will be signing copies of his new book THE ART OF DREW STRUZAN in Autograph Alley (AA19) on Saturday Jul 24 at 11am ! Collecting never-before-seen comps and sketches, alternative concepts and work-in-progress art alongside his inimitable finished posters, this awesome coffee-table book won’t be available anywhere else until September, so this is your chance to bag an early copy and meet the man himself in an extremely rare personal appearance. He will also be appearing in a panel on Friday Jul 23 at 5pm in Room 7AB
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Coming Soon: The Art of Drew Struzan
Lynn: In his preface to Sir Charlie Chaplin (Harper/Greenwillow, 2010) Sid Fleischman relates a story of how Chaplin was asked about a movie scene in which he single-handedly captured thirteen enemy soldiers. “I surrounded them,” he answered and Fleischman goes on to say that “I surrounded Chaplin to make him the subject of this biography.” I think that exactly describes this book
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Sir Charlie Chaplin: The Funniest Man in the World by Sid Fleischman
For children, so much of the school year is clogged with assigned reading, it’s a treat as delicious as an orange push-up to get to choose books that reflect personal tastes without judgment or tests and that can be read at any pace, books that are relaxing and friendly and plain old fun , books that make us laugh or carry us away! I had such a wonderful time recently on NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook show, discussing some of the best summer reading (click to listen!) with experts Pete Cowdin of Reading Reptile Bookstore and Monica Edinger of the blog Educating Alice!
This is actually the English translated edition of the Japanese art book 艶浪「無限の住人」画集 (ISBN 4063647234) published back in 2008. This hardcover edition published by Dark Horse features an additional 32 pages of artwork. That’s over 150 pieces of samurai art.
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Book Review: The Art of Blade of the Immortal