If you enjoy browsing our eMagazine collection but have been using the Zinio for Libraries app please note that you now need to up date this to the app called RBdigital - The eMagazine collection and login details remain the same, but you can also access our eAudio books via the same app - 2 for the price of 1!
It’s the August Bank Holiday weekend coming up so why not delve into our eAudio and eMagazine collections? If by some miracle the weather is nice you can put your feet up outside and listen or read to your hearts content! See https://col.ent.sirsidynix.net.uk for more information
On Tuesday 11th April, as part of this year’s Cityread programme of events, Barbican Library are hosting a Play Reading Evening of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (adapted for the stage by Mike Poulton) Literature lovers are invited to join in this special evening of reading and refreshments. No acting experience is required! Dramatic parts will be drawn from a hat. Kirtle/doublet/hose/codpiece and oversized turkey drumstick optional. The event is from 6pm-9pm. Admission if free but advance booking is essential.
Welcome to London 1583!
This year's Cityread title is the gripping Elizabethan spy thriller Prophecy by S.J Parris, featuring maverick philosopher and heretic Giordano Bruno.
Pop into one of our lending libraries to get your paws on a copy!
(please note Shoe Lane Library is closed until 12th April)
It was with a heavy heart and teary eyes (“What? I’ve just got a bit of book dust in them!”) that we said goodbye last week to our friend, colleague and City of London Libraries Tumblarian (or Mistress Of All Things Tumblr-y as I liked to call her). She is moving on to a new chapter in her library career and we wish her every success (and will miss her SO MUCH!). She was intimidatingly great at running this blog but we are going to do our best to try and fill her extremely large Tumblarian shoes! (FYI, in reality, size 7 Converse).
Hello all. This is your City of London Libraries Tumblarian, signing in not to bring the usual quality content and thoughtful commentary to which you have become accustomed (such good commentary), but to say goodbye as I leave City of London Libraries for destinations unknown (it’s another library…like 20 minutes down the road).
I, as some may have cottoned onto, have had a blast running this Tumblr, but will now hand it over to my fine colleagues, who will continue to highlight the best of our libraries, whilst I return to my corner of the web, to eat chewing gum and read all the Columbo posts, and I am aaaaall out of chewing gum.
I’m out of Columbo posts to read too if I’m honest…
Anyway, good readings to all, and remember to support your local library which exists to support you.
Tomorrow will be your last chance for now to pop into Guildhall Library and see old William’s first folio (good stuff, folios two to five could have done with a little more editing and fewer bear chases tho) as a part of English Tourism Week. But not to worry, what with Shakespril up ahead, no doubt there will be more on the Bard soon enough
Look at that folio. Precioussssss…
Interactive Map: The History of Gender Diversity
This interactive map from PBS is a good starting point for people who would like to learn the history of gender diversity around the world. Although the information isn’t anything I would cite directly or take without a grain of salt, it’s a testament to the fact that gender categories are nowhere near as universal as many seem to believe they are. It also isn’t complete-there are many more peoples, cultures, and genders to explore beyond the map as well.
Related: Medievalpoc tagged “qpoc”
(Source: pbs.org)
The U.S. space agency launched a new web-based search engine for much of its catalog of images, video and audio files, which you can browse by keyword and metadata, so that you never have to remember the dismal reality that you’re earthbound ever again.
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