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magicaloxford · 3 months

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Oxford's iconic Radcliffe Camera from Brasenose College ☆ The Brasenose historian, Reginald Jeffery, was once startled by a ghost on this spot!

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inatriestostudy · 2 years

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Ok but old libraries. The only place where you can find such extensive knowledge on any topic your heart and mind desire. Old libraries with dust everywhere, huge creaking staircases, worn out carpets, yellow pages, forgotten books, secret passageways behind bookshelves and a ginger cat that's been here for longer than anyone can remember. Love messages of people who are now probably in their sixties carved out in the heavy wooden tables and cigarette stains around the windows, where thinkers, lovers and many, many others have once sat, admiring the beauty of nature. Forgotten pressed flowers, or black and white pictures, or old candy wraps falling out of books once you open them, landing on the ground for you to pick up and examine.

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miatsai · 7 months

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just died of old. saw in the tags of the last post i reblogged that the user "didn't know library cards were a thing" until that post and i might have seized up in the chest and keeled over.

i miss library cards; i miss the huge stamps that made the ka-chunk sound; i miss card catalogs but not the dewey system (we use card catalogs at the garden library but it's all LoC and also we can't afford to digitize everything so every process is done by hand); i miss filling out the cards with my name and watching the librarians turn the dials on the small stamps to the day's date. i miss being the last person on the card and i miss being the first person on the new card.

tangentially, there's such a huge difference between millennials/people older than millennials and those younger than millennials in terms of how information is stored and organized. the older generations had physical access to archives and a physical organizational system that didn't rely on search strings to retrieve information. the younger generations have keywords, tags, algorithms making suggestions. i feel like as someone who straddles both modes that one of the best things i can do for my children is get them familiar with older methods of organizational thinking so they can be as agile as possible in the future.

or maybe i truly am just old and miss analog systems, as bulky and inefficient as they were.

#nostalgia #old libraries #also i'm old now i guess #i still accession by hand #i still use a card catalog #there's a certain joy to letting your fingers walk through the cards #to looking at either side of the call number you want and just pulling whatever book strikes your fancy #no computer or algorithm suggested those things

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sheepgirl3 · 2 months

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About to rearrange and sort my bookshelves! What are your favorite ways to sort your bookshelves?

#books and reading #books and libraries #books #books & libraries #fantasy books #old books #bookshelf #booksbooksbooks #romance books #bookblr #bookworm #tumblr writing community #tumblr polls #random polls #my polls

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lone-nyctophile · 5 months

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~ Whitney Hanson

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shakespearesdaughters · 24 days

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literarydesire · 2 months

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Vita carissima

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lovesdaya · 3 months

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@lovesdaya

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queen-academia · 3 months

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berlinsct · 20 days

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magicaloxford · 8 months

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Inside medieval St. Cross Church, which is now an archive for Balliol College and closed to the public. Several fantasy writers, including members of the famous Inklings, are buried in the St. Cross churchyard.

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calvinandhobbes · 2 years

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she let me hit cause i support my public library

#my old job as a library assistant was the best. just returning books to their special little spots in the shelves :)#🧦

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escapismsworld · 9 months

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Sintra, Portugal

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vodkatales · 2 years

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For old times sake is actually such a heartbreaking and beautiful sentiment. Like, let’s do it for the love that used to be here. It is reason enough.

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lone-nyctophile · 2 years

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- Beau Taplin

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shakespearesdaughters · 4 months

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