NYPL decided to create an ad for itself using recreations of my actual college/grad-school experience. Poring over books and manuscripts for research, doing work in the Irma and Paul Milstein Division (and listen, I know you all love the Rose Reading Room, but the Milstein Division is the best place to get. shit. done.), discovering odd and disturbing things one did not know about one’s family (possibly not actually research related), constantly hearing O Fortuna (probably just in your head, OR IS IT)… Even the hallucinations of weird people. Because drugs (and lack of sleep).
Proven: history loves GIFs. Thanks NYPL!
The Library has just launched Stereogranimator, a site that lets users turn our historic collection of stereographs into animated images like the one above.
So cool! Also, per the Times: “Stereographs, produced by the millions between the 1850s and the 1930s, were a wildly popular form of entertainment…” So really, people have ALWAYS loved gifs!
I’VE ONLY BEEN SAYING THIS FOR AGES ALREADY.
- @JanieH, a librarian at Princeton public.
Similarly, the New York Public Library faces a $33 million cut in NYC’s proposed budget and NYPL President Paul LeClerc recently spoke against it, giving the dire statistics of what this cut would mean.
As someone in “the business”, generally, and nearing unemployment, I’m about ready to choke a banker.
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New York Public Library. American History room. 1944 [Life]
hours spent researching in here (as well as other sections of the NYPL) are what seduced me into my current career.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/QtyE6FlyNqgvqdybnA5HXRtpo1_500.jpg)
I guess I’m not the only one who thought Stereoscope —> GIF was a good idea.
(photo is of a hippo being fed at the Central Park Zoo, stereoscope from New York Public Library)
"If only..."
- Hillel: so apparently the NYPL lions are going to start twittering
- me: "get a load of this dumbass tourist walking past me right now"
- "pigeon shit on face.... again... FML"
