The Library of Twitter Emoji, ASCII and Text Meme Templates
A righteous Twitter user named Nathan has made an accessible Google doc collecting all the Twitter emoji, ASCII and text meme templates he can. Behold here.
“Decolonizing Your Library: Building an Inclusive Graphic Novel Collection and Beyond”
At Booklist, Alexandria brown has some suggestions and offers some resources for librarians to build inclusive graphic novel collections and decolonize their libraries. “Decolonization work and graphic novels may not seem like an obvious pairing, but in fact, the two can go hand in hand. In recent years, […]
“Literature’s Most Curious Creations”
Smithsonian has an interview with Edward Brooke-Hitching on “literary curiosities” and his book, The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities From History. “You realize everyone has their own form of curiosities, and that as a species, we’ve always been incredibly strange and weird, but […]
“Fandom and Information Literacy”
Friend of the Gutter Matt Finch talks with SOAS University of London librarian Ludi Price about “the way fans collect, share, and organise information about their fandoms.” “This 1-hour discussion with Dr. Ludi Price explores what information professionals can learn from the ways in which information is managed […]
1,600 Occult Books for Your Perusal
Amsterdam’s Ritman Library has put over 1,600 occult and alchemical books online as part of their “Hermetically Open” project. (via Open Culture).
“The Star-Crossed Story of ‘Negro Romance.'”
Neely Tucker writes about Negro Romance, a 1950s American romance comic focused on Black characters, for the Library of Congress blog. “It was startling and rare for its positive depiction of African Americans in the era, particularly in its portrayals of young black women as romantic heroines. But […]
The Cultural Gutter 