Good use for old books
A 9.5-foot green tree, comprised of pre-1950 national union catalog books, sits in the four-story atrium inside the main entrance of Reno's University of Nevada Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center. The university says the tree, the mastermind of librarian Erin Fisher, "may be the largest ever built." The final design took three hours and 348 books to construct.
Photo credit: Theresa Danna-Douglas, University of Nevada, Reno.
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“Even though Spaulding’s name is not readily recognized, he was an American patriot who safeguarded the freedoms of US citizens by writing the Library Bill of Rights.”
Teresa Wood, describing Forrest Brisbane Spaulding, head of Des Moines (Iowa) Public Library from 1929 to 1952, as depicted in the play The Not So Quiet Librarian, “A Librarian to Remember,” Webster City (Iowa) Daily Freeman-Journal, Apr. 20.
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