The Travelin' Librarian

My dad just got back from “NATO School” in Germany and has posted his photos.

It’s now Google Book Search. Here’s why.

British archivists are trying to decipher a cookbook from 1742 which includes a recipie for stewed calf’s head. (Images included, of the cookbook, not the ingredients…)

This article on MSN offers advice for dealing with the forthcoming flu season. Their last piece of advice for protecting yourself at the office: “During flu season, never let anyone lick your keyboard.” (No, I’m not kidding!)
Thanks Rosario

Book-collectors are divided into twelve or thirteen classes. There are also, in relation to books, certain sub-classes of human beings, who will some say be investigated and explained. These include the families or individuals who admit into their dwellings no other books except the Six Well-Bound Volumes permitted by interior decorators as the literary ration of a home. These are precisely placed on a table, between a pair of handsome “book-ends” (so called because it is an end to all normal use of books when you acquire them) and may be employed for pressing flowers, or as a place in which to conceal incriminating documents.”
— Edmund Lester Pearson, Books in Black or Red, 1923