Phrenology II, Electric Boogaloo

Part II on Phrenology brings us to A Phrenological Dictionary of 19th Century Americans, 1982 (WorldCat), and The Phrenological Journal, Vols. 43-44, 1866-67 (WorldCat). Phrenological Journal was a crazy magazine that had all kinds of random stuff in it. The only things phrenological were the individual case studies and the “teachings” on morality. The Dictionary [...]

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You were always on mind, you were always on my mind

Part one of a two part series on Phrenology. The idea came to me while skimming the Darwin text a few weeks back. I’ve got four books today and two more for the next post: A System of Phrenology, George Combe, 1843 (WorldCat); Phrenology, J.G. Spurzheim, 1834 (WorldCat); Heads and Faces and How to Read [...]

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O Hai!

I had a break from training today and thought I’d open up the WordPress Dashboard to see how the blog was coming along, stats wise. Imagine my surprise at seeing a spike in visits. My previous busiest day peaked at 73 views. Today, 743. That’s like a million* times more! So thanks to Jessamyn over [...]

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Time off

School is starting up again and I’ve been busy with training staff and students. Library Finds will be on break until the 1st of October. See you then!

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Hairy appendages to the throats of Goats

Charles R. Darwin. Three books: The Origins of Species, 1936 (WorldCat); Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. 1, 1900 (WorldCat); Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. 2, 1868 (WorldCat).

More images at Flickr.

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There are a lot of people at Versailles today

Today we stumble upon your favorite French queen, and mine: Marie Antoinette. I don’t know what keeps me going back to French History, but there I was again, scanning the shelves. Two books caught my eye: Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette (WorldCat) and Secret Memoirs of Princess Lambelle (WorldCat), printed in 1917 [...]

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Midnight ramblings

As I get more into this project, I’ve started talking to Librarians at work, showing them the blog, and asking for help with finding cool books. The other day, I was talking with L. who took me up to the fifth floor of his library. We were walking around the P’s and he was pulling [...]

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Requiescat in pace

Two books that at first glance may not have much in common:
Graven Images, by Allan Ludwig (WorldCat)
The MS-DOS Encyclopedia, Microsoft Press, Edited by Ray Duncan (WorldCat)
Both deal with the dead, and speak of the symbols and glyphs chosen to represent them. And while the subjects of Graven Images date back some 300-400 years, The MS-DOS [...]

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Happiness is a warm book

Two full weeks have gone by since I’ve started this blog and I think it’s coming along nicely. On Friday, I went back through my older posts and added WorldCat entries for as many of the books I’ve covered so far. I’ve also added a link to the Library Finds Flickr page. And lastly, I’ve [...]

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I think I need a moment to myself

Typography. Sweet, sweet Typography. Today’s finds are: The Elements of Typographic Style (WorldCat), The ITC Typeface Collection (WorldCat), and The Typographic Book: 1450-1935 (WorldCat). I went looking for Elements in the Arts Library and didn’t find it in the stacks. Our online catalog said it was not checked out so I thought, “Maybe it’s in [...]

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