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Fun Finds
April 30, 2008
As some of you may know, the Central Children's Room of the Donnell Library (of the New York Public Library system) is slated to leave the Donnell soon due to the fact that the building was sold. As such, we've been doing a bit of housekeeping around here. Think you can accumulate an odd amount of stuff in a short amount of time? Try being a library where accumulation is considered a virtue rather than a vice. My boss John Peters recently unearthed a veritable plethora of delights. Here is what he has said in a recent email that he had found:
----A page schedule from the early 1940s. Today's pages might be grateful to learn that they no longer have to clean the inkwells.
---- Pogo Primer For Parents (TV Division), a 1961 pamphlet with art by Walt Kelly, filled with reassuring advice for parents worried about their children's TV watching habits.
----Memos indicating that the old Central Children's Room also closed at the end of May in 1971 , and reopened (with Angeline Moscatt at the helm, Despina C. as First Assistant, a Reference Librarian and one and a half children's librarians for professional staff) on December 8th. One hopes that we won't take that long this time around.
---- Picture postcards of the old Room.
----A press photograph of Ed Koch doing a picture book storytime.
----At least a dozen librarian examination booklets. Evidently in days of yore any specialty assignment or promotion hinged on a written exam. The questions aren't no-brainers, either.
Posted by Elizabeth Bird on April 30, 2008 | Comments (5)
