Category: libraries

  • Fashion in Plates

    Thanksgiving week seems an ideal time to be talking about anything on or in plates. And our post later in the week is all about the history of fashion plates in Godey’s Lady’s Book. (It should come out Wednesday, November 21.) With that in mind, I thought I’d highlight some other library resources on fashion…

  • Magazines of the Week

      Hi, all, With the U.S. holiday Thanksgiving next week, it seems like time to talk about recipes. We subscribe to many homey foodie magazines in the FIT Library, and this month they all have yummy looking things on their covers. What’s interesting is that only 1 of the usual go-to recipe magazines has Thanksgiving…

  • Magazine of the Week

    Hi, everyone, welcome back.     This week’s MoW is a New York regular, bred here and all about here. The New Yorker was launched in 1925 as a thinking person’s humor magazine with New York City as its focus. Its creators, Harold Ross and Jane Grant, supported many of the best writers of the…