{"id":252311,"date":"2022-08-07T14:23:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T14:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=252311"},"modified":"2022-08-07T14:23:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T14:23:51","slug":"love-notes-and-doodles-found-in-library-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/08\/07\/love-notes-and-doodles-found-in-library-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Love notes and doodles found in library books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In her 20 years as a librarian, Sharon McKellar has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2022\/08\/03\/oakland-library-found-book-notes\/\">unearthed all kinds of left-behind personal items<\/a> \u2014 from doodles to recipes to old photographs \u2014 nestled between the pages of returned library books. She carefully removes them and reads them, then she scans and uploads them to the library\u2019s website after scrubbing any personal identifying information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/imrs3530423609893515868.webp?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252309\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPart of the magic is that they sort of just appear,\u201d McKellar said. \u201cSometimes, they may have been in a book for a really long time before we notice them there.\u201d McKellar \u2014 a librarian at the Oakland Public Library \u2014 marvels at each memento, no matter how mundane. She chronicles them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"333\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/screenshot_20220807-102249_chrome6443410010905195667.jpg?resize=525%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252310\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her 20 years as a librarian, Sharon McKellar has unearthed all kinds of left-behind personal items \u2014 from doodles to recipes to old photographs \u2014 nestled between the pages of returned library books. She carefully removes them and reads them, then she scans and uploads them to the library\u2019s website after scrubbing any personal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/08\/07\/love-notes-and-doodles-found-in-library-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Love notes and doodles found in library books&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}