Celebrate the Annual #LibraryShelfie Day with Us!
As we're sure you were reminded by the circles and exclamation points you drew on the January 26 date of you calendar,—it's #LibraryShelfie day!
Every year on the fourth Wednesday of January, library staff, readers, and book lovers share selfies of themselves in front of library shelves. It's a small, but fun way to show off beautiful books and share your love of libraries and the written word. Not headed to a library today—let's see those home libraries! Below you can see some of our wonderful staff members showing off their shelves including local literary legend—the NYPL Lion.
To see more, you can follow along with the fun on Instagram and Twitter. Have your own to share? Tag your photo on social media with #LibraryShelfie. We even have speech bubble props for you to print out and use in your photos. Here's one in grayscale and another in color.
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