{"id":2585,"date":"2016-05-25T15:44:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T21:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:05:42","slug":"towel-related-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2016\/05\/25\/towel-related-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"towel-related literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/specialcollections.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk\/?p=12583\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2590 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/05\/towelling-1-202x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"Towelling-1-202x300\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI love when libraries put together oddball mini-exhibitions on obscure topics. (I guess that&#8217;s no surprise coming from the person who brought you mini-exhibitions on 19th Century Beards, Different Kinds of Paperclips, and Composition Books.) The Cambridge University Library currently has <a href=\"https:\/\/specialcollections.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk\/?p=12583\">a display of their towel-related holdings<\/a> in honor of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Towel_Day\">Towel Day<\/a>, May 25, celebrating Douglas Adams and his <em>Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em> series. Possibly my favorite sentence in the article: &#8220;The bibliography of towels is, in fact, remarkably limited.&#8221; Thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/lynnemthomas.com\/\">Lynne M. Thomas<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love when libraries put together oddball mini-exhibitions on obscure topics. (I guess that&#8217;s no surprise coming from the person who brought you mini-exhibitions on 19th Century Beards, Different Kinds of Paperclips, and Composition Books.) The Cambridge University Library currently has a display of their towel-related holdings in honor of Towel Day, May 25, celebrating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-FH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3939,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions\/3939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}