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Link Love: 12/13/2019

Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

It’s like a dating app only better, because it matches you with books. It’s NPR’s 2019 Book Concierge! [via NPR Books]

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The Library of Congress announced its newest twenty-five additions to the National Film Registry, and, in case you didn’t already know, women rule. [via Carla Hayden] 

The New York Times eavesdropped on visitors exploring the expanded, new MoMa. The comments will make you laugh and give you the warm and fuzzies. Oh, and it’s illustrated! [via New York Times]

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The singular nonbinary pronoun “they” is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year. [via Hyperallergic]

While cleaning ivy on a wall at the Ricci Oddi art gallery, a gardener may have stumbled upon a stolen Gustav Klimt portrait, hidden in the wall. [via Artsy]

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The people have spoken—meet Quilliam. [via Smithsonian]

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