In Our Feeds: the Hogwarts IT guy, books for shelter dogs, and Lin-Manuel Miranda continues to be amazing

Megan Kaesshaefer  //  Feb 26, 2016

In Our Feeds: the Hogwarts IT guy, books for shelter dogs, and Lin-Manuel Miranda continues to be amazing

Every Friday, we share a handful of links that we found funny, provocative or just plain cool. We call it In Our Feeds. Have a great weekend!

The Shelter Buddies Reading Program encourages children to read aloud to shelter dogs in the hope that the interaction will better prepare the dogs for a future with a family. (And it really works!) The benefits go both ways though — the shy readers build confidence through reading aloud again and again. Best. Program. Ever.

ICYMI: There's a new librarian of Congress in town. Meet Carla D. Hayden. And she's the first woman and the first African-American to ever hold the position.

The New York Times had us laughing over this four act play set in a Times Square musical theatre bookstore and starring a burst pipe (the villian), and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda (the hero).

As a total sucker for a pretty book cover, I'm loving this round-up of gorgeous new covers for classic books from BuzzFeed.

What a great collection of unintentioal last words of famous writers. My favoirte: "There was a woman behind each of my books." - Ernest Hemingway.

Have you heard of BookTube? It's like YouTube, but for bookish people (so...better?)

Did you know Hogwarts has an IT guy? Ok, he's not real, but after reading this Tumblr written from the perspective of a muggle IT guy, I wish he was.