The Library Made an Emoji Twitterbot to Get You Looking at Its Archives

Remember when you went to your neighborhood library, and the computers were so slow you'd sooner find the book yourself than look it up in the catalogue? Well, long gone are those days when libraries weren't up to snuff with modern technology, at least in New York City.

The New York Public Library released a bot account this month where you can type in any emoji while tagging it, and it will pull up an archived image resembling that emoji from the NYPL's digitized collection of 187,000 images from its archives. The library released the archives of high-resolution images in January.

The bot was made by digital producer Lauren Lampasone and Leonard Richardson, a software architect. It posts twice a day for some good old distracting fun during the workday.

Go to @NYPLEmoji and pick whichever emoji is your most often used. Just don't all everyone try the "laughing-crying face" at once.

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