What is the latest you have ever returned a library book? I think mine was a whole summer when I was in Jr. High School, because it took that long for me to clean my room and find it. But one mysterious person that checked a couple of books out of the Portland State University … Read more
If you are a reader of a certain age you will remember going to the library and going through stacks of catalog cards looking for a book. You might have learned the dewy decimal system at the same time. Well the bell has tolled, those days are over. Online Computer Library Center, the last company … Read more
As a follow up and final post from this year’s banned books week I offer you this article from Rawstory I’m a librarian who banned a book — here’s why. “In the library world, access to information is a human right, not to be tampered with or controlled in any way.” You may not realize … Read more
Looking at the trailer, I am so excited! Awesome cast! It looks great especially after the disappointing Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer…. “To succeed in polite society, a young woman must be many things: kind, well-read, and accomplished. But to survive in the world as we know it, she’ll need … other qualities.”—Elizabeth Bennet (James)
I know I talk to my books, especially when a character is not doing what I want them to do. But how about a library where your “books” talk back to you? That is the concept behind the “Human Libraries” where you can go and check out a “book”. This is a volunteer with an … Read more
The last time a nonfiction writer won the Nobel Prize for literature was in 1953 by Winston Churchill. So this years winner, journalist Svetlana Alexievich comes as a welcome surprise. She is most famous for Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster where Alexievich interviewed the innocent people who watched as the Chernobyl … Read more
Slate recently ran a piece with the hyperbolic title Banned Books Week Is a Crock. While it seems pretty obvious that the author is trying to get some attention by whacking a hornets nest, it is also pretty obvious that she is missing the point. I feel blessed to live in a country where there … Read more