Why Librarians Should Love Fallout 4

I feel like Stephan from Saturday Night Live, this article has everything! Boston, video games, libraries. I love it when my favorite worlds collide! Erin Blakemore lets us know what the connections are in today’s snippet from Smithsonian. ~ * ~ At first blush, “library” and “Fallout 4” don’t seem like they should belong in the … Read more

So this is the scariest thing I can think of, when is the last time you read a book?

According to Pew Research 28% of American Adults did not read one single book last year. Overall reading has gone down 4% in the same time frame, eBook reading remained flat. The article, Slightly fewer Americans are reading print books, breaks down the demographics further, and is part of a much larger report on Libraries … Read more

Chicago hottest new library has everything…. books… tweets… all in a train…

As part of it’s Chicago Ideas Week, a bunch of selected books was left on the the city trains for people to read while they commute. Called “Books on the L” people were able to read selected titles until they reached their destination.   If the reader wants to chat about a particular book, they just … Read more