At least two books in Escambia County Public Libraries were relocated following complaints by the same person behind book bans at Escambia Schools. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-06-17 17:35:58 UTC ]
Which of these easy ways to support our libraries are you knocking off the list first? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-06-05 11:30:00 UTC ]
Among the week's headlines: a new report reinforces the value of school libraries; PEN America finds school book bans still surging; and an epic battle over the public library in Superman's hometown of Metropolis (...Illinois). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Angel City Press in Los Angeles has long published local authors. In a bold move, its founders are now giving the press to the city’s public library. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2024-02-28 15:49:05 UTC ]
The Los Angeles Public Library has become one of the few public libraries in this country with its own press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-01-17 17:54:25 UTC ]
I have imbibed fairy tales ever since I was six years old. I used to sneak into the public library and scatter several books on the floor to read, even if I couldn’t read them. My mother used to read the Grimms and Andersen tales aloud to me every night until I could read them […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-06 08:53:02 UTC ]
In today’s “why do we have to share a country with these jackasses” news, the board of the public library of Enid and Garfield County in Enid, Oklahoma, voted 3-2 to ban “book displays and library programs that focus on sexual content”—which resulted in the library cancelling not only an adult... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-04-20 17:26:39 UTC ]
Robert Dawson’s The Public Library: A Photographic Essay is a visual love letter to libraries and a testament to the power of reading. The post Our Love for Libraries Told in Photographs appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2022-01-28 21:30:33 UTC ]
People assume everyone who works at a library is a librarian, but most of the staff you’ll interact with at large libraries aren't librarians. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-10-11 10:30:00 UTC ]
Tips, tricks, and ideas for how to run a successful manga club in your school or public library. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-10-08 10:39:00 UTC ]
"What do libraries do?" You may be surprised by these seven basic services your public library offers for free, including job search help. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-03-01 11:30:00 UTC ]
If there is any American institution that connects the threads of literacy, learning, and community welfare, it is the local public library. But without access to healthy food and safe housing, writes PW columnist Sari Feldman, no community can fully thrive, a fact driven home during this... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
WHEN I WAS growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s and ’70s, I read every baseball book on the shelves of the libraries of my grammar school, junior high, and high school and the local branches of the public library. I absorbed them the way a nine-year-old immigrant might take in a new... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-12-27 13:30:28 UTC ]
As libraries begin to reopen around the country, patrons are excited to get back to borrowing books—but they’re also still nervous about COVID-19, which is understandable. At least some of them have been “getting creative” in their attempts to protect themselves, prompting at least one public... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-06-23 18:08:53 UTC ]
BookExpo Online's first full day of programming begins with a panel featureing five library leaders who will take stock of how libraries are handling the coronavirus pandemic thus far and how the public library might change in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
Hay Festival Digital will feature performances, discussions, and interactive Q&As with over 100 of the world’s greatest writers and thinkers. It will stream online from 22 – 31 May 2020.The opening gala, produced by Hay Festivals in association with the British Council, and AHRC, celebrates... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-05-06 14:45:31 UTC ]
The bills propose to give elected parental review boards the power to decide which “age-appropriate" materials can be accessible to minors within a public library, with librarians who don’t comply with the board’s decisions subject to prison time. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-28 05:00:00 UTC ]
Cultural Cross Sections Alizah Holstein I stepped out of Keflavík airport at 4:30 a.m. Far off in the dimly lit parking lot was the bus to Reykjavík—parked, empty, still off-duty. Winds buffeted me from above, the cold air curling its way up my wrists and... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-12-03 17:31:19 UTC ]
In his op-ed for Forbes last year, Panos Mourdoukoutas, a professor of economics at LIU Post in New York, suggested that Amazon stores should replace libraries to save taxpayers money. Following the backlash this preposterous suggestion created, Forbes took the article down. But the outpouring... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-12 08:48:09 UTC ]
Among the week's headlines: Richard Ford is honored by the Library of Congress; Sari Feldman reflects on her career; and the 'random' things you can borrow from a public library. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-17 04:00:00 UTC ]