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Tough call: Librarian to the President — or to Beyoncé?
I’m so lucky to have my dream job already. But if I was looking for a new dream job, I’d have a tough decision to make right now: librarian to the President — or librarian to Beyoncé? President:...
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They’re considered wise for a reason
“Hoo will be reading a good book today? Owl be reading a good book today!” Image: Vintage library ad, circa 1960
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Get a load of this
“Libraries will carry you through times of no money better than money will carry you through times of no libraries.” –Anne Herbert, American writer. (Anne Herbert also coined the phrase, “Practice...
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Across the ages
The world of books unfolds and endures across time and history — the collective knowledge of all human civilization — from the bronze age to the atomic age into the digital age and beyond. Image:...
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Do it today.
Did you know that people who read books in their free time are also more likely to attend a sports event? And readers are over two-and-a-half times more likely to volunteer in their community. Reading...
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Change is in the air
Image: Sign spotted at Pike Street Market, Seattle, during the American Library Association midwinter meeting, January 2013. Lately we’ve been seeing more and more common sense, passionate appeals in...
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Paradise found
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges Image: Vintage library ad, circa 1960
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No time like the present
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them...
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Branching out
The local newspaper reporter called me up earlier this week, wanting to do a story on our seed lending library. Already, I’m thrilled. So we talk for a while about the project, about libraries, about...
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More books in the home
“A house without books is like a room without windows.” ― Horace Mann [Image: Vintage Book Week poster, circa 1936]
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The republic of letters
Image: Weekes Branch Library, Hayward, Calif. “There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth...
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Tough call: Librarian to the President — or to Beyoncé?
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Good news for public libraries
With polling numbers like this, maybe public libraries should run for office! “This graphic highlights results from the Pew Internet & American Life Project survey, released December 2013. More...
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What I’m reading this week: “The Library Book,” by Susan Orlean
What I’m reading this week: “The Library Book,” by Susan Orlean It’s every librarian’s nightmare. A devastating loss to a vibrant city’s collective culture and memory. In 1986, the same week as the...
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