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Willa Cather will be the first Pulitzer Prize winner and the 12th woman represented in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Cather once said in an interview, “I had searched for books telling about the beauty of the country I loved, its romance, and heroism and strength and courage of its people that had been plowed into the very furrows of its soil, and I did not find them. And so I wrote ‘O Pioneers!.’
Michael Caine is becoming a debut novelist at age 90. "The actor...has long harboured the desire to write a thriller, and was inspired to do so by a news item, says his UK publisher, Hodder’s Rowena Webb, about 'the discovery of uranium by workers on a dump in London’s East End'."
#itsnevertoolate
A tribute to a century of filmmaking. Take a tour of the Warner Bros. prop archive.
What a cool librarian job!
After the judge dismissed Wallace, she turned to Heckel, who sat flanked by JCPS attorneys.
“I just want to say I’m so sorry you have to deal with this,” Leibson told Heckel. “I admire your courage. … I wish you had been my librarian when I was a kid.”
Heckel, a 22-year employee of JCPS, declined to be interviewed for this story. She did, however, offer a brief statement before the hearing.
“Books are mirrors and windows,” she told LPM News. “And any reader deserves the right to choose to see themself in what they read.”
Congratulations to Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned Team who defied rising book challenges by providing free ebook access to teens and young adults across the country.
“I see it every day,” said Mr. Santillano, 57, a former City Council member. “I see these kids hanging out, doing their homework, doing what they are supposed to be doing. If you take that away from them, you are pushing them to basically hang out in places where they are not supposed to. So instead of helping the community, you are pushing them away, to do crime and things like that.”
Why can’t both public services be important? The people who see the library only as a baby sitter really don’t understand its role and function in a community.
Giving thanks for the public libraries in our lives.
The conservation effort — informally named “The Great Decant” — started on April 1, when the first tome, Volume 1 of Reeves’s “History of English Law,” printed in London in 1869, was taken from its place on shelf 1.1., in the Long Room’s upper gallery, which is closed to tourists. The book was dusted with a specially modified vacuum cleaner, it was measured, its physical condition was noted, and its details were checked against the Long Room’s catalog, written in 1872.
The book was then labeled with a radio-frequency identification tag and put in a bar-coded box — the first of more than 700,000 books, manuscripts, busts and other artifacts that will be relocated from the Old Library to a climate-controlled, off-campus storage facility.
If you haven't seen the magnificent Long Room at Trinity College, go now. Starting in October 2023, it will be closed to the public for a three-year restoration project.
What many public libraries have done, despite Covid and because of it, is consciously enhance their physical presence on the street and in the neighborhood.
Why are writers so lazy with the librarian stereotypes? They should know better.
On March 25th the Ring of Power was destroyed, completing Frodo’s mission and defeating Sauron. Celebrate by reading some Tolkein. This year’s theme is Love and Friendship.
Happy Birthday to author Toni Morrison, born OTD in Lorain, OH. Nice to see she didn’t forget her local librarians. From a wonderful exhibit curated by Hilton Als celebrating her influence and legacy.
The rationale is simple: Fines and fees present a barrier to library use among the communities that need access most. They also contribute to material attrition, as a patron who can’t afford to pay the fine on a late item may not return it at all. While eliminating fines cuts a line item out of many libraries’ revenue, most have discovered that the loss could be absorbed—and that getting rid of fines raises circulation numbers, brings lapsed users back to the library, and boosts goodwill.
Kudos to librarian Bruce Janu for discovering the rare August 31, 1946 New Yorker issue that featured John Hersey's groundbreaking and devastating report on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Very few copies of the edition with the original band exist today, which is why, as Blume noted, it’s considered one of the “white whales” of the antiquarian-magazine world.
Libraries, sign up for today’s webinar to learn how you can get funding to promote vaccine confidence.
