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Apr.22.2012
I spent yesterday afternoon hanging out with the reference librarian at Haverford Township Free Library in Pennsylvania. Although spending time at a library is not a new experience, this was a special event.
As a member of Sisters in Crime, an organization that promotes writers and...
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Apr.14.2012
More Latin and less Greek, I presume.
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Oxford, Vatican team up to digitize ancient texts
About one-third of the digitized texts will come from the Bodleian Library, seen here in March in Oxford, England, while the rest will come from the Vatican. (...
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Apr.13.2012
As a child, the most wonderful place to visit was not Disney World, but our public library.We were lucky to live minutes away from our large branch library. It was a modern marvel with a space age entrance, two levels, an art gallery, a small movie theatre, and most exciting for me...
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Apr.02.2012
Just down the coast from me, going south. Look out, Random House!
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Libraries boycott Random House over e-book prices
South Shore Public Libraries is boycotting Random House over unfair prices for e-books. (CBC)
Libraries on Nova Scotia's...
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Feb.09.2012
I came across a fascinating article on the Writers Forensic Blog, which not only provides some basic research for someone writing a crime or thriller novel but can also throw up ideas for plots and perhaps warn those using social networks to be a little bit more careful about what they post....
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Jan.23.2012
My first school visit of the new year was at Lowell Elementary in Long Beach, CA . . .
I taught a workshop there last year, and must not have been too weird because they invited me back!
Before the evening event, the authors/illustrators rendezvoused in the teacher's lounge . . ....
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Jan.12.2012
Too bad he had to die to get the honour, but it does give weight to his international standing. And there is nothing much more fitting for an author than to be recognized with a library.
Havel
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Paris to name library after Václav Havel
Paris is to honor iconic...
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Dec.03.2011
This story is just too good to be true - so it is more wonderful that it is true. If it has come to its end - well, that's wonderful, too.
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The Library Phantom Returns!
by ROBERT KRULWICH
He? She? It? Whoever it is, the Phantom Sculptor is suddenly...
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Oct.02.2011
Bicycles are important to me because I never had one when I was a kid. They still represent a part of growing up that feels deprived. True, the old Em and Pee always put food on the table, sometimes even on plates! We never wanted for the best frozen and canned processed foods the local supermarket...
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Sep.25.2011
One wonders how The Bible was ever allowed.
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Mark Twain story formally 'unbanned' in US
Eve's Diary, embargoed in 1906 over its illustrations, formally restored to library to launch Banned Books Week
by Alison Flood
Mark Twain: "The deep unconscious irony of it...
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